The insights I gained from this exercise on the development of a leaders’ moral character is that through hard work, ethics, and determination anyone can be successful at being a leader. We must learn from mistakes and reprimand ourselves when we fall behind our best performance. Malinda states "The development of a leader of moral character must include confidence, charisma, determination, wise, detailed, organized and patience." I concur with this statement I exhibit many of these traits. A verse on moral character is one Corinthians 15:33 in the English Standard Version Bible which states “Do not be deceived: Bad company ruins good morals.” In addition, seeing Mrs. Potier in her work atmosphere enables me to see how she solves problems in the workplace. Mrs. Potier breaks down the problem and comes up with several options before choosing one. If she feels dissonance then she asks another supervisor for their input. This shows insight on the leader’s moral character. A leader’s morals are very important it is those values that have enabled that leader to be successful in that organ...
Sarah’s leadership style exemplified strong ethical values, which kept her employees engaged and motivated to participate in the daily processes. She leads others by embracing her values and providing compassion to her employees. As indicated by Hess & Cameron (2006), some of her leadership values resulted from a negative experience that she had while she was in nursing school. She vowed that she would never treat employees the way that she was treated back then. Instead, she decided that as a leader, she would recognize values, ethics, and common sense in herself, as well as others. Additionally, she chose to have empathy for her employees and their experiences (p.113). Her values and actions allowed her to transform a failing billing unit into a successful and productive team.
Some of the key ideas that Hartman discussed about in this article were revolved around the concept of teaching and defining what a good character is. Hartman started off his article by talking about generosity, honesty, courage and respect. Hartman also talked about how business ethics courses can help improve students’ character by helping them think about their values (Hartman 69). Hartman also discussed about how many people are “sincere but they are not courageous” (Hartman 73). Moreover, Hartman’s goal was to help encourage students “to consider their strengths and limitations, their opportunities, and what they can and cannot learn to enjoy” (Hartman 72) and “help students understand the importance of that choice and not make it thoughtlessly” (Hartman 79). Hartman answered if good character is teachable throughout his article. As Hartman stated, “We can begin to teach our students the necessary self-knowledge and self-control by encouraging them to reflect on their assumptions about what will make them happy.” (Hartman 71). Hartman illustrated that an “important function is to provide help for students to understand the language of right and wrong, of virtues and vices” (Hartman 75). Hartman believes that a “good character is therefore a matter not only of doing the right thing but also having the right desires and emotions” (Hartman
You will interact with numerous people during your lifetime; however, only important and significant people will make influences in your life. In the movie Something the Lord Made directed by Joseph Sargent, Vivien Thomas, an African-American carpenter who dreams of going to college and becoming a doctor, is forced to work as a lab assistant under the instructions and guidance of an arrogant and eccentric cardiologist, Dr. Alfred Blalock. Despite having no college degree, Vivien Thomas is able to learn medical and surgical skills through the guidance of Dr. Blalock, and their cooperation ultimately leads to the discovery of a cure for blue baby syndrome. Similar to Dr. Blalock’s tutelage, I have learned to love biology under the teaching and mentoring of my biology teacher, Dr. Cron. Even though both Dr. Cron and Dr. Blalock are excellent instructors, they are extremely and uniquely different in their mentoring styles. Differences in mentoring styles can have huge influences and impacts on the mentees’ development of skills, and personalities.
This chapter goes over the persuasive leadership traits which are disinterest, virtue, and practical wisdom. Heinrichs conveys the readers by explaining ethos to change their opinion on the argument. He gives a good understanding of the values and virtue. The things people value like their faith, money, and honor help their character. He tries to get on the readers good side so they can trust his word. This chapter can be very useful for highschool students that are learning how to use ethos in their writing because it gives examples of ways to remember ethos traits such as “C3”: caring, cause, craft. It is meaningful because it helps someone understand what ethos is used for and provides understanding to use in the
The emphasis on leaders being not just executives and managers, and that not all executives and managers are leaders, is extremely vital. Anyone can strive to be a leader in whatever organization in which they are involved. Bennis and Nanus claim that leadership is about character, setting the example for how team members treat one other (and in a corporate setting, their clients as well), being truthful and sustaining organizational trust, and encouraging themselves and others to learn. On one hand, it can be easy to see how many people in leadership positions do no match up to these standards of leadership. On the other, it seems a bit like common sense to be truthful to others and to effectively communicate with people who work together everyday. Leaders is an effective tool for summarizing and inspiring leadership not in that it teaches tough strategies and manipulations, but that when looking at an overview of its content, Bennis and Nanus are essentially teaching human relations and human decency. All in all, this book highlights strategies for us all to be better in our lives and our everyday
Leaders have a responsibility to ensure that the organization is running effectively. In addition, the decisions that are made should be in the best interest of the organization, therefore, the leader should ensure that the decisions are moving the organization closer to its vision. According to Manning and Curtis (2015), there are 10 qualities that influence the leadership process: Vision, Ability, Enthusiasm, Stability, Concern for others, Self-confidence, Persistence, Vitality, Charisma, and Integrity. Leaders have to consider these 10 qualities when making effective decisions about the organization. Conversely, when these qualities do not influence the decision-making process for leaders, the organizational leader is not possessing
Leadership starts with the person at hand. There are two types of leaders good or bad is a simple way to view it. Leaders can be characterized as someone with charisma, motivated, helpful. However, that’s not always the case. Leader have to understand that they set examples for their followers. Their number one job is to influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes and outcomes that reflect their shared purpose.
