L7101 Leadership And Ethics Paper

“Leadership and Ethics”
Christy D. Harris
L7101: Foundations of Leadership
January 27, 2015
Instructor: Dr. Helen Slaven

Discuss the importance of organizational ethics as it relates to organizational effectiveness. Support your response with current literature on organizational ethics. Ethics are vital to any organization however we must define the meaning of ethics. Ethics can be easily defined as having value for what is right or wrong, and then doing the right thing which can be not as straightforward within an organization. Leadership ethics is distinct from other although related sub-fields of ethics such as business ethics. leadership ethics is a relatively new field of inquiry that has as its focus a set of ethical issues distinctive to the field of leadership, hence the notion 'leadership ethics '. A distinguishing feature of leadership ethics is the profound relationship that exists between ethical leadership and effective leadership. (Johnstone, 2013)
Among the core responsibilities of ethical effective leaders is the responsibility to lead the development of organization ethics for example by formulating and
The leaders of the organization failed the company by not conducting an extreme background check on its potential employees and setting some form of security measures that would prevent the employee taking all incoming sale calls from such sensitive information. I feel the only way this issue could have been limited and secured; the department that would be assigned to the client to work on their behalf should be the only department privy to their sensitive