Leadership, Ethics and Proactivity

Leadership is like beauty: hard to define but easy to recognize when you see it? Bennis Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood of the earth? Burns Every leader by his own property must ensure their actions as well as being ethically proactive, able to make way for the results that indicate that its leadership. It is desirable that this does not contaminate its authenticity, which is generating new ideas, pass-positive results, product performance, sincerity, honesty, loyal to its promises, true to his group and all kinds of changes, changes that encourage their followers. It has been criticized so much honesty in the absence of some leaders who have taken advantage of, and others has left a lot to say ethics. Good leaders should also be charismatic, creative, innovative, generating a new paradigm that is different from those who achieved their glory with their actions. Must be proactive, always changing generator, transformer to keep his supporters motivated, supporting ethics. Values, the latter aspect that has left a lot to say, especially in political leadership. Considering the importance of the issue we have taken into account as we lay the School of Education, Mental, gives us about the topic under consideration, that from the 1980s there is a turning point in leadership studies .

If we were to give a reason for this may indicate that you are in a parallel shift in the consideration of the people within organizations. And this, why? On one hand it begins to take into account the dignity of people. And secondly, you begin to perceive more qualified and trained workforce. Workers are becoming more prepared, more formados.Esto means that realizes that people are not able to manipulate, deceive, coerce, ... or at least not permanently. Begins to be important work to make sense and lead by example. Not worth the 'Do as I say but not what I do.' People start to be very sensitive to inconsistencies and this makes injusticias.Y begin to lose strength paradigms mentioned in the previous section and new ones begin to emerge. Among these, above all, we highlight two: On one hand you are trying to distinguish between the figures of leader and manager, and try to see if they are figures that can occur in the same person or not. On the other hand, transactional leadership that opposes the transformer.

No doubt, many leaders have left to say about his performance, as it is discovered that will perform the duties of his style, behavior, behavior and even his ethics, which has left a lot to say, something that not only observed in business, but in the same policy. Generate results that are not what they expected his followers, that lead to conflicts frustrations, complaints. This type of leadership has much to say I doubt, becoming hated, criticized, with many opponents, who oppose him seriously affecting those who put their trust. School of Education said Mental, which is taken into account, the leader must be ethical or not, this indicates is important to present the thesis Zaleznik (1991). So, what are the three traits of leadership claims as necessary for business: Substance of leadership and imagination. The substance of business is business and this requires specific talents. Leadership is about what to do. Not enough to just social roles or relationships, we need a useful task to perform. It is not just to have 'people skills'. Imagination is the ability to notice and seize opportunities.

The imagination can be industrial, financial or personnel comercial.Influencia. The "mystique of management 'is the negation of personal influence. There are many forms of influence among equals, among other ... The leader arouses positive emotions, has the capacity to influence the beliefs and behaviors of their followers. He is said to have charisma. Charisma is ambivalent. You can create dependency, but when it seeks to serve a good purpose is positive. Personal influence is leadership, not when it serves no more to increase by decreasing the ego of the leader of his followers, but when it promotes growth and prosperity followers of moral empresa.Dimensión. To avoid the dangers of manipulation comes to the ethical dimension of leadership. Today there is much talk of ethics, in part due to increased fraud and corruption. It is spreading the trend of top management to systematically deny their responsibility. Guilt is always lower echelons. This disclaimer vitiates the notion of leadership. Definitely adds Mental Education School, which for Zaleznik (1991) the leader must necessarily be ethical. After pointing out that in organizations there has been a forgotten man at calls for a new leadership, a leadership with three main pillars: competition (knowing what is done), the personal influence in the service of people and organization and the moral dimension.

If you look at the second and third pillars are clearly referring to the ethical component of leadership. Not enough that the leader knows the business, which is good in the field working, should be ethical. Very interesting also what is said, it is considered that the new paradigms call for ethical leadership, if you ask contributors also agree on the ethical dimension as a fundamental aspect of leadership. When asked what they ask the collaborators a leader, especially highlighting the honesty (he was the most outstanding quality and by far on the other). If you look at the other three features we can see similarities with the other two traits that says Zaleznik (1991) in addition to moral leadership. The employees want a leader with vision and inspire them, to know where to go and encourage them to go in that direction. Zaleznik (1991) we spoke to the personal influence grow aimed at individuals and the organization. A leader with a vision who knows how to transmit and to involve colleagues from the same has a great personal influence.

Moreover, it seeks to lead others towards where you want but put at the service of a vision that integrates workers and looking for a better organization. The contributors call for competition, Zaleznik (1991) mentioned the substantive leadership, which amounts to the same * Source: School Mental education