Leadership Traits: The Power Corruption Cycle
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The Power Corruption Cycle
You have been asked to teach ethics to a group of managers. In one part of this course you will be discussing "corruption and ways to prevent its occurrence."
Describe the way mishandling power can lead to corruption and how occurs in organizations today. Use an example to illustrate it from your research.
What is emotional intelligence? How is it related to leadership? How is emotional intelligence related to different leadership traits? What leadership traits might prevent corruption, or promote it? How might training and development in the area of emotional intelligence and leadership prevent corruption and unethical behavior from developing in organizations?
Objective: Recognize situations that present potential legal and ethical issues and develop solutions for those issues.
Apply ethical reasoning skills and ethical theories to business situations.
Apply critical thinking skills to analyze business situations.
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People strive for power. With power, one can control people, money, self-actualization, situations, and gain more power. Power by its nature can corrupt. Decisions made by those in power can lead to good or can be detrimental to others. Power leads people to try to gain and retain power and sometimes that leads to corruption and poor ethical actions.
It is easy to judge the moral character of someone who has been accused or found guilty of ethical violations. People want to assume a certain type of person is more likely to be involved in non-ethical decision-making. They also quickly assume it is always for the person's own personal gain; the leader will make these decisions or take these poor ethical actions. Charismatic leaders who are faced with poor ethical behavior are seen as con men. ...
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