Discuss the Roles of Ethics and Trust in Effective Leadership

The role of ethics and trust in leadership
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Introduction.
Leadership is a noble aspect in any venture involving a group of humans. In order to be able to have successful leadership, it is crucial for a leader to have ethics towards the subordinates. It is also crucial to cultivate trust in the subordinates so that leadership duties can be carried out smoothly. This paper analyses the importance of ethics and trust in leadership in view of the crucial impact that they have in the process of leadership. Any leadership that lacks the ingredients of ethics and trust is most likely to fail to achieve the targeted goals which the leadership aims to achieve. This aspect is applicable in all areas of life including business.
Ethics and trust
In any given organization, there is always need to have trust that is based on ethical orientation. In any good leadership, the leaders must be able to recognize the worth of the subordinates. Whisnant & Khasawneh (2014) assert that; the leader should not overlook the individual needs of the subordinates over the needs of the entire organization. This is the bottom line of ethics in leadership, whereby, the leader is able to visualize beyond the profitability of the organization. When the leader shows genuine concern to the subordinates, the followers are bound to trust the leader more and more. In turn, there ought to be more profitability than there would have been with leadership that is not oriented on ethics and trust.
Hasel (2013) propose that; in any given organization, there are two orientations in view of the leaders. Some leaders are viewed by their subordinates as ethical and trustworthy while others are not. In many business organizations there has been breach of ethics and trust by the leaders. This leads to mistrust of the leaders, not only by their subordinates but also by the community which contributes to the how well the business will do. Frisch & Huppenbauer (2014) assert that; with inconsideration of ethics and trust in business, the leaders end up being exposed while the businesses are destroyed. When the leaders are ethical and trustworthy, the subordinates are most likely to also become ethical in their undertakings. Ultimately, this leads to ethical groups as well as organizations.
It is a common trend that leaders set the paces in the organizations. Therefore, business leaders should endeavor to always portray ethics and trust in their undertakings so as to ensure that the subordinates can learn from them. As Taylor & Pattie (2014) found out; when leaders do not show ethics and trust, then the followers are bound to lack trust towards the leader. The subordinates are also most likely to fail to have ethical concerns.
Role of ethics and trust in achieving goals.
Organizations usually have goals which they endeavor to achieve in their undertakings. The leaders are expected to spearhead the achievement of those stipulated goals. In order to be able to achieve the aims of the organization, the leader must be able to integrate ethics and trust in their leadership. Ethics and trust help leaders to achieve both the long-term as well as the short term goals. This argument is based on teleological theory o...