- Title
- How do ethical and fair leadership practices impact on the workplace?
- Creator
- Beithaji, Sargoun
- Relation
- University of Newcastle Research Higher Degree Thesis
- Resource Type
- thesis
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Higher Doctorate - Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)
- Description
- Leadership is an important theme of social science as it relates to human cooperation from household decision-making to the complex management of organisations and states. In organisations a great place to work is where employees trust their leaders and are respected and valued as human beings. The employees’ treatment with dignity and respect should not be compromised. Therefore, leaders’ ethical and fair treatment of employees is very important as unethical and unfair treatments can negatively impact on the workplace, individuals and their families, and society. This study extends knowledge on the importance of leader–employee relationships. It highlights the impacts of leaders’ unethical and unfair behaviours and practices on workplaces. It does so through examining leadership literature related to ethics and fairness. Additionally, it conducts sixteen confidential individual interviews with leaders and employees currently working at different levels in the private sector, not-for-profit organisations and government sector, including parliamentarians/politicians. This study considers the important factors (power, self-interest and trust) impacting leader–employee relationships and examines popular leadership styles such as ethical, spiritual, authentic, transformational, servant leadership and responsible leadership. As most of these leadership styles do not adequately address the concerns of leaders’ unethical and unfair behaviours and practices, the author saw it necessary to propose a new concept of leadership called cosmetic leadership. While cosmetic leadership is a new concept and to date has not been mentioned in leadership literature, this study considered different circumstances aiding this type of leaders to become leaders in the first place and then continue with their behaviours. The proposal of cosmetic leadership highlights some of the reasons for leaders’ unethical and unfair behaviours and practices. Further, this prompts the policy-makers to assess the effectiveness of their guiding principles, such as codes of conduct. Finally, the author trusts this study’s discussions will benefit the leadership literature and leader–employee relationships for the better.
- Subject
- leadership; leader-employee relationships; trust; dignity; respect; employees' treatment; ethics and fairness; unethical and unfair behaviour and practices; popular leadership styles; cosmetic leadership; workplace; power; self-interest
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1403568
- Identifier
- uon:35188
- Rights
- Copyright 2019 Sargoun Beithaji
- Language
- eng
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