UOP MGT 460 Week 1 – Discussion 1

UOP MGT 460 Week 1 – Discussion 1

Week 1 – Discussion 1

Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Refer to the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric under the Settings icon above for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.

 Ethical Practices

Ethics are the foundation of successful leadership in business and the reputation of a business is impacted by its leaders’ ethical practices. Find two articles in the Ashford Library to share with the class; one on ethical leadership practices and the other on unethical leadership practices. Summarize and appropriately cite and reference your findings on the impact of the respective business’ reputation on the public.

Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts with constructive ideas, comments, or suggestions.

Ethics are the foundation of successful leadership in business, and its leaders’ ethical practices impact the reputation of a business. Find two articles in the Ashford Library to share with the class; one on ethical leadership practices and the other on unethical leadership practices. Summarize and appropriately cite and reference your findings on the impact of the respective business’ reputation on the public.

Jacqueline Hood wrote an article for the Journal of Business Ethics about a study done to determine if the leadership style and values of the CEO of a company directly affects the ethical practices that occur within that company. The study used Rokeach’s typology with the four categories of benefits: personal, social, competency-based and morality-based. There were 2000 surveys sent to Corporate Technology Information type companies. The response percentage was only 19.6% even after two copies of the study were sent to the ones that didn’t respond and reminder cards between surveys.

It was proven “that the ethical orientation of the CEO is a critical issue to consider in understanding ethical practices in organizations” (Hood, 2003, pg. 7). Other results that were found was the transactional leader would only do what is legally mandated where the transformational leader will go above and beyond and implement “more voluntary socially responsible and ethical practices within the organization” (Hood, 2003, pg. 8).

This study titled Being “in control” may make you lose control: The role of self-regulation in unethical leadership collected data about unethical leader behavior using Bennett and Robinson’s workplace deviance instrument due to its “good psychometric properties” (Joosten, 2014, pg. 3). They believe those wrong choices are made knowingly and willingly. The researchers used a laboratory experiment in study 1 with subjects taking a morality test along with each one given a leadership role based on that test. The second study used the same morality test as in the first study, but they also used Bennett and Robinson’s organizational deviance scale to measure unethical leadership behavior. The study concluded that leaders that identify as being low in morality tend to require assistance to control themselves, while those that identify as being high in righteousness tend to not need support (Joosten, 2014, pg. 8).

References

Hood, J. N. (2003). The relationship of leadership style and CEO values to ethical practices in organizations. Journal of Business Ethics, 43(4), 263-273. Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com/docview/197999805?accountid=32521 (Links to an external site.)

Joosten, A., van Dijke, M., Van Hiel, A., & De Cremer, D. (2014). Being “in control” may make you lose control: The role of self-regulation in unethical leadership behavior. Journal of Business Ethics, 121(1), 1-14. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-013-1686-2