Ethical leadership and its impact on organizational culture
Introduction
Nowadays, in the globalized era, where corporate scandals are increasing in their
reach and influence, then, the broader interest groups within corporations try to look
for managers who have the ability not only to diminish the odds of having a scandal,
but also that are able to behave properly if there happens to be one. Additionally, the
concern that has arised from ethical consciousness has emerged at the same time
when the true values and capacities that provide legitimacy to leadership are
questioned. Nowadays, leaders must be a source of ethical reference for their
employees but, they should also hold responsible for the moral development within
their organization.
Some people might consider that ethics is a confidential and intimate matter,
How people reach goals and behave, might not seem of relevance to some, and
there are some people who might think that ethics has no direct relationship with
management, but, it has been demonstrated that ethics has a direct impact on
managerial effectiveness. And also, the manager’s behaviour is frequently
disseminated over corporations, which means that the behavioural standards of a
company are often dictated by their leaders and these hold a key aspect of corporate
climate and furthermore, corporate culture.
Discussion
Ethics was a term that remained on the philosophy field for a number of years, but it
has now evolved to take place in several different environment that involve human
behaviour. Ethics is concerned with the description and prescription of moral
behaviours and requirements, and therefore, suggests that there are unacceptable
and acceptable way of behaving. So, in other words, an ethical behaviour consists of
what is morally viewed as right, which means that it is opposed to bad. So, ethics is
a code of moral principles and values that act as a reference frame for people no act
respecting what is wrong or right (Brown, Treviño % Harrison, 2005).
In a more specific way, within an organization, ethics can be observed as the
identification about the most important attitudes and values that are important to a
specific business and its stakeholders. So, in certain way, ethics is a non-stop
reaffirmation and discovery of a company’s own values. In that sense, ethical
behaviour, within a organizational context has been identified in term of the ethical
principles of a company’s upper management and the extent to which they contribute
for the consolidation of the company’s culture (Mayer et al 2009).
