Mumbai University > Information Technology > Sem 7 > Software Project Management

Marks: 10 M

Year: May 2014

Ethical Leadership:

• Ethical leadership focuses on how leasers use their social power in the decisions they make, actions they engage in and ways they influence others.
• Leaders who are ethical demonstrate a level of integrity that is important for stimulating a sense of leader trustworthiness, which is important for followers to accept the vision of the leader.
• The character and integrity of the leader provides the basis for personal characteristics that direct a leader’s ethical beliefs, values and decisions.
• Leaders who are ethical are people oriented and also aware of how their decisions impact others. They use their social power to serve the greater good instead of self-serving interests.
• In ethical leadership it is important for the leader to consider how his or her decisions impact others.
• Motivating followers to put the needs or interests of the group ahead of their own is another quality of ethical leaders.

Ethical Dilemmas:
Common Ethical Dilemmas

• Human resource situations
• Conflicts of interest
• Confidence
• Corporate resources

Making Sound Ethical Decisions

• Gather of facts
• Define ethical issue
• Identify affected stakeholders
• Identify consequences
• Identify obligations
• Consider your character and integrity
• Think creatively about potential actions
• Check your guts.