Ethical Leadership
Leadership has different meanings for everyone. It's generally defined as one who exerts themselves with more influence within a group than anyone else at a particular time. There is no one individual who operates best within all situations or all groups. There are some leaders who are successful and others who fail. There are different kinds of leaders because there are different demands for leadership. This paper will look at a huge company scandal and explain what's needed for effective leadership in a business. It will also discuss a few different types of leadership such as; transactional, transformational, servant, and laissez faire. The paper will conclude with describing the relationship between leadership effectiveness, job satisfaction,
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Lying, which one can reasonably assert is unethical is the standard operating procedure often practiced by many sales leaders, political leaders and business leaders. Unethical behavior is today but one tool in the arsenal of many that leaders use in the world to accomplish goals. Since, there is no general theory of ethical leadership, there isn't much research or solid evidence that shows that ethical behavior produces superior "leadership results" in the long term or the short term. And as long as we define "leadership results" as success and do not monitor or analyze the underlying leadership behavior in terms of whether it was ethical or not, we can never show statistically that ethical behavior is a superior result producer than unethical …show more content…
Active Management by Exception is to influence behavior, the leader actively monitors the work performed and uses corrective methods to ensure the work is completed to meet accepted standards.
4. Laissez-Faire Leadership is the leader that's indifferent and has a "hands-off approach toward the workers and their performance. This leader ignores the needs of others, does not respond to problems or does not monitor performance.
Transactional leadership behavior is used to one degree or another by most leaders. A leader should not exclusively or primarily practice transactional leadership behavior to influence others. However you have some that use it as a tool to manipulate others for personal gain. This type of leadership seeks to influence others by exchanging work for wages, but it does not build on the worker's need for meaningful work or tap into their creativity. The most effective and beneficial leadership behavior to achieve long-term success and improved performance is transformational leadership.
Whereas transformational leadership has more of a selling style, transactional leadership, once the contract is in place, takes a telling style.
Transformational
Lying, which one can reasonably assert is unethical is the standard operating procedure often practiced by many sales leaders, political leaders and business leaders. Unethical behavior is today but one tool in the arsenal of many that leaders use in the world to accomplish goals. Since, there is no general theory of ethical leadership, there isn't much research or solid evidence that shows that ethical behavior produces superior "leadership results" in the long term or the short term. And as long as we define "leadership results" as success and do not monitor or analyze the underlying leadership behavior in terms of whether it was ethical or not, we can never show statistically that ethical behavior is a superior result producer than unethical …show more content…
Active Management by Exception is to influence behavior, the leader actively monitors the work performed and uses corrective methods to ensure the work is completed to meet accepted standards.
4. Laissez-Faire Leadership is the leader that's indifferent and has a "hands-off approach toward the workers and their performance. This leader ignores the needs of others, does not respond to problems or does not monitor performance.
Transactional leadership behavior is used to one degree or another by most leaders. A leader should not exclusively or primarily practice transactional leadership behavior to influence others. However you have some that use it as a tool to manipulate others for personal gain. This type of leadership seeks to influence others by exchanging work for wages, but it does not build on the worker's need for meaningful work or tap into their creativity. The most effective and beneficial leadership behavior to achieve long-term success and improved performance is transformational leadership.
Whereas transformational leadership has more of a selling style, transactional leadership, once the contract is in place, takes a telling style.
Transformational