2023-04-30 13:22 Tags: # Ethical Leadership #quote "Ethics give businesses, their leaders and employees a moral compass. They ensure the most important policies and business decisions don’t just work in favour of revenue, but are also fair, unbiased and honest" – Tamanna Mishra ## Key Factors to develop ethical leaders 1. Commitment from all leaders to a clearly stated code of ethical conduct that is continually enforced helps establish acceptable standards or boundaries for employee conduct 2. Recruiting, selecting, and promoting managers with high moral standards are ways of creating a culture of ethical responsibility 3. Developing performance standards and rewards that emphasise respect for people as individuals, and ethics as a non-negotiable performance metric 4. Providing leaders with education and training that teaches them how to integrate diverse points of view. Being able to see the inter-relationships among new perspectives and old, lies at the source of moral development 5. Training individuals with the necessary characteristics, social skills, and motivation to acquire ethical leader behaviours. Training in ethical leadership skills must be consistent with the philosophy of leadership at the top of the company and the company culture 6. Identifying people who exemplify high moral conduct. Such people need to be held as strong examples, by leaders, as essential to the long term success of the organisation ## Creating an ethical organisation 1. Clear Expectations for What is OK and Not OK [Clear expectations for behaviour among all members of an organisation is the first step towards a more ethical organisational culture, while also ensuring that the biases, safety and accommodation of different demographics (gender, culture etc are taken into consideration)] 2. Modelling Desired Behaviour [Thus, organisational leaders must practice what they preach and be sure that they model for others the desired behaviours that they wish to nurture within their organisations. How they behave inside and outside of the workplace matters in setting this behaviour.] 3. Reinforce the Behaviour You Want, and Don’t Reinforce the Behaviour That You Don’t Want [Ethical behaviour must be clearly reinforced so that it will continue to occur inside and outside of the workplace. Problematic unethical behaviour should not be reinforced or rewarded (even being ‘rewarded’ by silence) in any way, if the organisation wishes to extinguish these undesirable behaviours] 4. Focus on Skill Building and Problem Solving [Institutions must help with step by step strategies for developing effective ethical decision making and behaviour skills and strategies for resolving ethical dilemmas or troubles, noting that this is a constant learning exercise] 5. Provide the Tools People Need to Act Ethically [If an organisation wants to create a culture of ethics they must be sure that members have the tools that they need to do so. These include adequate and appropriate training, consultation, modelling, and supervision] 6. Provide Corrective Feedback [Unless organisations offer timely and thoughtful corrective feedback regarding behaviour they will unlikely create a culture of ethics] [^1] # References [^1]: [Week 8 ELEC4122 Leadership](../../../Spaces/University/ELEC4122/lecture%20slides/blank/Week%208%20%20ELEC4122%20Leadership.pdf)