LEADERSHIP AND ETHICS
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Week 4_Exercise 4.2 Leadership and Ethics
Scenario 1
Territory dispute between countries is an issue experience in several countries in Africa. They are boundary disagreements about possession of materials between two or more countries. Territorial disputes happen due to conflicting material claims such as land, energy sources and water, which can cause dire consequences. As a country leader, it is wise to establish measures to deal with such issues when they arise.
As a leader, I would need advice on how to save the hostage and solve the territorial issue to avoid causing deaths. To solve boundary conflict, a leader should involve relevant union to influence and help resolve territorial boundary disputes (Ciulla et al., 2018, p. 245). In this case, one country has already gone the extra mile to take over a school and threaten to kill hostages unless the leader agrees to give up the territorial claims. It can result in war between the two countries; therefore, the leaders should participate in peace works to prevent the situation from escalating to wars which will cause more harm than good between the countries.
Seeking arbitration services from the relevant organization will help the leader find hostages safely and bring the two countries together to resolve their issues following the legal principles of dispute resolution rather than resulting in untheological strategies (Kalshoven, & Taylor 2020, p. 2). Also, leaders should solve border conflicts using ethical measures, making sure the people caught between such conflicts are safe. The safety of the citizen is one of the significant roles of leaders; therefore, they should enhance people security a priority.
Scenario 2
Medical error is a severe issue problem which is among the leading cause of death all over the world. It is challenging to uncover and hard to provide a consistent way to reduce the chances of happening. Therefore, the medical director should make it a priority to improve patient care through adequate clinical care (Rothman, 2016, p. 218). Medical care providers should learn from their mistakes and work towards enhancing patient safety by preventing errors that cause death. As a new leader in a National Health Service organization, I can reduce scathing report into avoidable deaths by creating a work culture that aims to implement patient safety at all cost. Therefore, all deaths arising from preventable circumstances mostly due to medical error of omission or commission are reviewed to encourage minimization of medical error by the staff (Emmerich, 2018, p. 9). To achieve this, I need to hire educated, qualified, and experienced medics who use evidence-based practice to make sure medical errors are reduced to ensure avoidable deaths are reduced.
Also, developing a standard vocabulary is crucial to help understand how avoidable death occurs and how medical practitioners work to avoid penalties. Therefore preventable errors should be considered, and practitioners should learn improvement services such as adequate measure for disease prevention and therapeutic services (Ciulla, 2018, p. 108). As a medical practitioner, I would encourage and mobilize the community against behaviours that increase mortality rate such as reducing smoking, preventing overweight health issues and, hypertension which re manageable to prevent avoidable deaths. As a medical director addressing these issues will enhance health among the population and in case of an illness, the probability of reducing and avoiding adverse health consequences.
Scenario 3
Many businesses fail due to poor management, recessions, and lack of adequate funds and insufficient decision making, which affects the operations of a business. A business owner can identify signs that show industry is figuring and take the necessary measure to make sure the employees are not caught up between the business struggles. As an investigator, the question would ask included relevant document to show the fall of the business (Ciulla, 2018, p. 108). The issue that might arise from the investigation consists of what the problem with the company is and how the business problem began. Also, I would collect relevant information to be able to learn how the business collapse happened. The former business owner did not consider ethical issues when dealing with the employees. Instead, he only thought himself but not the employees. Owners are leaders who should be competent in their leadership and exercise ethics, especially to the employees to avoid business failure.
Business failure in this scenario has resulted in financial failures due to substantial depth which has created a significant balance in the employees’ pension funds. The upcoming issue is that the previous owner who resulted in the organization problem paid himself without considering the employees (Roque et al., 020, p. 5). As an investigator, a question such as the provision of a report on how the borrowed money was spent. It is crucial to identify whether the money was misused, which results in employees losing their pension and the possibility of losing their job. Also, the owner should explain the leading cause of business failure, which affected the business resulting in inadequate fund management. Also, the investigators consider the implications of poor management by the owner, which contributed to the business downfall.
References
Ciulla, J.B., 2018. Leadership and ethics: you can run, but you cannot hide from the humanities. In What’s Wrong With Leadership?: Improving Leadership Research and Practice (pp. 107-120). Taylor and Francis.
Ciulla, J.B., Knights, D., Mabey, C. and Tomkins, L., 2018. Guest Editors’ Introduction: Philosophical Approaches to Leadership Ethics II: Perspectives on the Self and Responsibility to Others. Business Ethics Quarterly, 28(3), pp.245-250.
Emmerich, N., 2018. Leadership in palliative medicine: moral, ethical and educational. BMC medical ethics, 19(1), pp.1-11.
Kalshoven, K. and Taylor, S., 2018. Leadership: Philosophical perspectives and qualitative analysis of ethics—Looking back, looking forward, looking around. Journal of Business Ethics, 148(1), pp.1-3.
Roque, A., Moreira, J.M., Figueiredo, J.D., Albuquerque, R. and Gonçalves, H., 2020. Ethics beyond leadership: can ethics survive bad leadership?. Journal of Global Responsibility, pp. 2-7.
Rothman, D.J., 2016. Professional medical associations and Divestiture from industry: an ethical imperative for pain Society leadership. Pain Medicine, 17(2), p.218.