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Application of Ethical Leadership
Managers provide guidance on the direction an enterprise follows, and therefore, their moral standpoints must be consistent with the business objectives. Enterprise objectives stem from its values, vision, and core values. Leaders identify with the principles that adhere to the Code of Ethics of business operations. According to Arnold, Beauchamp, and Bowie (2019), ethical leaders conform to ethical standards established by society, thereby promoting the growth and success of a business enterprise. Conversely, an unethical leader chaperones the failure of accomplishing the goals of an enterprise. Unscrupulous leaders make decisions that result in losses in an enterprise hence the need for imparting ethical leadership values in management. Management that institutes an ethically stable framework establishes trust with its shareholders and consumer resulting in business prosperity.
During the medical poisoning crisis of Tylenol in 1982, James Burke led his company is creating trust with the Johnson and Johnson company. James portrayed honesty, and humanitarian actions are critical ethical traits. Burke illustrated honesty by taking all the medications off the market immediately and allowed press houses to cover company meetings (Burke, 2016). He was open with all stakeholders, including consumers, shareholders, and medical practitioners on the company loss, fatal cases, and procedures instituted to prevent such an event in the future. Burke preserved honesty with the shareholders and urged them to invest millions on product recall as an effort to save the character of the company. James Burke reveals his good ethical character trait by using The Credo that put the needs and safety of the consumers first. The Credo influenced establishing trust with the stakeholders while maintaining the brand and reputation of the company.
Individuals approach ethical issues via the responsibility lens or the relationship lens. Deontology defines an ethical approach that encompasses self-principles coupled with ensuing duties. Contrarily, consequentialist ethical theory views dilemma from the viewpoint of achieving excellent results. According to Zamir and Medina (2017), consequentialism is the only subject to gaining outcomes that are good irrespective of right or wrong moral actions. From a deontological outlook, disclosure of the likely side effects of the artificial joints is reasonable. The consequential ethical theory describes good ethics in leadership call for honesty, humanity, and delivery of value-based services and product.
Furthermore, it is only human to resonate with the feelings of the small percentage of unlucky patients with precipitating side effects. However, according to consequentialism, the nondisclosure agreement puts my job in the company in jeopardy. With such a standpoint, protecting my position in the company is paramount, and hence, disclosure of the lethal side effects of the artificial joints is inconceivable. Additionally, in the event of divulging information on the potentially fatal adverse effects of the artificial joint, the company would sue me due to breach of the nondisclosure agreement.
The action that considers the greater good of society uses cognitive moral development under post convectional. More precisely, such an operation takes from the sixth stage termed as universal principles in the post-convectional morality. This action considers and respects the needs of diverse people in society without implicating personal viewpoints. According to Kipper (2017), fear of revealing information due to possible bad repercussions such as getting unemployed applies the pre-conventional moral standpoint. This because the individual only focusses on avoiding punishment and being obedient under the first stage of the pre-convectional level. Action that involves a long-held belief in the precept of justice describes the social contract and personal rights in the post-convectional level of morality. In a dilemma, the individual comprehends that the rules are not comprehensive. The action of considering the law places one in stage four and convectional virtue when handling ethical dilemmas because the individual compares his activity with the law and strives to avoid guilt. The act of keeping quiet as an aim of gaining reward also describes stage two or pre-conventional morality because the individual seeks approval from others, and his actions aim at finding rewards from the company.
A centered perspective of the Ethical Lens Inventory describes a situation that balances between equity and autonomy of individuals in society. The action of placing no preference on either defending people at the expense of the community as a whole. Furthermore, relationship and responsibility lenses are balanced. However, choosing the best choice of the two value lenses assist in efficient dilemma resolution. The responsibility lens defines personal principles that other people conform to or disagree with them. Establishing relationships within the society and empowering people in need represents the relationship lens.
