Power can be defined as the ability to bring about changes in the immediate environment. Power can be exercised by an individual, or a group over other individuals, groups, or organizations.

Based on your reading for this week:

How would an ethical leader and an unethical leader use power? Provide hypothetical or real examples to support your answer.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post a brief statement that discusses how an ethical leader and an unethical leader would use power. Provide hypothetical or real examples to support your answer.

Required Readings

Course Text: The ethics of leadership by Joanne B. Ciulla

 

• Chapter 3, "Duties of Leaders and Followers"

 

Chapter 3 provides an overview of the dynamics of duties and explains the difference between moral obligations and responsibilities.

 

Focus on Confucius’s ethics, and review the subject-specific case studies.

Course Text: Principle-centered leadership by Stephen R. Covey

 

• Chapter 9, "Principle-Centered Power"

 

Chapter 9 focuses on the factors that help in building a leader’s power. The chapter also explains the impact of power on the followers.

 

Focus on the three types of power and tools of power.

 

• Chapter 10, "Clearing Communication Lines"

 

Chapter 10 explains the attitudes and behaviors required for clearing communication lines. The chapter also covers the basic communication issues and methods of resolving them.

 

Focus on how perception and credibility problems of people can be resolved.

 

• Chapter 11, "Thirty Methods of Influence"

 

Chapter 11 focuses on how to have a positive influence on the lives of people around us. The chapter also describes 30 methods of influence.

 

Focus on the three categories of influence and the three big mistakes of influence.

 

• Chapter12, " Eight Ways to Enrich Marriage and Family Relationships"

 

Chapter 12 focuses on how to maintain a healthy marriage and family relationships.

 

Focus on the eight principle-based practices for strengthening family relationships.

 

• Chapter 13, "Making Champions of Your Children"

 

Chapter 13 explains the factors required to make champions of the people who are related to you in your personal and professional lives.

 

Focus on the 10 suggested keys that help in making champions of the people around you.