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Ethical Leadership

Ethical Leadership. Summer 2012. What Are Ethics?. How Does Ethical Leadership Look?. Are there personal characteristics? Are there specific actions? Who leads ethically? How can you tell? Are there ethical companies? Are there ethical people?

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Ethical Leadership

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  1. Ethical Leadership Summer 2012

  2. What Are Ethics?

  3. How Does Ethical Leadership Look? • Are there personal characteristics? • Are there specific actions? • Who leads ethically? • How can you tell? • Are there ethical companies? • Are there ethical people? • Do ethics change depending on the situation? • Can a person’s ethics change?

  4. What Do These Have in Common • Alcoa • American Express • Best Buy Co., • CH2M Hill • Colgate-Palmolive • Costco • Electrolux • Ford Motor Company • Gap, Inc • Kellogg Company • L’ORÉAL • Microsoft • National Australia Bank • Northumbrian Water Group • Panama Canal Authority • Patagonia • PepsiCo • Portugal Telecom • Starbucks • UPS

  5. 2012 World’s Most Ethical Companies* • Companies must apply to be rated • Questionnaire is online • Verification of materials submitted • Determines a corporate Ethics Quotient • Process was vetted and refined by experts • Ethisphere has a network of advisors • Five core categories: • Ethics & Compliance Program (25%) • Reputation, Leadership, & Innovation (20%) • Governance (10%) • Corporate Citizenship & Responsibility (25%) • Culture of Ethics (20%) *According to Ethispere: www.ethisphere.com/wme

  6. Are There Types of Ethics? • Meta-ethics: Understanding of right and wrong • Virtue ethics: Driving force behind ethical behavior (think of Socrates & Aristotle) • Epicurean ethics: Pleasure coincides with virtue • Normative (moral) ethics: What makes things right and wrong • Stoicism: Contentment & peace are the greatest good • Utilitarianism: Most good for the most people

  7. Are There Types of Ethics? • Consequentialism: The results form the basis for action • State consequentialism: Moral worth and contributions to the state form the basis • Deontological ethics: Goodness of the acts or intentions as they relate to rules (opposite above) • Pragmatic ethics: Moral correctness & scientific knowledge • Relational ethics: With studies, respect for thos that are being studies

  8. Are There Types of Ethics? • Evolutionary ethics: Considers the role of evolution • Descriptive ethics: Sociological perspective looking at top-down perspective using ethical codes of behavior • Military ethics: To guide those in the service • Public service ethics: For making decisions when dealing with the public • Situational ethics: Change depending on the situation

  9. What does this mean?

  10. Let’s Imagine

  11. How do you get out? What do you do? How do you make sense of anything?

  12. Let’s Imagine the Cars are Ethical Decisions

  13. You Need An Ethical Model Let’s use Walter Earl Fluker’s Model

  14. The Ethical Leadership Model

  15. Self - Character • Integrity • A healthy sense of self • Knowing what you value and believe • Behaving in accordance with those values • Empathy • Emotional intelligence • Being able to understand and connect • Hope • Confidence in the future • Belief that life is reliable

  16. Social - Civility • Recognition • Of self and others • Involves reflection and observation • Not mirroring or masking • Respect • Accepted standards of association • Social dignity • Reverence • Loyalty

  17. Spirit - Community • Courage • Knowing what to fear or not fear • Balancing between them • Justice • Sense of fairness • Inclusive and dynamic • Compassion • The willingness to understand others • Willingness to suffer with others

  18. The Ethical Leadership Model

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