Ethics-Tools
Ethics-tools to assist individuals and groups to 'make right or good decisions'. Includes ethics-tools for workplace and businesses, team issues and assessment.
Donna Rae Scheffert, author, is a retired Leadership Development Specialist from the University of Minnesota Extension. She spent over 20 years creating leadership information, tools and training. She is the owner of online-leadership-tools.com Scheffert also authors "Making Change" in the Washington Times Communities. How Does Ethics Relate to Leadership?It is essential that leaders include an assessment of ethics - the qualities and impacts of their actions on others. Ethics-tools can help.
“Persons with integrity are trusted with leadership, executing our collective values and goals and making decisions that affect us all. They exemplify human values despite enormous
pressures toward expediency and self-interest. Such individuals who have achieved respected leadership positions are held up as examples for all to follow. What Are Characteristics of Ethical Leaders?Ethics-Tool to Evaluate LeadershipRespect Others – treat others as ends in themselves and never a means to ends, listen closely, are tolerant of opposing points of view, make others feel competent, treat others as worthy human beings Serve Others – place stakeholder’s and follower’s welfare foremost in their plans, mentor and empower others, practice stewardship, act in ways that benefit others and the greater good Show Justice – treat people in an equal manner, demonstrate fairness, communicate rules and reasons for allocation of resources/rewards/ punishments, explain reasons for differential treatment of others Are Honest – tell the truth, represent reality as fully and completely as possible, are sensitive to attitudes and feelings of others, are trustworthy, reward honest behavior in the organization Build Community – influence others for a common goal that benefits leaders and followers, attend to the needs and demands of the community, build voluntary followership, advance the human condition Northouse, P.G. (2001). Leadership: Theory and practice (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Ethics-Tool Key ConceptsEthics-Tool to Discern Issues in Workplace or Business----Is leadership is concerned about “doing the right thing” - moving toward a beneficial end or do they do what they can 'get by with' without being caught? ---Does leadership assess why something should be done and who will benefit and who may not? ---Do leaders engage followers in a respectful, voluntary and community-enhancing relationship?
Check out this great online collection called the Ethics-Tool Kit What are Ethics?
It is about living and acting in ways that are consistent with principles of good behavior.
It is about doing the “right” thing. It is also about self-restraint; not doing something simply because you have the power to do so, not doing what you have the right to do if it is not the “right” thing to do,not doing what you want to do, even if it is within the legal limits. It can also refer to the study and development of a person’s own standards.
Although standards may be related to the beliefs of religions or faith traditions, it is not confined to particular religious beliefs, since it is much broader, including people from many religious or faith traditions, as well as people who do not practice a religion or faith tradition. It is not the same as following the law. Legal systems can incorporate standards, but standards may go well beyond legal obligations. It is not the same as following socially-accepted practices, since some social-accepted practices may actually violate ethical standards. It refers to well-based standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do. Standards impose reasonable obligations to refrain from certain behaviors; for example, rape, murder, stealing, assault, slander and fraud. Standards also encourage virtues; for example, honesty, caring, compassion, and loyalty. Standards can relate to rights; the right to privacy, the right to life, the right to freedom from injury and other rights. Check out these resources Private and Public Interests-Working Agreements and Ethics-Tools, Diversity, and Power
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