In my work environment, I tend to align with the decision of the group rather than my ideas. I work effectively and productively in a group that communicates, uses decisions that represent each member, and focus on team building. For instance, situations that do not call for colleague’s opinions, I find myself consulting team members, primarily when the decision affects them. I ensure that each individual treated equally. I social settings such as playing games, I tend to form relationships with individuals of a group and align with decisions that in the interest of every group member. For instance is a situation where I witness a person of Middle East origin being denied services at a shop, would result in me protecting and channeling the rights of the minority customer. I would call out the shopkeeper for ethnocultural discrimination to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
I prefer applying the relationship lens when working. I put the needs of other people and my colleagues first before addressing my issues. I seek opinions from fellow workers and fellow members, especially on decisions that affect them. The case scenarios, as a sales representative, I owe it to society to make them aware and protect them from harm. Sensibility thinking and necessary human instinct call for the divulgence of information about the lethal side effects of the artificial joints. I associate closely with my company’s shareholders, consumers, and stakeholders, such as medical personnel and the potential impact of the product. I dissociate myself with the company to make a sensible decision and eliminate biases.
My values and virtues include delivery of honesty, equality, sensibility, respect, acting humanely, team building, building initiative, value awareness, non-tolerance to ethical violations, value-driven action, and justice. The fundamental values include equality, working humanely, sensibility, respect, and non-tolerant to ethical breaches. My primary values constitute equality and adherence to the Code of Ethics with a classical virtue of sensibility. My two core principles and virtue are under the three of my dominant five values of Clarifying individual values. I will focus on the delivery of services and products with the utmost honesty, equality, and sensibility to the company’s stakeholders, comprehending the gravity of my decisions. These values aim at ensuring that conformity to the rules and regulations occurs. I focus on the well-being of the community that constitutes the stakeholders of my employer.
Furthermore, sensibility, as my core value, aims at examining situations and dilemmas individually according to their context. Fortitude is my classical virtue since I am determined to face any repercussions that follow once I leak out information on the dire lethal side effects of the artificial joint. Additionally, asking my colleagues how they would handle the dilemma indicates my urgencies to get acumens on an issue, foster relationships, and appreciate their decisions by incorporating it on how I would manage the difficulty.
My blind spot stems from focusing solely on community needs and leaving myself in the open. The action of releasing information that protects the stakeholders of the medical device company exposes me to potentially becoming unemployed. By focusing on achieving justice and impartiality for society, I may end up ignoring the needs of the company shareholders and employees. My decision acts in the best interest of the customers but may result in the closure of the medical device company. Furthermore, the action may cause the firing of employees in the company and shareholders incurring losses.
Before leaking information on the potential side effects of the artificial joints, I would seek advice from colleagues on how to handle the dilemma ethically. I would also, in part, involve management and explore on status of processing the difficulty before taking action of releasing the information. With the core values and virtues centered on justice and honesty, equality, sensibility, and grit, I would ensure that all the stakeholders of the medical device company are in consideration.
An ethical lens is a tool that nurtures exemplary decision-making in the event of crisis and awareness. In part, the ethical lens will improve moral agility and maturity in handling perspectives. These principles will shape my leadership skills and guide my subordinates to realize success and growth in business. I aim at bridging the gap between companies and stakeholders by establishing trust, teamwork, and conformity to the Code of Ethics. The Ethical Lens Initiative will assist me in making informed future decisions via using the responsibility reputation, results, and relationship lenses. I would, therefore, exercise all the power vested in me in line with the relationship lens, primary values, and virtues. Using the relationship lens, equality, and courage, I will uphold the interest of the community by exposing the artificial joints potential side effects publicly. I would inquire for direction from my colleagues and asses their point of view to inform my decisions. These core values will enable me to act rationally and be self-aware in the prevailing situations, whether as an employee or a manager in a company.
Ethical lenses will assist me in choosing virtues that are essential for my professional life. Aligning and listing my values according to their level of importance will aid in selecting the right profession that suits my moral stance. Furthermore, the ethical lens tool will encourage me to use my moral compass in making day-to-day decisions that solve ethical dilemmas. The ethical lens tool assists me in identifying the most probable challenges and difficulties I might face in my profession, blind spots, and weaknesses and hence, allow me to prepare adequately. Preparation and using my moral compass effectively will assist in handling challenges and dilemmas with ease, incurring less damage, and frustrations. The moral compass and ethical lens will help me identify role models and become a mentee to other, less experienced employees.
Ethical application in leadership involves the identification of individual values that provide on with perspective on how to run an enterprise effectively. These values must conform to both the characters of the institution and the Code of Ethics. Therefore, leaders should aim at attaining a centered perspective in the Ethical Lens Initiative, balancing off responsibility and relationship. Furthermore, the assessment of these perspectives for blind spots and double standards aids in imparting agility and maturity in ethical issues. Every company should strive to employ managers that conform to the Code of Ethics and influence personnel to attain its goals.
