ETHICAL FAILURES BASED ON LEADERSHIP MALFUNCTION

PROJECT PROPOSED BY:

AMAN GUPTA

BBA LLB (Hons.)

Roll No. 1811

PROPOSED TO:

DR. MANOJ MISHRA

FEBRUARY, 2019

FOR BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT FOR THE DEGREE OF BBA LLB(HONS.)

CHANAKYA NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY

NYAYA NAGAR, MITHAPUR, PATNA-800001
 INTRODUCTION

Ethics is a philosophical term originating from Greek word “ethos” meaning custom or
character. It is concerned with describing and prescribing moral requirements and behaviors,
which suggests that there are acceptable and unacceptable ways of behaving that serve as a
function of philosophical principles. Ethical behavior is defined as behavior which is morally
accepted as “good” and “right” as opposed to “bad” or “wrong” in a given situation.

We define leadership as the art of persuading a follower to want to do the things, activities
that the leader sets as goals. The role of leaders is therefore in the process of directing the
individual’s behaviour towards a desired goal. Leaders vary depending on the individual
leadership style that stems from personality characteristics. Some leaders, particularly
charismatic and transformational, have personal power through which they engage
employees, whereas other exert the positional, legitimate power.

Ethical leadership is a construct that appears to be ambiguous and includes various diverse
elements. Instead of perceiving ethical leadership as preventing people from doing the wrong
thing, authors propose that we need to view it as enabling people to do the right thing. An
ethical leader is a person living up to principles of conduct that are crucial for him. To be an
ethical leader one needs to adhere to a more universal standard of moral behaviour. Leading
ethically is believed to be a process of inquiry –asking questions about what are right and
what is wrong –and a mode of conduct –setting the example for followers and others about
the rightness or wrongness of particular actions.

Ethical failures are essentially volitional, not cognitive. volitional pressures take a smaller
part in ethical failures by leaders. Leaders are particularly susceptible to ethical failures
because of their commitment to the importance of the end result. This might be to achieve
group, organizational, or societal goals even when goal achievement is in the interests of the
followers. The extend of importance of the goal ads justification to making moral exceptions
of themselves.
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

 To study how exactly leadership malfunctions and unethical decisions because of

limited knowledge and mistaken beliefs might lead to ethical failures in leadership.

HYPOTHESIS

 Ethical Failures in Leadership are fundamentally cognitive rather than volitional.

 Unethical decisions by ethical leaders might lead to ethical failures in leadership.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

 The researcher would like to undertake the doctrinal method of research.

SOURCES OF DATA

 The researcher will make use of both the sources i.e., primary as well as secondary.

TENTATIVE CHAPTERISATION

 Understanding Ethical Failures in Leadership

o Causes of The Ethical Leadership Failures
o Preventing Ethical Leadership Failures
 Research Methodology
 Finings / Suggestions
 Case Study
 Conclusion
 Bibliography

LIMITATION

 There is a time limitation for the researcher to finish the research.

  The researcher is limited to his own self for the research.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

 http://www.cityethics.org/node/100.
 http://www.e-sinclair.com/UnderstandingEthicalFailures(TerryPrice)aReview.pdf.
 http://www.ef.uni-lj.si/docs/osebnestrani/MIhelic_Lipicnik_Tekavcic_2010_clute.pdf.
 https://www.forbes.com/sites/roncarucci/2016/09/13/early-lessons-from-wells-fargo-3-
ways-to-prevent-ethical-failure/#2b8bcdcc105b.
 https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/01437730010335418?fullSc=1&journal
Code=lodj.