Applied Business Ethics- Portfolio of Evidence

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Appendix A: The Ethical Leadership Debate ………..……………………… 3

Appendix B: The Case of the Holiday …….…………….…………………… 4

Appendix C: Interpersonal and Team-working skills.………………….….. 6

Reference …………………………………………………………………………8

Appendix A: The Ethical Leadership Debate

In the debate on the Ethical Leadership, the class was split into teams; each representing different characters in the case study and debated among each other on behalf of their characters.

In the debate, Team 1 who was representing Mike Gustavsson argued against the notion of the debate topic as he believed that an ethical leader should influence their employee by setting a sample for the employees, together with the proper corporate governance at the top management would benefit the individuals in the organization as well as society (Treviño, Hartman, & Brown, 2000; Tariq & Abbas, 2013). However, the observers questioned Mike’s honesty in his involvement in a protest against the company his daughter worked at. Despite Mike seem to have conflicting against his perspective of ethical leadership, I believed that Mike on stage 5 of Kohlberg’s moral development; social-contact orientation as he clearly have his own personal value and opinion on the law and was willing to take action when he believed a change is required (Kohlberg & Hersh, 1977).

Meanwhile, Jan Edwards represented by Team 2 embodied the ethical leadership by showing active efforts to influence her employee’s ethical behaviors, one of the most important aspects of ethical leadership (Brown & Treviño, 2006). She also argued against the debate topic using the success of the company as a proof that ethical leadership and corporate governance were efficient and beneficial to both the shareholder and society. However, some of teams believed that that Jan’s pride and desire to impose her employee on the charity work shown sign of egoism (Regis, 1980) and contradict with the feminist...