References
Arnold, D. G., Beauchamp, T. L., & Bowie, N. E. (2019). Ethical theory and business. Cambridge University Press.
Burke, R. J. (2016). Corporate reputations: Development, maintenance, change and repair. In Corporate Reputation (pp. 19-59). Routledge.
Kipper, K. (2017). A Neo-Kohlbergian approach to moral character: the moral reasoning of Alfred Herrhausen. Journal of Global Responsibility.
Zamir, E., & Medina, B. (2017). Deontological Morality and Economic Analysis of Law.
st with the stakeholders while maintaining the brand and reputation of the company.
Individuals approach ethical issues via the responsibility lens or the relationship lens. Deontology defines an ethical approach that encompasses self-principles coupled with ensuing duties. Contrarily, consequentialist ethical theory views dilemma from the viewpoint of achieving excellent results. According to Zamir and Medina (2017), consequentialism is the only subject to gaining outcomes that are good irrespective of right or wrong moral actions. From a deontological outlook, disclosure of the likely side effects of the artificial joints is reasonable. The consequential ethical theory describes good ethics in leadership call for honesty, humanity, and delivery of value-based services and product.
Furthermore, it is only human to resonate with the feelings of the small percentage of unlucky patients with precipitating side effects. However, according to consequentialism, the nondisclosure agreement puts my job in the company in jeopardy. With such a standpoint, protecting my position in the company is paramount, and hence, disclosure of the lethal side effects of the artificial joints is inconceivable. Additionally, in the event of divulging information on the potentially fatal adverse effects of the artificial joint, the company would sue me due to breach of the nondisclosure agreement.
The action that considers the greater good of society uses cognitive moral development under post convectional. More precisely, such an operation takes from the sixth stage termed as universal principles in the post-convectional morality. This action considers and respects the needs of diverse people in society without implicating personal viewpoints. According to Kipper (2017), fear of revealing information due to possible bad repercussions such as getting unemployed applies the pre-conventional moral standpoint. This because the individual only focusses on avoiding punishment and being obedient under the first stage of the pre-convectional level. Action that involves a long-held belief in the precept of justice describes the social contract and personal rights in the post-convectional level of morality. In a dilemma, the individual comprehends that the rules are not comprehensive. The action of considering the law places one in stage four and convectional virtue when handling ethical dilemmas because the individual compares his activity with the law and strives to avoid guilt. The act of keeping quiet as an aim of gaining reward also describes stage two or pre-conventional morality because the individual seeks approval from others, and his actions aim at finding rewards from the company.
A centered perspective of the Ethical Lens Inventory describes a situation that balances between equity and autonomy of individuals in society. The action of placing no preference on either defending people at the expense of the community as a whole. Furthermore, relationship and responsibility lenses are balanced. However, choosing the best choice of the two value lenses assist in efficient dilemma resolution. The responsibility lens defines personal principles that other people conform to or disagree with them. Establishing relationships within the society and empowering people in need represents the relationship lens.
In my work environment, I tend to align with the decision of the group rather than my ideas. I work effectively and productively in a group that communicates, uses decisions that represent each member, and focus on team building. For instance, situations that do not call for colleague’s opinions, I find myself consulting team members, primarily when the decision affects them. I ensure that each individual treated equally. I social settings such as playing games, I tend to form relationships with individuals of a group and align with decisions that in the interest of every group member. For instance is a situation where I witness a person of Middle East origin being denied services at a shop, would result in me protecting and channeling the rights of the minority customer. I would call out the shopkeeper for ethnocultural discrimination to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
I prefer applying the relationship lens when working. I put the needs of other people and my colleagues first before addressing my issues. I seek opinions from fellow workers and fellow members, especially on decisions that affect them. The case scenarios, as a sales representative, I owe it to society to make them aware and protect them from harm. Sensibility thinking and necessary human instinct call for the divulgence of information about the lethal side effects of the artificial joints. I associate closely with my company’s shareholders, consumers, and stakeholders, such as medical personnel and the potential impact of the product. I dissociate myself with the company to make a sensible decision and eliminate biases.
