Matakuliah
Tahun
Versi
: MPG09344-010 / Leadership and Organisation
: 2007
: versi/revisi 1
Pertemuan 25
Ethical Leadership and Diversity
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Learning Outcomes
After studying this chapter students should be able to:
• Understand the difficulties in defining and assessing ethical
leadership.
• Understand the major conceptions of ethical leadership and
how they relate to current leadership theories.
• Understand how gender issues have been studied and the
limitations of this research.
• Understand the findings in research on gender differences in
leadership.
• Understand how the difficulties of studying cross-cultural
leadership and limitations of past research on this subject.
• Understand why it is important to manage diversity and
provide equal opportunity to all members of an organisation.
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Outline Materi
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Ethical Leadership
Gender and Leadership
Leadership in Different Cultures
Managing Diversity
Summary
Review and Discussion Questions
Cases
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Ethical Leadership and Diversity
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Ethical Leadership
• General conceptions of ethical leadership
• Diverse perspectives on ethical leadership
– Burns
– Heifetz
– Greenleaf
• Personal Integrity and Ethical Leadership
• Dilemmas in Evaluating Ethical Leadership
– Influencing expectations
– Influencing values and beliefs
– Multiple stakeholders
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• Promoting ethics versus opposing unethical
practices
– Promoting an ethical climate
– Opposing unethical practices
• Determinants of ethical leadership
• Future research on ethical leadership
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Gender and Leadership
• Sex-based discrimination
– Implicit theories
– Stereotypes and role expectations
– Other explanations
– Feminine advantage
• Research on Gender Differences
– “there is little reason to believe that either
women or men make superior managers, or
that women and men are differetn types of
manager. …” Powel (1990, p.74)
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Leadership in Different Cultures
• Importance of crosscultural research
• Cultural influences on
leadership behavior
• Types of research and
difficulties
• Cross-cultural
differences in
leadership behavior
• The globe project
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• Examples of cultural dimensions
– Power distance
– Individualism
– Uncertainty avoidance
– Gender egalitarianism
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Managing Diversity
• Foster appreciation and tolerance of
diversity
– Guidelines for managing diversity
• Set an example in your own behavior of
appreciation for diversity
• Encourage respect for individual differences
• Promote understanding of different values, beliefs,
and traditions
• Explain the benefits of diversity for the team or
organization
• Encourage and support others who seek to
promote tolerance of diversity
• Provide equal opportunity
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Closing
• Summary
– Conceptions of Ethical Leadership
– Leaders’ ethical behaviors
– Sex-based discrimination
– Cross-cultural Leadership
– Management of Diversity
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• Review and Discussion Questions
• Case
– Madison, Jones, and Conklin
• Companion Website : Exercises and
Reading
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