Personal Ethical Leadership Profile Describing Your Own Essay

personal ethical leadership profile describing your own MORAL COMPASS, which guides your behavior and actions and decision-making. Describe the fundamental ethical theories and concepts that inform your MORAL COMPASS. I am a manager in a United Health Care position. A manager in the public or not-for-profit sectors can be considered as a person with vision. A good manager is driven and is committed to achieving her goals and vision. Managers are the catalyst within the organization responsible for focusing their attention on problems that need to be fixed, and for tackling the situation at hand. This reminds me of Cooper's treatment of managerial responsibility where he writes that there are three levels of responsibility: objective responsibility -where clear expectations and accounts of accountability are existent at each level of the organization; subjective responsibility -- teammates in organization are involved in organizational decision and policy making; heightening the objective and subjective levels of expectation so that importance of achievement of goals is felt. The whole is implemented via organizational culture where ethics is implemented on both public and private setting (Cooper, Chapter 7, pt. 2). It is in this way that the manager contains internal and external control of organization whilst operating in an ethical manner.

The manager's speech and conduct too must be constantly guided by ethical reflection. Reflection feeds into ethical decision making and responsible behavior, therefore the administrator must constantly reflect on his/her actions (Coooper, Chapter 7; pt. 3).

As manager, I have to be a determined, motivated, and effective communicator. In essence, therefore, deontological ethics (doing what is right) directs me, as well as the categorical imperative of Kant (where I treat others regardless of who they are in the way that I myself would like to be treated). I also try to be a transformative leader where my own simulation of ethical leadership encourages people to work ethically toward their goals. That is my moral compass.

Describe the ethical leader you wish to be and how you will use your MORAL COMPASS to guide and influence those you work with and your respective organizations, now and throughout your career.

I wish to be the kind of transformative leader described by Cooper where I fuse internal and external responsibility into effective actualization of gaols whilst remaining humble in my role as manager and dedicated to my employees.

I also wish to be guided by rational reflection rather than emotion. I wish to be led by my emotional intelligence that will guide me in empathetic listening of others and in controlling my emotions for the organization's good and in order to best motivate and help others.

To be an ethical manager means that I maintain an honest and transparent front. I…