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Leadership and Ethics Unit

Leadership is a vital process of social influence that maximizes team efforts towards achieving goals. Great leaders empower others and take responsibility, harnessing skills such as problem-solving, effective communication, and resilience. Different situations call for various leadership styles: Autocratic, Bureaucratic, Democratic, and Laissez-Faire. Ethics are crucial in leadership, guiding behaviors through moral principles. Leaders must often make ethical decisions, embodying values like honesty, compassion, and fairness. This insight into leadership and ethics prepares individuals for dynamic roles in the workplace.

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Leadership and Ethics Unit

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  1. Leadership and Ethics Unit CAP Unit 4

  2. What is Leadership? • Leadership is a process of social influence, which maximizes the efforts of others, towards the achievement of a goal.

  3. What is Leadership? • As we look into the future, leaders will be those who empower other. • Bill Gates • A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. • Martin Luther King Jr. • A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. • John C. Maxwell

  4. What is Leadership? • Leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses. • Mitt Romney • Leadership is the capacity to translate a vision into reality. • Warren Bennis • A leader of the past knew how to tell; a leader of the future knows how to ask. • Peter Drucker

  5. Leadership Skills in Employment • Employers want people who are LEADERS. Leaders have the ability to: • Be a problem solver • Continue to learn • Stay organized and be accountable • Be dedicated and resilient

  6. Leadership Skills in Employment • Act collaboratively and positively • Communicate effectively and clearly • Be flexible in difficult situations • Be honest and ethical at all times • Have the ability to inspire/motivate others • Set goals and have a vision

  7. Styles of Leadership • Different styles of leadership are needed for different situations. There are 4 basic leadership styles: • Autocratic (Authoritarian) • Bureaucratic • Democratic (Participative) • Laissez-Faire (Delegative)

  8. Styles of Leadership

  9. Ethics • Ethics are the moral principals that govern a person or groups behavior. • Ethics refers to standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans should do, usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, and/or specific virtues. • Ethics, for example, refers to those standards that impose the reasonable obligations to refrain from rape, stealing, murder, assault, slander, and fraud. • Ethical standards also include those that enjoin virtues of honesty, compassion, and loyalty.

  10. Ethics and Leadership • Ethics and leadership go hand in hand; leaders are frequently called on to make ethical decisions.

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