ETHICAL LEADERSHIP

BY : ROHAN LAL
Mohammad Ali Jinnah University
What is Ethical Leaders?
 Ethical Leadership:
 Acting from the morals and values concerned with the
virtuousness of leaders and the nature of their behavior
and motives.
 The choices leaders make and how they respond in a given
circumstance are informed and directed by their ethics.
Become an Ethical Leader.
Follow these 5 principles:

The framework 
1. Respect Others:

 Empower others and let your subordinates be themselves

creativity.
 Give credit to everyone’s ideas.
 Listen to your subordinates.
 Be empathetic.
 Be tolerant to opposing points of view.
2. Serve Others:
 Contribute to the greater good of others.
 Service behavior includes:
a) Mentoring
b) Empower Others
c) Team Building
3. Show Justice:
 Treat subordinates equally
 Fairness should be main priority in decision making.
 Be clear about rules for distributing rewards. No favorites. Always
be fair.
4. Be Honest:
 Always tell the truth
 Be open with others and represent reality exactly the way it is.
 Do not promise something that you cannot do.
 Do not misrepresent something.
 Do not silence your obligations.
5. Build Community:
 Influence others to reach common goal.
 Attend to more than just the leaders and followers goal.
Also attend to the community’s goal and purpose.
 An Ethical Leader is concerned with the common good, in the
broadest sense.
Morality is important!
 A leader should limit the amount of incentives to get their
subordinates to do something.
 Excessive reliance on incentives demoralizes professional
activity
 Causes people to lose moral and it causes activity to lose morality
How to maintain ethical approaches in
Higher Education and elsewhere by:

 Celebrate everyone on your team who displays morality.

 Always consider the entire community (campus or department)
when a decision is made.
 Always get to know who you are working with and develop trust
within each other.