This exercise is intended to encourage you to reflect carefully on your current views on leadership and to stimulate their interest in learning more about ethical leadership. This exercise is also to encourage you to evaluate and make decisions involving ethical dimensions as a member of a group. [1: Adapted from Richard Daft’s The Leadership Experience ]
Group Number ____________
Ethics-Related Statement
Consensus
Other perspectives (different than consensus) and related comments
It is wrong for leaders to accept gifts from followers.
Leaders must consider the consequences of their actions and the effects they will have.
Leaders must always be role models for all followers.
Under all conditions, leaders must ensure that all followers participate in the decision making.
It is enough for leaders to become an expert, as human relationships do not matter.
Leaders must act in accordance with the principle of equality.
Answer Key: 1 ) Never; 2) In Some Cases; 3) In Most Cases; 4): In All Cases
