Ethical

leadership
Prepared by:
NORHATAH P. PANONTONGAN

Scaling the Heights of Flexible Learning

 Centrality of Ethics to
Leadership
LEADERSHIP
INFLUENCES COMMON GOAL
 LEADERS

Ethical Responsibility

Dignity Respect
 ETHICS

Central to Leadership
establish helps reinforce

Organizational Values
Leaders

Agenda
A series of beliefs
proposals
values
ideas
issues
Ethics is central

leadership
nature of the process of influence
accomplishing mutual goals
Impact have on the organizational values
Prominent Leadership
Scholars

Ronald Heifetz James MacGregor Burn

 Heifetz’s Perspective on Ethical Leadership
Unique approach Ethical Leadership
Leaders help followers
confront conflict
address conflict by effecting changes.

values leadership Ethical perspective

workers
organization
use of authority addresses the values
and community
 leader to provide

nurturance
“holding trust
environment”

empathy
Leaders use authority
to get people to pay attention to the issues
to act as a reality test regarding information
to manage and frame issues
to orchestrate conflicting perspectives
to facilitate decision making
 The
leader’s
duties

assist
change
SRUGGLING
personal growth
the follower
 Burns’s Perspective on Ethical
Leadership
transformational leadership leaders

followers to engage themselves with followers

needs, values, and morals help them in their personal struggles regarding
conflicting values.
Leadership
raises the level of morality in both the leader and the
moral dimension
follower
responsibility of the leader
help followers assess their own
values needs
a higher level of functioning
stress values
liberty, justice, and equality
It has raised many questions
How do you choose what a better set of moral values is?
Who is to say that some decisions represent
higher moral ground than others?
If leadership, by definition, entails raising individual
moral functioning, does this mean that the leadership of
corrupt leaders is not actually leadership?
His writing has placed ethics at the forefront
of scholarly discussions of what leadership
means and how leadership should be carried
out.
 The Dark Side of Leadership
the destructive and toxic a leader uses leadership for personal ends
toxic leaders by destructive behaviors
Destructive leadership

lack of integrity leaving their followers

negatively related
insatiable ambition violating the basic
arrogance
human
rights of others
followers’ attitudes toward their jobs
reckless disregard
for their actions playing to followers’ and toward their organization as a
basest fears whole.
The Toxic Triangle

Destructive leaders

Susceptible Conducive
followers
environment
Advantages of Ethical Leadership
1. Ensure you are following the law
legal guidelines that dictates each decision making
2. Helps to create a healthier workplace culture
creates an environment where worker knows they will
treated with respect
3. Creates an emphasis on being conscientious
leader must have strong moral identity
4. Creates a workplace that is inclusive
EL is naturally inclusive
5. creates a culture of accountability
you do what you say you are going to do, or you make it right if you do not.
6. it seeks to minimize harm
an emphasis on equality is always present
7. creates a workplace that is consistent
consistent to be effective
8. allows problems to be reported quicker
issues that might not be arise to become points for discussion between direct reports and
leaders are more often brought up here
 Disadvantages of Ethical Leadership
1. Requires comprehensive support to be effective
Everyone should be on the same page

2. Costly to implement
The policies of an ethics program must be continually to renewed and
updated
3. It may have multiple definition
Each person have their own set of ethics that they believe morally correct
4. Requires consistency without fails
People must match up their moral definition to their responsibilities
5. It is dependent upon the leaders to influence others
Some workers may trust their leaders to an unhealthy extent

6. It requires clarity at all times

there is no room for confusion. communication must be open and
honest without exception
Servant-leadership is more than a
concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by
which I also mean an ethical leader of
any group, will see herself or himself as a
servant of that group and will act
accordingly- M. Scott Peck-
THANK YOU!!!