Ethical Leadership Behaviour Leadership behaviours set the tone for an organization and filter down to employees and out into the larger community (BuildingCapacity, 2013). As such, the moral implications that are associated with ethical leadership behaviours are significant. Lately, I have been focusing on the transformational servant leadership style, which by its very nature would […]
Hi Jason, Great article you wrote about ethical leadership. I thought you did a great job fleshing out key points of ethical leadership and how respect and servitude impact followers. I’d like to address the question you posted about how we feel when adding value to the lives of others from an ethical leadership standpoint. […]
Wang and Oh (2011), detail an abundance of practical research data that, for the most part, shows that transformational leaders have a strong, measurable ability to improve the performance of individual followers as well as a group. Transformational leaders are highly influential on their followers. Transformational leaders accomplish three things: They “motivate their followers to …
First, the moderately positive meta-analytic relationships of transformational leadership with various performance criteria across follower individual-, team, and organizational levels and various situations (e.g., study setting, leader level, geographic region) indicate that transformational leadership tends to be a robust predictor of desirable performance outcomes across situations (Bass, 1997). Thus, organizations need to pay particular attention […]
Monica, I really appreciated your articulation of the “ripple effects” on three different spheres of people. It is so important that we remember that our actions affect far more than those immediately around us. “Leadership involves influence” (Northouse, 2016, p…. Continue Reading →
According to Northouse (2016, p. 330), ethics in regards to leadership are concerned with who leaders are (their moral character) and what leaders do (their moral conduct). The choices that leaders make and their motives behind their choices are guided by their moral code and their ethics. There are multiple perspectives on how ethics influence […]
In the video titled, What is Ethical Leadership? (2013), the presenter describes the broad role that ethics plays upon an individual’s leadership behaviour, perspectives, choices and reasoning; however, since “people vary in their capacities for moral judgement and behaviour”, organizations particularly, need to signal their specific priorities for ethical behaviours through their leaders. Most specifically …
Summary Through the work of Colbert, Courtright, Oh, and Wang (2011) in their article Transformational leadership and performance across criteria and levels: A meta-analytic review of 25 years of research, it was discovered that transformational leadership has a positive correlation […]
Transformational leaders influence individuals, teams and their organization to achieve higher levels of performance through inspirational motivation, idealized influence, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration (Wang, Oh, Courtright, & Colbert, 2011). To maximize the influence and results leaders can have, it is essential leaders utilize these four behaviours. Bass (as cited in Wang et al., 2011) … Continue reading Unit 7 – Learning Activity 2
Moral implications of leadership behavior Ethical Leadership is concerned with what leaders do and who leaders are. It must be with the nature of leaders’ behaviour, and with their virtuousness (Northouse, 2019). The leader is responsible to set the tone of the organization (Building capacity, 2013). One is influential or famous doesn’t mean he is or […]