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Value Of Organizational Ethics Training: A Two-Fold Benefit, Chad Roehrman
Value Of Organizational Ethics Training: A Two-Fold Benefit, Chad Roehrman
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
The terms “business ethics” or “moral leadership” are regularly considered oxymorons (Gini, 2004). However, nearly all members of an organization want their leaders and the entities they lead to behave ethically (Bazerman & Tenbrunsel, 2011). Additionally, given the power and influence leaders have over their followers, ethics is critical to the process of leadership (Northouse, 2013). Leaders are at the pinnacle of organizational ethics, yet they fail for a variety of reasons, necessitating organizational ethics training. First, comprehensive ethics training provides clarity of an individual’s values, providing the foundation for sound ethical decision-making. Second, ethics training that transcends simple right …
Beyond The Content And Pedagogy: A Step Forward Towards A Value-Based Teacher’S Professional Development, Sharifullah Baig
Beyond The Content And Pedagogy: A Step Forward Towards A Value-Based Teacher’S Professional Development, Sharifullah Baig
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
This paper reviews the contemporary literature of human values and valuation processes, and proposes a re-conceptualized model of a teacher’s professional development. This paper suggests a thorough analysis of the teacher’s personality and devises alternative, well thought-out strategies and approaches to alter self-knowledge, values, valuation processes, and beliefs to imbed the desired impact on their teaching practices. This paper supports the use of deliberate attempts to alter the basic motivation level of teachers and to deliberately expose them to available knowledge to modify their values, attitudes, and actions in their respective professions, organizations, and formal associations. Hence, such professional development …
Great Leaders Fight For The Right Cause At The Wrong Time, Emilio F. Iodice
Great Leaders Fight For The Right Cause At The Wrong Time, Emilio F. Iodice
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
Emilio Iodice examines a wealth of historical figures with the primary object of demonstrating how passion, commitment, and accountability are infused in the sayings and actions of great men and women; it is through their courage and sacrifice that we can all gain the necessary impetus to interject our own objectives and causes while honing our communicative skills.
Ethical Leadership In Intercollegiate Athletics, Angela Lumpkin, Joe Doty
Ethical Leadership In Intercollegiate Athletics, Angela Lumpkin, Joe Doty
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
Ethical leadership and a values-based culture should be two sides of the same coin in intercollegiate athletics. Needed are ethical leaders serving as role models of integrity, trustworthiness, honesty, fairness, and respect for others. Ethical leaders model how values should guide actions and decisions as well as implement reward systems that hold others accountable for ethical conduct. Athletic directors and other athletic administrators with the moral courage to do what is right regardless of circumstances can nurture values-based cultures as they shape and develop the lives of athletes and colleagues they influence. The purposes of this theoretical work are to …
The Role Of The Narrative In Values-Led Business, Dave F. Brauer, David B. Brauer
The Role Of The Narrative In Values-Led Business, Dave F. Brauer, David B. Brauer
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
Many leaders of values-based organizations already possess the requisite passion for the core values of their respective organizations. The ability to have their organizations perform in a manner consistent with these values is critical to gain the authenticity necessary for their audiences in order to discern the value of what that particular organization offers. The inability to articulate this to all stakeholders — including the marketplace, investors, employees, and competitors — may increase the hazard of mortality for the organization.
One characteristic that human beings do not share with any other creature on earth is the ability to relate complex …
It’S Time To Stop Talking, And Start Taking Action About Ethics In The Military, Ritch Eich, Paul Grossgold
It’S Time To Stop Talking, And Start Taking Action About Ethics In The Military, Ritch Eich, Paul Grossgold
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
Two seasoned veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces call for immediate and comprehensive change in military leadership — especially in light of recently reported criminal offenses and general wrongdoing — all evidencing a serious lack of ethical leadership. Eich and Grossgold go beyond highlighting some of the most egregious breaches of conduct affecting those men and women who have volunteered their time, families, and potentially their lives in service to their country; they offer points of action and remediation to begin to correct such abuses and imbue ethics throughout all branches of military leadership.
Developing An Inter-University Partnership: The Importance Of Relationally-Connected Leaders, Jenny Ferrier-Kerr, Paul Haxton
Developing An Inter-University Partnership: The Importance Of Relationally-Connected Leaders, Jenny Ferrier-Kerr, Paul Haxton
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
We have been involved in an inter-university partnership that supports, contributes to, and influences our own and others’ thinking and actions. As we have collaborated on teaching, learning, and research in the field of educational leadership, we recognise that we have developed our own leadership practice and created opportunities for others to do so. The partnership in which academics and students from the University of Central Oklahoma and the University of Waikato have been participating has evolved as a flexible and innovative endeavor over an eighteen-month period. In this relatively brief time, we have discovered there are considerable possibilities for …
Book Review: 21 Success Sutras For Leaders By M.S. Rao, M. Ganesh Sai, M. Ramakrishna Sayee
Book Review: 21 Success Sutras For Leaders By M.S. Rao, M. Ganesh Sai, M. Ramakrishna Sayee
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
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Professor M. S. Rao’s 21 Success Sutras for Leaders (“Success Sutras”) offers keen, managerial insight into the benefits of learning from the experiences of others — whether disadvantageous, banal, or extremely useful. Acclaimed as an international, authoritative resource on leadership, Success Sutras equips the reader with 21 leadership tools and techniques designed to minimize mistakes and maximize leadership effectiveness. Its 22 chapters and 176 pages provide examples and illustrations of international leaders and their respective styles of principled leadership paradigms.
