Leadership Ethics and The Role of Values and Ethics at Work Part I

Leadership Ethics
and the Role of

Values and Ethics
at Work Part I
Lecture 5
DUM2062: EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP

Presented by: Lt Col Assoc Prof Ajaya Kumar (Ret)
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Learning Objectives
Know the importance of ethics at work.
Identify the levels and stages of moral
development.
Understand why leadership by values is
important.
Describe the values that guide you in moral
dilemmas.
Know the role of the leader in setting the
moral tone and ethical climate of the
workplace.
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Leadership Ethics cont

Heifetzs theory - leadership involves the
use of authority to help followers uphold
important values in the workplace.
Burnss theory - theory of transformational
leadership emphasizes the moral
development of followers and maintaining
high standards of ethical conduct.
Greenleafs theory - approach to
leadership has strong ethical overtones, with
the central premise being that true
leadership is service to others.
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Leadership Ethics
Ethics
Philosophy concerned with the intent,
means, and consequences of moral
behavior.
The study of moral judgments and right
and wrong conduct.
Moral judgments
Judgments about what is right or
wrong, good or bad.
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Ethics
Refers to a persons fundamental
orientation toward life (originated
from Greek word ethos).
During Roman times, emphasis
shifted to overt behavioracts,
habits, and customs
Today, ethics is viewed as an overall
human concern
in whole or part.
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Moral Dilemma
Moral Dilemma 2
The friend. You promise to keep your
best friends secret; then she tells
you that her son is selling drugs and
even has sold them at a nearby
grade school. Your friend is upset but
plans on taking no action. What
would you do?
A. Notify authorities
B. Keep friends secret.
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No Easy Subject
Ethics is a difficult subject;
forcing people to think about moral
issues
Current questions people face:
The conscious creation of new forms of
life
Exploration and use of outer space
Nuclear energy
Information technology
in whole or part.
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No Easy Subject cont

Common ethical problems in the
workplace:
Quality, safety, property, human
relationships
Leaders must understand and make

judgments on these subjects
in whole or part.
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The Roots of Ethics

Religious ethics:
Based on a theistic understanding of
the world
What is real, true, and good is defined
by God
Secular ethics:
Based on scientific understanding of the
world
Reality, truth, and goodness do not
depend on the existence of a god
in whole or part.
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The Secular Tradition

Aristotle shaped the ethics of
Western civilization from a
secular orientation:
Humans are rational
Rationality is the most significant trait
distinguishing humans from other
creatures
Good person:
Lives rationally
Moral judgments are born of
contemplation and reason
in whole or part.
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Ethics, Humankind, and

Other Animals
Ethics is a concern unique to

humankind
People combine emotion with
knowledge and through abstract
reasoning produce a moral
conscience
Right and wrong have pre-human
origins
Self-sacrifice, sympathy, and
cooperation are seen in other
species
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in whole or part.
Moral Development
John Locke
A newborn child is a blank tablet on
which a life script can be written
Experience and learning shapes the
content, structure, and direction of a
persons life
An infants ethics are amoral
No concept of good or bad, right or wrong
in whole or part.
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Moral Development cont

Babies rewarded and punished
develop:
An understanding of good or bad
A social conscience that is the foundation
for future moral development
The older community passes on

ethics to youth:
Words and actions reinforce morality
Ben Franklin said, Teach children
obedience first, so that all other lessons
in whole or part.
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Moral Development cont

Heteronomy
Rules as sacred laws laid down by
authorities
Unifying factor in adult society
Every society has leaders who believe in
certain moral ideals
Their task to imprint these ideals on
succeeding generations
in whole or part.
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Influences on Character
Formation
Associations
Family, friends, and role models shape
our lives
Books
Printed page and other media can
poison or enlighten us
Self-concept
Primary motivation is preservation of
symbolic self
in whole or part.
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Levels of Morality
Preconventional
individual is aware of cultural
prescriptions of right and wrong
behavior
Conventional
characterized by group conformity and
allegiance to authority
Postconventional
individual is concerned with right and
wrong conduct over and above selfinterest
in whole or part.
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Levels of Morality cont

People go through the six
stages of moral development at
different rates
Some people never reach the principled
morality of stages 5 and 6
People who remain at low levels of
morality experience arrested
developmental integrity
in whole or part.
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Levels of Morality cont

Egocentric orientation (stages 1 & 2)
Preadolescent children
Community-oriented morality (stages

3 & 4)
Teenagers and most adults
Self-direction and high principles

(stages 5 & 6)
Characteristic of only 20% of adults
High morality (stage 6)

Characteristic of only 5 to 10% of adults
in whole or part.
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The Stolen Drug Example

A woman was near death
The pharmacist was charging 10 times
what her needed drug should cost
Her husband did not have the money
The pharmacist was firm on his price
Moral dilemma: let wife die or
steal the drug
The husband stole the drug
Was he right or wrong?
in whole or part.
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Levels of Morality in History

Nazi Death Camps
Adolf Eichmann, I carried out my orders
Level II, Stage 4 moral reasoning
Civil Disobedience
Mohandas Gandhi, life and teaching
Level III, Stage 6 morality
Socrates
Refused to admit social wrong, committed
suicide, and became a moral hero that
inspires civilization
in whole or part.
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Stanley Milgrams experiment on

obedience
His study has been used to explain

the great atrocities of our time:
the My Lai massacre,
the genocide in Rwanda, and
Abu Ghraib in Iraq.
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Virtue: Level III, Stage 6

Morality
Moral evolution from preconventional (level I, stage I) to
post-conventional ethics (level III,
stage 6)
People as individuals have become
the basis of moral judgments
Orientation toward individual
conscience (personal principles)
in whole or part.
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Virtue: Level III, Stage 6 Morality

cont
A persons view of right or wrong

depends on the meaning attached to
personal existence
Meaning is based on:

Self-discovered and
self-accepted values
in whole or part.
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Ethics and the Legal

Department
Ethical warning lights go off at
different times
It is important to know when an
action may take you over the line
Your conscience should guide you
in whole or part.
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Ethics and the Legal Department

cont
Ethics is the purview of the legal

department
Being legal does not mean moral
Legality
Everything the law permits or doesnt
forbid
Morality
Older idea, predates legislated laws
in whole or part.
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Ethics and the Legal Department

cont
Do what the legal department

advises
Never lose your moral compass
The basis of every professional code
of ethics and moral society nonharm to sentient beings
in whole or part.
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Leadership Ethics

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DUM2062: EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP

Leadership Ethics cont

No Easy Subject cont

Leaders must understand and make

The Roots of Ethics

The Secular Tradition

Ethics, Humankind, and

Ethics is a concern unique to

Moral Development cont

The older community passes on

Moral Development cont

Levels of Morality cont

Levels of Morality cont

Community-oriented morality (stages

Self-direction and high principles

High morality (stage 6)

The Stolen Drug Example

Levels of Morality in History

Stanley Milgrams experiment on

His study has been used to explain

Virtue: Level III, Stage 6

Virtue: Level III, Stage 6 Morality

A persons view of right or wrong

Meaning is based on:

Ethics and the Legal

Ethics and the Legal Department

Ethics is the purview of the legal

Ethics and the Legal Department

Do what the legal department

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