What can leaders do to encourage followers to engage in ethical practices?

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Organizational leadership and ethics

In any organizational structure , it is always advisable and preferable to uphold ethical behavior within all departments . Ethics ensure positive altitudes and behaviors such as work performance , employee commitment , employee citizenship and job satisfaction . Failure to adopt ethics in an organization promotes deviance and counterproductive behavior that may ultimately be costly to the organization and its stakeholders . The best machinery to instill ethical issues in an organization has been said to

be leadership , regardless of the level Leaders shape informal and formal ethical cultures of an organization Since leadership ranks from low levels to the top of an organization , it is worth to believe that ethical culture can spread through the leadership pattern . Leaders do communicate moral conformation through punishments and rewards . They therefore reinforce normative and appropriate conduct . Performance appraisals also influence values and compliance orientation in daily activities (Muller , 2002 ,

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The actual roles of leaders in promoting ethics can be determined through analysis of cognitive moral development theory and moral psychology . To register the highest influence of ethical behavior leaders should promote social learning . Both transformational and charismatic leaders influence followers through identification and modeling processes . The perspective of social learning is that leaders should influence morality by modeling process , which is a method highly ranked in transmitting behaviors , attitudes and values . Followers learn what to do and what to avoid through observing how their leaders behave and the consequences of...