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Description:
Ethical Leadership suggests ways in which leaders and managers can improve and manage the ethical culture in their organizations. Sustaining an ethical culture is more important than ever. Businesses that train their staff to speak up, to be ethically engaged and to understand codes of ethics tend to financially outperform those that don’t by a significant margin.
In an increasingly complex and fast-changing world, business leaders need a better understanding of what it means to run a responsible organization, how to promote an ethical culture, and how they can develop their moral compass.
Andrew Leigh argues that ethical culture shows in the actual behaviour and attitudes of all staff, rather than in policy documents. His book is full of practical strategies, case studies and action points to help leaders improve and manage ethical culture and climate in their organizations. Andrew introduces a working framework for culture change and covers a wide range of related topics such as:
• leadership and ethics
• employee engagement and ethics
• communication and ethics
• rewards an ethical culture brings to an organization
• aligning culture, ethics and strategy
This book should be an essential read for practising managers, high-level corporate leaders, HR practitioners and those from academia who must study the topic as part of many standard courses on business.
Contents:
Introduction
Part One- Making sense of ethical leadership
Chapter 01: Making sense of culture • What is culture? • Culture shifts • Avoiding the rocks • Assessing your culture
Chapter 02: The ethical advantage: what’s in it for your organization? • Some specific benefits of an ethical culture • Recognizing an ethical company • Staying clear of trouble: avoiding risk • Why values matter • Making sense of ethics
Chapter 03: Towards an ethical culture • Myths that can undermine the culture • Moving beyond the myths • Building a strong ethical foundation • Where do we start building? • A systems approach • A step-by-step approach • Entropy
Part Two- Organizational requirements
Chapter 04: Driving forces for an ethical culture • External drivers • Expect resistance • Internal drivers • Values driven • Employee expectations • Wholehearted engagement • A new driver
Chapter 05: Leadership and management of ethical cultures • Trust • Authenticity • Tone • Engagement • General engagement • Ethical engagement
Chapter 06: Systems and procedures • Policies • Codes and rules • Metrics • Decisions rules • Business processes • Reporting structures • Danfoss – reporting structure
Chapter 07: Communication strategy • A continuous free flow of communications • A targeted approach • Alignment • Trust in managers and leaders • Accountability • Enlivening communication • Persistent monitoring • Make it an obsession
Chapter 08: Champions and exemplars • Role models • Leadership on the line
Part Three Individual requirements
Chapter 09: Learning: will and skill • Will • Skill • Developing people’s skills • Is training cost-effective? • Can’t it all be done online? • Leaders need help too
Chapter 10: Learning: rehearse • Creating ethical conduct • Is this ethical? • Rehearsing for real • Behavioural simulation • Action planning and action learning
Chapter 11: Sustaining: support • Raise awareness • Sharpen sensitivity • Grow confidence • Build courage • Conclusion
Chapter 12: Sustaining: rewards • Building the reward strategy • Trigger 1: Identify • Trigger 2: Review • Trigger 3: Communicate • Trigger 4: Train • Trigger 5: Collect • Trigger 6: Monitor • Trigger 7: Evaluate and refine
Part Four Sustaining the shift
Chapter 13: Over the horizon: the future of ethical leadership • Globalization • Society shifts (societal changes) • Demographic shifts • Technological advance • Requirements for a low-carbon economy • Over the horizon • Summing up
Resources
The Ethical Leadership Litmus Test
Index ISBN - 9780749469566
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Pages : 240
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