My values and virtues include delivery of honesty, equality, sensibility, respect, acting humanely, team building, building initiative, value awareness, non-tolerance to ethical violations, value-driven action, and justice. The fundamental values include equality, working humanely, sensibility, respect, and non-tolerant to ethical breaches. My primary values constitute equality and adherence to the Code of Ethics with a classical virtue of sensibility. My two core principles and virtue are under the three of my dominant five values of Clarifying individual values. I will focus on the delivery of services and products with the utmost honesty, equality, and sensibility to the company’s stakeholders, comprehending the gravity of my decisions. These values aim at ensuring that conformity to the rules and regulations occurs. I focus on the well-being of the community that constitutes the stakeholders of my employer.
Furthermore, sensibility, as my core value, aims at examining situations and dilemmas individually according to their context. Fortitude is my classical virtue since I am determined to face any repercussions that follow once I leak out information on the dire lethal side effects of the artificial joint. Additionally, asking my colleagues how they would handle the dilemma indicates my urgencies to get acumens on an issue, foster relationships, and appreciate their decisions by incorporating it on how I would manage the difficulty.
My blind spot stems from focusing solely on community needs and leaving myself in the open. The action of releasing information that protects the stakeholders of the medical device company exposes me to potentially becoming unemployed. By focusing on achieving justice and impartiality for society, I may end up ignoring the needs of the company shareholders and employees. My decision acts in the best interest of the customers but may result in the closure of the medical device company. Furthermore, the action may cause the firing of employees in the company and shareholders incurring losses.
Before leaking information on the potential side effects of the artificial joints, I would seek advice from colleagues on how to handle the dilemma ethically. I would also, in part, involve management and explore on status of processing the difficulty before taking action of releasing the information. With the core values and virtues centered on justice and honesty, equality, sensibility, and grit, I would ensure that all the stakeholders of the medical device company are in consideration.
An ethical lens is a tool that nurtures exemplary decision-making in the event of crisis and awareness. In part, the ethical lens will improve moral agility and maturity in handling perspectives. These principles will shape my leadership skills and guide my subordinates to realize success and growth in business. I aim at bridging the gap between companies and stakeholders by establishing trust, teamwork, and conformity to the Code of Ethics. The Ethical Lens Initiative will assist me in making informed future decisions via using the responsibility reputation, results, and relationship lenses. I would, therefore, exercise all the power vested in me in line with the relationship lens, primary values, and virtues. Using the relationship lens, equality, and courage, I will uphold the interest of the community by exposing the artificial joints potential side effects publicly. I would inquire for direction from my colleagues and asses their point of view to inform my decisions. These core values will enable me to act rationally and be self-aware in the prevailing situations, whether as an employee or a manager in a company.
Ethical lenses will assist me in choosing virtues that are essential for my professional life. Aligning and listing my values according to their level of importance will aid in selecting the right profession that suits my moral stance. Furthermore, the ethical lens tool will encourage me to use my moral compass in making day-to-day decisions that solve ethical dilemmas. The ethical lens tool assists me in identifying the most probable challenges and difficulties I might face in my profession, blind spots, and weaknesses and hence, allow me to prepare adequately. Preparation and using my moral compass effectively will assist in handling challenges and dilemmas with ease, incurring less damage, and frustrations. The moral compass and ethical lens will help me identify role models and become a mentee to other, less experienced employees.
Ethical application in leadership involves the identification of individual values that provide on with perspective on how to run an enterprise effectively. These values must conform to both the characters of the institution and the Code of Ethics. Therefore, leaders should aim at attaining a centered perspective in the Ethical Lens Initiative, balancing off responsibility and relationship. Furthermore, the assessment of these perspectives for blind spots and double standards aids in imparting agility and maturity in ethical issues. Every company should strive to employ managers that conform to the Code of Ethics and influence personnel to attain its goals.
References
Arnold, D. G., Beauchamp, T. L., & Bowie, N. E. (2019). Ethical theory and business. Cambridge University Press.
Burke, R. J. (2016). Corporate reputations: Development, maintenance, change and repair. In Corporate Reputation (pp. 19-59). Routledge.
Kipper, K. (2017). A Neo-Kohlbergian approach to moral character: the moral reasoning of Alfred Herrhausen. Journal of Global Responsibility.
Zamir, E., & Medina, B. (2017). Deontological Morality and Economic Analysis of Law.