Leadership and ethics are two important concepts that are often intertwined. Ethical leadership involves demonstrating conduct for the common good that is acceptable and appropriate in every area of life.
It includes creating an ethical organizational culture, leading by example, and addressing stakeholder interests. Leadership, on the other hand, involves inspiring and guiding others towards a common goal or vision. Effective leaders must communicate their core values and make ethical decisions in both their personal and professional lives.
In summary, ethical leadership is about doing what is right for the greater good while leading others towards a shared vision or goal.
I think the most important thing to remember here is the bifurcation of leadership and ethics. They are separate notions and one can be an acknowledged leader with power without ethics or a sense of conscience (Unfortunately Africa has many examples of this ) If the lacuna between the 2 subjects can be bridged, we have the best of all worlds as ethical leadership creates 'flourishing' and 'eudaimonia' and creates a collective sense of 'good', 'bad', 'right' and 'wrong'. Sad to say, there are few examples of this politically or in industry/commerce. Leadership abilities seem to be recognised despite an absence of 'ethics'.
Ethical leadership refers to leading people and making good decisions based on a defined set of values, such as fairness, accountability, trust, honesty, equality, and respect.
The best manager I ever had was when I was working in the community as a nurse practitioner. She had been a health visitor but was an excellent manager of a very varied healthcare team.
She was very supportive when I was gaining my funding for PhD and another nurse was taking my place for some of the time.
When I was in the role of nurse practitioner, she came to our clinical base once a week and we went to her base once a week, which made us feel very supported. If we did have problems, our manager would help us work through them.
She had a personal assistant - known as a PA - who was equally supportive. When our administrator (for our service of bladder and bowel health) had to go to our manager's base to work, instead of our clinical base, as the use of some geographical areas was being changed. But she felt far from comfortable in her new office surroundings. I saw her only briefly feeling 'down in the dumps', while she was moving in (as I mainly worked from my car or in the towns where my clinics were based). But shortly after our manager and her PA had made her feel welcome and wanted, she could not have been happier and stayed this way. They made her feel wanted and special.
So, to sum it up, the leadership by this manager was right for each one of us and she gave us what was appropriate for our needs. She treated us all as individuals.
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