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Name One
Ethical Leader
You Admire
Leadership & Ethical Behaviors
- Price Pritchett
Four sources of unintentional
unethical decision making
• Implicit Prejudice
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/ or http://www.tolerance.org/hidden_bias/
• In-Group Favoritism
• Over-claiming Credit
• Conflict of Interest
Banaji, M.R., Bazerman, M.H. & Chugh, D. (2003). How (un)ethical are you?
Harvard Business Review
Game Show Ethics? (video)
What Tools Do We Have
Available To Us?
“Don’t take people by what they
say – watch what they do.”
Fred Meijer
Ethical Road – Meijer Ethics, 2011
Role of Values
(Kerns, 2005)
Common Workplace Values
• Empathy • Conceptualizaton
• Healing • Stewardship
Leadership
Philosophy - Code
of Conduct
Personal Values
Elements of Moral Character
(Johnson,2012)
• Perseverance • Self-consistency –
being true to one’s
• Determination word
• Self discipline • Being transparent
• Will power can also be • Being accountable
translated to a set of
interlocking skills –
analyzing problems,
setting goals, focusing
attention, resisting
temptations
Values Determine & Guide
the Quality of our Ethical Leadership…
Quality of our
values we
Determines
embrace and
the quality of
the intensity
Values of our
ethical
leadership
commitment
we provide
to them
Ethical Decision Making
Types of Ethical Decisions
• Right versus wrong
Types of Ethical Decisions
• Right versus wrong
behavior ?
thinking
thinking
?
required
“In law a man is guilty when he
violates the rights of others. In ethics
he is guilty if he only thinks of doing
so.”
-Immanuel Kant
Results Cone
results ?
behavior ?
thinking
“I deserve it”
Results Cone
results ?
behavior ?
thinking
“No one will ever
know.”
Results Cone
results ?
behavior ?
thinking
“Everyone does it.”
Types of Ethical Decisions
• Right versus wrong
• Ethical Dilemma
Kidder’s Ethical Decision Making Process
1. Recognize that there is a problem.
2. Decide who is responsible.
3. Gather the relevant facts.
4. Test for right-versus-wrong issues.
5. Test for right-versus-right values.
6. Apply the ethical standards/perspectives.
7. Look for a third way.
8. Make a decision.
9. Look back at the decision and think about how
it could have been done differently.
Johnson, C.E. (2005). Meeting the ethical challenges of leadership.
Ethical Dilemma
Truth Loyalty
Kidder’s Paradigms
• Ends-based Thinking
• Rule-based Thinking
• Care-based Thinking
Decision-Making Ends-based Thinking Rule-based Thinking Care-based Thinking
(follow what you want
Principles (greatest good for the everyone else to follow…fixed (putting care for others first…do
Dilemma greatest number…cost benefit rules…stick to principles and let to others what you would like
the consequential chips fall
Paradigms analysis…forecasting
where they may)
them to do to you)
outcomes)
• Value relationships.
• Open to influence.
• Allow others to hold differing opinions.
• Honesty.
• Mindfulness
• Effective Listening
• Emotional Intelligence
• Trust Building
listening to understand
• entire message
• beyond the words
to agree/disagree
non-listening
7% Words
regulation
• Empathy • Radar
• Assertiveness • Engine
-Sigmund Freud
Results Cone
results
behavior
thinking
lower
quality
thinking
higher
quality
thinking
lower
quality
thinking
Trust
“You must earn the right to lead
others…this comes as a result of your
care and building of trust with
others.”
• Mindfulness
• Effective Listening
• Emotional Intelligence
• Trust Building
YOU