Analyzing Ciulla's The State Of Leadership Ethics

In order to understand leadership ethics, we need to understand the difference between a leader and a manager, the difference between a good and a bad leader, and to know how to analyze the relationship between good and evil, duty and obligation, right and wrong, justice and fairness and also to understand the relationship with all humans and nature.

Ciulla in her article “The state of leadership ethics and the work that lies before us” stated that the main characteristics that need to be analyzed are power , altruism and self-interest, utilitarianism, followers and bad or dangerous leaders and moral mistakes.

In this paper we are going to discuss briefly those characteristics.

The leaders can influence their followers through rewards,

Ciulla gave a good example of an altruist but not ethical leader. She describes the situation when a terrorist leader carries out his mission as a suicide bomber and kills innocent people for a cause that he strongly believes in. (Ciulla, 2005)

A good leader will also the one that knows and does include other in their story.

The utilitarian judgments has to be done in order to help a large number of people but unfortunately can not apply as good to everyone (Ciulla, 200).. Everyone should have moral ethics and not only the leaders. But the acts of the leader can have stronger impact and will affect the lives of more people. A leader can be dangerous if his actions are bad because he can influence the followers to act unethical.

Moral mistakes are happening very often and are not necessary done in bad faith, for example, a leader can do something that he never learned that is wrong.

In case of an ethical conflict, an effective leader can come to a common point by engaging his followers in a discussion about the

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