Northouse (2016) offers a Skills Inventory Questionnaire to assess which skills and traits leaders exhibit strengths and weaknesses in. This questionnaire determined I have the most strength in technical skills with a score of 28. This did not come as a surprise to me as I have implemented many technological advances since beginning at my agency 6 years ago and am consistently called upon to solve technological crises. Northouse mentions that leaders with high technological skills are seen as more credible and can offer innovative solutions to problems which I have experienced in my career (2016). In human skills, I scored a 26 which indicates that I am a “people person” (Northouse, 2016). I have always tried to maintain great relationships with my coworkers and colleagues. Although I agree that human skills are
She utilized the “Creator Trait” from “Team Dynamics” when addressing the issue of strikers preventing those who wanted to work from doing so. She used the “Full Range Leadership” “Transformational Leadership” trait of “Individualized Consideration” when a member of her team needed additional coaching on speaking to the media. Margaret Thatcher was also an “Ethical Leader”. Her conviction to the “Critical Thinking” characteristic “Free Thinking” paved the way for Great Brittan’s economic recovery. Her ability to “Discern, Declare, and Do” turned Great Brittan’s economic woes around. On a much smaller scale, I was able to employ the “Visionary Leadership” trait “Individualized Consideration” when encouraging one of my members to volunteer. I was also able to use the “Ethical Leadership” principle of “Discern, Declare, and Do” to respond to a Staff Sergeant’s appointment request in an ethical manner. Margaret Thatcher was definitely a visionary and ethical leader. Even though the odds were stacked against her, with visionary and ethical leadership skills, Margaret Thatcher was able to successfully resolve both the union and financial crisis of Great
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The leader that was chosen for this task is Harlan. Harlan is a manager at a clinic where he manages 13 employees. The two ethical traits that your chosen leader has demonstrated are he extends trust and has two-way conversations with employees. Harlan uses these ethical traits with the employees that report to him and all other employees in the company.
personal character. (Scott, R. and Wong, K., p.449) Ethics has to do with an business’s leadership,
This paper will introduce the definitions of Character and integrity. Then I will examine how Christ modeled these leadership defining qualities, How we can make them applicable to ourselves.
Q1) Morals are the code of conduct for an individual, while values are the ideologies that determine the specific personality trait of an individual. Now, moral leadership is different from other forms of leadership. Moral leaders aim to serve. Considering my morals and values, I believe that I am an empath. An empath is a person who can very quickly relate or feel the issues and problems faced by other people. Justice is a core moral factor present in me. Moral leaders tend to develop capabilities among their subordinates and other employees or team members. In such a scenario, empath are the best suitable person. The reason is they are able to relate with problems quickly which makes it easy to guide the person in trouble
In leadership, the words and actions of leaders are in the spotlight of followers, moral failures often precede the loss of integrity; however, integrity can also be lost by failing to do the simple things such as following through on a promise or dodging a commitment (Stewart, 2003). Jesus requires integrity in leadership even in small matters; thus, when it comes to integrity, small matters can also be huge ones in Christian leadership (Stewart, 2003). Outside the confines of Christian leadership, one challenge to secular leadership is the ego of the leader; hence, the ego of a business executive can be a very destructive force and can prevent a good company from becoming a great company (Kleinman, 2004). Businesses that are termed successful have leaders with ambition but no ego; therefore, those leaders with ambition but no ego, ultimately place the business or institution above themselves (Kleinman, 2004). Ego comes at a great cost to leadership because of pride, in the end, pride leads to blindness in decision making and unavoidable future regret. My own view on the biggest challenge to leadership is developing management effectiveness. Management is frequently defined in terms of being a systematic process that controls people and resources; thus, with an overlap between leadership and management, many leaders greatly need