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Ethical Leadership
IPW Metropolia Business School 2014
Andrea Rijkeboer-van Gemert MSc
Thursday, 15-05-2014
Ethical leadership
Definition: the demonstration of normatively appropriate conduct through
personal actions and interpersonal relationships, and the promotion of such
conduct to followers through two-way communication, reinforcement and
decision-making.
These leaders are legitimate and credible ethical role models by acting
altruistic, being honest, considerate of others and treating people fairly. Trust
and integrity are important traits these leaders possess.
Relationship with follower attitudes and contextual performance:
Employees satisfaction with their leader, leader effectiveness, employees’
willingness to give extra effort, willingness to report problems to management.
Brown, M.E., Treviño, L.K. & Harrison, D.A. (2005). Ethical leadership: A social
learning perspective for construct development and testing. Organizational
Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 97, 117-134.
Examples of ethical leader behaviour
Transformational leadership
Motivate their followers to do more
than the followers originally intended
and thought possible. Set challenging
expectations and achieves higher
standards of performance. Looks at
higher purposes. Developer of people,
builder of teams.
Idealized
influence
Inspirational
motivation
Intellectual
stimulation
Individualized
consideration
Directive and participative
Transactional leadership
Contingent
reward
Praise
Active
Salary,
bonus
Passive
Management by
exception
Transformational ethical leadership
Transforming leaders inspire followers by aligning their own and their followers’
values systems toward important moral principles. (Idealized influence  ethical
component)
These leaders are role models for followers to pursue, they can be counted on
doing the right thing and they demonstrate high standards of ethical and moral
conduct.
Ethical leaders set clear standards and hold employees accountable for following
them (transactional leadership). An ethical leader uses elements of both
transactional AND transformational style.
Social learning theory: rewarding appropriate and disciplining inappropriate
conduct. Doing this in a fair way.
Transformational leadership skills
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Critical evaluation and problem recognition
Developing a vision
To be able to communicate a vision
Impression management
Know what followers need
Interpersonal skills (emotional intelligence)
Developing leadership skills
Factors that have affected your
leadership skills already
Personality
Education by
parents
Experiences in
your youth
Leadership
experiences
Model behavior
Education and
training
Expectations
Belief in own
abilities
Willingness
to receive
feedback
Can competences be developed?
Not-hardly
• Learning capacity and
willingness
• Sociability
• Achievement
motivation
• Enthusiasm
• Judgment
• Vision
Well
• Planning and organizing
• Listening
• Decision making
• Empathy
Role play