LD560 Ethics In Leadership

Task:

1)Identify the seven signs that an organization is in danger of ethical collapse.

2)Identify three ideas/leadership principles from the course that you believe will contribute the most to your personal ethical development. Describe actual situations in which you will use them, and why you believe them to be of value.

3)Create your own metaphor to describe ethical and unethical leadership. Explain your metaphor based on principles from the course and the text. 

4)How have you become more of an ethical expert as a result of completing the text and the course?

Discussion Probe

1.If you were a state legislator, would you support a bill to strengthen mandatory immunization requirements by eliminating personal belief exemptions? Why or why not?

1.Can you think of other examples of where employees knew of corporate misbehavior and kept silent? Why did they fail to speak up?

2.What should be the punishment, if any, for those who knew of the emissions software but didn’t report this information?

3.Is offering amnesty an effective strategy for uncovering fraud?

4.What contextual pressures kept employees from speaking up about the emissions program?

5.What additional steps should VW take to change its corporate culture? To encourage employees to share bad news?

6.How much blame for the deception should be placed on top-level VW executives? On the board of directors?

7.Does being a libertine automatically disqualify someone from becoming a good leader?

8.How much should citizens be concerned about the private lives of their political leaders? Are Americans too concerned? Should the French be more concerned?

9.Should DSK be allowed to return to a role in government?

10.What can followers do to prevent their leaders from feeling entitled?

11.What other factors, aside from power, might encourage leaders to believe they are entitled to ignore the rules that apply to everyone else?

12.Do you agree with Brooks that modern Western culture makes the self the center of the universe?

13.What is the value of viewing humans as “crooked timber”? What might be the dangers of this perspective?

14.Is humility the foundation for character development? Why or why not?

15.Which provisions of the Humility Code to you agree with? Take issue with?

16.Can you think of other prominent leaders who struggled to develop their character while wrestling with their weaknesses? How did they cope with their flaws, and what virtues did they develop?

17.What virtues does Al Buehler demonstrate? What virtues does he hope to develop in others?

18.What does it mean to you to “start at the finish line?”

19.How does starting at the finish line compare to Covey’s second habit: Begin with the end in mind?

20.How does Buehler serve as a moral exemplar?

21.What can we learn from Buehler’s example and advice?