The Pontificate Of John Paul Ii: A Pastoral Model For Effective Leadership, Justin M. Udomah
The Pontificate Of John Paul Ii: A Pastoral Model For Effective Leadership, Justin M. Udomah
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
Throughout the course of human history, there have been individuals whose lives have transformatively impacted entire generations In the Catholic Church. One such person was Pope John Paul II. This paper attempts to designate him as an effective leader by analyzing his personal life, pastoral engagements, and relationships with others through the lens of value-based, authentic, and positive leadership. The resources for this analysis were based on documents and archival materials. Upon analyzing the data, it was concluded that John Paul II’s pontificate was an era of effective leadership. From this conclusion, the implications for contemporary leaders at different levels …
Motivating Strategies Leaders Employ To Increase Follower Effort, Michael L. Schwartz, Patricia A. Castelli
Motivating Strategies Leaders Employ To Increase Follower Effort, Michael L. Schwartz, Patricia A. Castelli
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
The purpose of this research was to determine which motivating strategies followers desire from their leaders and what motivating strategies are actually displayed by their leaders to increase followers’ effort. Additionally, this research assessed the followers’ level of self-reported extra effort and the amount of extra effort followers perceive their leaders exert. From this data, conclusions were drawn regarding the relationships between followers’ self-reported extra effort and the followers’ perception of their leaders’ extra effort. This quantitative research study was conducted via LinkedIn using Survey Monk ey and is based on Keller’s 42 item ARCS Model (attention, relevance, confidence, and …
Authentic Corporate Social Responsibility Based On Authentic Empowerment: An Exemplary Business Leadership Case, Pamala J. Dillon, Robin M. Back, Charles C. Manz
Authentic Corporate Social Responsibility Based On Authentic Empowerment: An Exemplary Business Leadership Case, Pamala J. Dillon, Robin M. Back, Charles C. Manz
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
Authors Dillon, Back, and Manz examine the underpinnings of genuine or authentic Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), noting the direct nexus between stakeholder empowerment and the socially-responsible actions of authentic leaders. Such an empowering leadership approach– involving structural, psychological, developmental, and financial components – is particularly exemplified by a family-owned (Back) wine and cheese company (Fairview Trust), situate in South Africa.
Stakeholders Management In The Indian Construction Industry: Insights Into The Approach At Larsen & Toubro’S Construction Division, Shashank Shah
Stakeholders Management In The Indian Construction Industry: Insights Into The Approach At Larsen & Toubro’S Construction Division, Shashank Shah
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
This case study is comprised of an interview with Dr. Anumolu Ramakrishna, former Deputy Managing Director of Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (L&T), India. Dr. Ramakrishna oversaw the construction of major infrastructure projects and the ensuing expansion of L&T into overseas markets through the formation of international joint ventures. He stressed that the success of these undertakings was largely due to the acknowledgement that one company is simply a microcosm of the global market and without inter-personal collaboration, cooperation, integration of development, mutual understanding, and employment of others’ skills ‒ all in concert with the natural environment ‒ a company’s success …
The System Has A Hole In It: Why Leaders Don’T Follow Their Heroes’ Examples, John Renesch
The System Has A Hole In It: Why Leaders Don’T Follow Their Heroes’ Examples, John Renesch
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
Despite good intentions, leaders’ desires to follow and implement the teachings and actions of their heroes often become empty promises and meaningless platitudes. Without commitment to intentionally leading by example, workers remain uninspired and organizations decay. To create a more conscious company and functional enterprise, true leaders embrace risk and all of its consequences.
Exploring The Relationship Of Ethical Leadership With Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, And Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Laurie A. Yates
Exploring The Relationship Of Ethical Leadership With Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, And Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Laurie A. Yates
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
The impact of ethics on recent leadership practices has assumed a prominent role in both practical and theoretical discussions of organizational leadership successes and failures. A leader's ability to affect followers' attitudes and behaviors is important in this pursuit because it can result in greater job performance (Tanner, Brugger, Van Schie, & Lebherz, 2010). Ethical leadership may provide an effective approach for fostering positive employee outlooks and actions. Employees respond positively to the ethical leader's principled leadership, altruism, empowerment, and reward systems, suggesting that improved employee attitudes and work-related behaviors may follow (Brown & Trevino, 2006).
Three established measures of …
Leadership Trails: Lessons From The Lakota Sun Dance, Daniel P. Modaff
Leadership Trails: Lessons From The Lakota Sun Dance, Daniel P. Modaff
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
This essay argues that while having a vision as a leader is important, that often means that the future is afforded more value than the past and the present. The past demonstrates the leadership trails, or the evidence for what has and has not worked for the organization as the leaders and members enact the leadership vision. Here I offer a leadership model that embraces leadership trails, one based on a decade of research on traditional Lakota life, particularly their most sacred ceremony, the Sun Dance. The Lakota-based leadership model consists of six elements: mitakuye oyasin (“we are all related”), …