You are tasked with drafting your own personal ethical leadership model. There are many questions to answer but your first question is the most pressing. How do you create a personal ethical leadership model that will align with your own personal values and morals? Will it be transferable in any organizational environment? Will it mesh with organizational ethical codes of conducts? Will it adhere to those policies, laws and guidelines that are relevant to you as a person as well? Will your model draw from other contemporary leadership models and include your ethical decision-making process? Logic dictates that to develop said model, you have to begin with an understanding of the following statements: “I know who I am and what I can do; I understand
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People have used their religious beliefs as the foundation for their ethical views (Chapman, n.d). Moreover, religion has been used to fuel political views as well. The challenge resides with the purpose. If using religion is to absolve a person from being accountable for his or her decision, then religion is problematic. In other words, if the person makes the wrong decision, God will judge him or her. How would a person that is not religious or believe in other gods relate to this process? Brenda is a religious person but understands that not everyone agrees or accepts her religious beliefs. Therefore, she strives to be objective in her ethical decision-making. People expect their leaders to be objective in their decision-making. Consider the concerns that were raised by comments from presidential candidates as to whether President Obama is a Christian (York, 2015). This is his seventh year in the White House and there is still confusion. Does his religious preference make him less of an effective decision-maker when it comes to matters such as foreign affairs? In her article, “A note on five traditional theories of moral reasoning”, Patricia Werhane central point is that ethical decision-making is not consistently based upon facts (1994). According to Machiavelli, “successful leaders have to follow a special ethical code, one that differs from their private morality and from Judeo-Christian ethics” (Badaracco, 2009, p.5). There are other factors or influences to
People have used their religious beliefs as the foundation for their ethical views (Chapman, n.d). Moreover, religion has been used to fuel political views as well. The challenge resides with the purpose. If using religion is to absolve a person from being accountable for his or her decision, then religion is problematic. In other words, if the person makes the wrong decision, God will judge him or her. How would a person that is not religious or believe in other gods relate to this process? Brenda is a religious person but understands that not everyone agrees or accepts her religious beliefs. Therefore, she strives to be objective in her ethical decision-making. People expect their leaders to be objective in their decision-making. Consider the concerns that were raised by comments from presidential candidates as to whether President Obama is a Christian (York, 2015). This is his seventh year in the White House and there is still confusion. Does his religious preference make him less of an effective decision-maker when it comes to matters such as foreign affairs? In her article, “A note on five traditional theories of moral reasoning”, Patricia Werhane central point is that ethical decision-making is not consistently based upon facts (1994). According to Machiavelli, “successful leaders have to follow a special ethical code, one that differs from their private morality and from Judeo-Christian ethics” (Badaracco, 2009, p.5). There are other factors or influences to