Ethical Leadership for Organizational Excellence

This paper examines an important role of ethical leadership in this age of fast pace changing world. It throws light on core elements of ethical leadership in an organization. Being an ethical leader, individual thinks about long term consequences, challenges and benefits of the different decisions which he makes in an organization. Ethical leaders are always characterized as humble, conscientious, inclusive and considerate. They are also concerned for a greater good, striving for fairness in their actions. They are never afraid to take responsibility. The main motto of ethical leader is to set high ethical standards which are suitably to be infused and followed. They create strong influence in terms of instilling ethical values of the organization by setting quintessential example of their behavior. This paper also focuses of different strategies to be used by ethical leader for integrating concept of ethical leadership into the organization. A real ethical leader is one who serves himself as role model to their followers.