LDR 711A UOPX Week 7 Code of Ethics Discussion Responses

Read and response to the student questions in 250 words for each response

Question 1:

People develop a personal code of ethics and a definition of what is right and wrong based on early life experiences with role models, such as parents, teachers, and others. Reflect on the significant relationships in your life as a child, and develop a genogram or any pictorial image of those significant relationships. Search the internet for resources on how to create a genogram, such as How to Make a Genogram.

Write a 250- to 300-word response to the following:

• How did important people in your life demonstrate ethics and morality, and what did you learn from observing their approach to ethical and moral decision-making? How might your early experiences impact your ethical decision-making as a leader?

Student response:

Ethics and morality have been introduced into my life by my parents and grandparents; I grew up under a strict family code of ethics based on trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, and caring.

Also, religion has been part of the moral education I received. I learned from the Catholic faith the ten commandments that are fundamental normative guidelines for behavior. Understanding what is right and wrong and knowing the difference and the consequences of not following the moral standards have helped me today in my leadership role and the business decision-making, keeping in mind other peoples’ cultural perceptions of ethics and morality and understanding each organization’s system.

According to Raiborn and Payme (1990), “Four fundamental ethical principles can be used to create a foundation for basic decisions concerning almost any moral/ethical question” (“Universal Moral Values | Value (Ethics) | Business Ethics”). The four principles are integrity, justice, competence, and utility.

Integrity represents moral correctness, honesty, and vulnerability; justice considers equitable, exactitude, conscientiousness, and promise; competence define as competent, trustworthy, and highly-skilled, and utility provides the best for the most substantial number.

Our leadership role should be based on these principles and every decision made in the organization. My early experience has impacted my ethical decision-making as a leader. However, at the same time, I work together with the organization’s code of ethics, including the individual’s participation in the development and promulgation, and be coherent with ethical principles and the organization’s commitments responsible for the creation, implementation, and administration of the codes.

References

Schwartz, Mark S. (2005). Universal Moral Values for Corporate Codes of Ethics. Journal of Business Ethics, 59, 27-44. 10.1007/s10551-005-3403=2.

Northouse, P. G. (2019). Leadership: Theory and practice (8th Ed.). SAGE Publications, Inc.

Question 2: Leaders are challenged to make high-stakes decisions that affect business results. Good leaders use both reason and emotion to make decisions that have an impact on employees and customers and often establish the ethical atmosphere of the organization.

Write a 250- to 300-word response to the following:

• What does it take for leaders to make sound and ethical business decisions?

Student Response: Good Leaders will never compromise on the quality of performance and on the satisfaction of their followers and organization strategy and objectives. Leaders stay concerned towards the team members, consider the stakeholders interest and provide high quality services to the customers. When Leaders have clear purpose, ethical standards, and capabilities, they will take sound decisions with minimal harm to any individuals.

Leaders have to consider ethical and moral values while making any decisions. To make sound and ethical business decisions, it requires more experience, high ethical values and self confidence. An effective leader considers the practical issues, use their analytical thinking power, apply ethical values and come up with a decision that brings positive results.

Ethical decisions are made when the leaders are confronted with ethical dilemma. The ethical decisions are made within the framework based on personal values of leaders. These frameworks guide efficient project leaders to make decisions on crucial to progressing project for its success.

As cited by Gottlieb and Sanzgiri (1996), “Leaders with integrity demonstrate consistency between vision and action that promotes trust, regularly concern themselves with developing moral standards, and are proactive agents of change in an increasingly complex world. Organizational cultures that support dialogue suspend judgments and increase their capacity to think together towards new levels of understanding. Ethical concepts evolve in these organizational cultures, and actions are informed and responsible. Organizations that reflect on their actions engage in “double loop learning” so that the time taken to reflect on the past and present leads to a more judicious and ethical future”.

For sound and ethical business decisions, the leaders should be able to

• Identify and evaluate the fundamental approach to optimistic ethics
• Communicate and discuss cases of existing cross-cultural issues involved in ethical decision-making
• Identify ethical aspect of complex business and examine this from multiple approaches
• Conduct logical and ethical debate with people from diverse culture on complex issues
• Transform business organization through strategic leadership
• Gaining knowledge, taking guidance from mentor and problem-solving skills for making ethical decisions
• Skills for making appropriate usage of capabilities in efficient group members
• Skills to plan strategies and tactics for dealing with ethical dilemma in organization

References:

Gottlieb, Jonathan Z, & Sanzgiri, Jyotsna (1996, Dec). Towards an Ethical Dimension of Decision Making in Organizations. Journal of Business Ethics, 15(12), 1275-1285. 10.1007/BF00411813