Literature Review about Organizational Leaders
The aftermath of recent organizational scandals has forced managers and researchers alike to focus their attention on ethical questions in organizational leadership. In respect of this fact, various researchers have made recommendations that ethics in organization leadership should be managed in a proactive manner though explicit ethical leadership and the development of ethical culture. In this context, organizational leaders play a big role in determining whether ethics in organizational leadership can be realized or not. The research has been carried out on the subject of ethics in organizational leadership, but there still remains room for further research and more improvements. This paper provides a review of earlier works that have been used by organizational leaders to better manage their employees and their individual ethical behaviors under the context of ethics in organization leadership.
Much has been researched and written on organizational leadership and management, especially on the subject of ethics in organization leadership. This plethora of research work has been increased to a greater extent by the manner in which ethical breaches in workplace or organizational setting has been described. This publication has been organized in such a way that all attention has been focused on the issue of ethical behavior and leadership in organizations. In a number of companies, cultural values that guide employees often emanate from the top levels. Employees take their cues from the messages communicated by those in formal organizational leadership roles. This occurs due to the fact that most employees do not know their organization executives personally. They only can make sense from what the information they receive. Therefore, senior executives must develop ethics for their leadership by being visible in ethical matters and communicating strong ethical messages. This paper provides a review of literature concerning ethics in organization leadership.
The aftermath of recent organizational scandals has provoked managers and researchers to turn their attention to questions regarding ethics in organization leadership and management. Despite the fact that scientific study of ethics in organization leadership is relatively new, there exist research and theory that can aid executives who try to manage their organizations and their ethical conduct in a better way. This literature review organizes much of the available research under the following themes:
- Ethics in organization leadership from leaders’ perspective;
- Ethics in leadership’s role in creating a ethical culture within the organization;
- Authentic leadership versus ethical leadership;
- Influence of leadership styles on ethical leadership.
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