The Reflection Of The Leadership And Ethics Class

This leadership and ethics class has really increase my initial narrow views about leadership. Summarized below are the three most important things I managed to learn from this class.

1. The evolving complex process behind leadership and decision making

I began attending this class, with little understanding about leadership and its various ethical challenges, before any leader can make decision. I am now have a better understanding about the proper definition of leadership with its four main components, as it involves a “process” of “influencing people” to achieve a “common goal”, and something that can be learn and develop overtime (Northouse, 2015). It generally involves a two way process of leaders affecting the followers and vice versa,

3. The four leadership style of transformational, authentic, servant, and team leadership and their ethical behavioral challenges

The above four leadership style is something new that I managed to learn and it enable myself to be aware of their strengths and weaknesses, before applying each of them in any given situation. One similarity that can be drawn from these four leadership style is their follower-centric leadership behavior, meaning they all trying to develop followers holistically in terms of high moral values, maintain certain level of ethical conduct and standard, provide motivation, trust, and empowerment. It also develops the personal growth of followers through the provision of inspiration that can drive them to achieve the desired

Transformational leadership needs to be apply with care and control, because having experienced it back in Fiji and in workplace, it can be subject to abuse by leaders. It could lead to leaders unethical behavior and influences especially political leaders who are member of a collective group, who use coercive forces to transform followers known as pseudotransformational leadership behavior. In this case, authentic leadership is preferred. A leadership that is genuine, transparent, based on moral values, and responsive to the people’s needs and values.

Servant leadership, having experienced it personally in my religious organization that despite the fact that leaders have to lead by examples, the challenges is when followers or committee members produce less result overtime. Followers or committee members in church often believes that to be a leader and a servant at the same time, they can step in and complete most of the on-going church programs or tasks. Therefore, being aware of this attitude by followers or committee members, team leadership could be apply team leadership to supplement servant leadership that facing this kind of