BLUF: An Organizational value is tied to a leader’s behavior

(Study Title)Academia Letters: Ethical Behavior and Leadership Effectiveness

This is a synthesis of other studies indicating successful and ethical leaders who:

• Must display and espouse the desired values;

• Promote the desired policies;

• Provide the education and hire the right people;

• Incentify the correct behavior; and

• maintain an active feedback loop for poor behavior.

This results in an ethical set of leadership behaviors that increase the value of an organization.

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There is a lot of media attention and ongoing studies on the new generation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) software's impact on organizations. In the end, AI will only provide outputs based on available data and its instructions for translating the data into an end product. Some AI image results are cringe-worthy, interesting, strange, and creepy. The image below is the initial image response from a five-word instruction set for a popular AI image-generating application. We can watch the growth of AI capabilities over time while looking at the very details AI generates in response to a simple set of instructions. What is your reaction to this picture? What details do you see?

Image Reaction: The instructions did not request humans, let alone primarily male ones of a specific race and attire. Is this just a representation of those who program the computer set of instructions? Head and body size do not match, and the creepy cross hands for a face in the middle stand out slightly more than the male with the name badge and big suit for such a little head. Are these your ideal of an ethical leader?

The study offered ethical leadership can be a learned skill set based on:

• Leadership Core Skills

  • Self-Awareness;

  • Vision;

  • Goals Planning and Setting; and

  • Communication.

• Leadership Support Skills

  • Delegation;

  • Feedback;

  • Time Management;

  • Self Management;

  • Problem Solving; and

  • Decision Making.

• Good Leadership

  • Ethical Leadership.

The study suggests leadership styles (Servant, Authentic, and others) are not as relevant as skills, as most leaders move between styles based on the environment they are in at the time. However, there is a recognition that the leadership style does impact organizational performance.

From an application perspective, the study focuses on the leader’s ability to maintain an ethical approach while providing incentives for good behavior and disincentives for bad ones.

Reaction

What is ethical leadership? Isn’t that response based on your culture, morality, and environment? Is there a global recognition of what is ethically acceptable in all business situations? We believe that it is as clear as mud, and without a solid foundation for the core topic and a clear, articulate end goal, how can you define a repeatable and successful path to the desired results? We missed the study’s clear link between ethics and value, but that may be a culturally understood norm from the author’s perspective.

Do the learned skills look like a set needed for a successful leader, ethical or not? What makes them ethical?

What is your reaction?

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Citation: Allahar, H. (2021). Ethical Behavior and Leadership Effectiveness. Academia Letters, Article 3528. httsp://doi.org/10.20935/AL3538

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