ADMS 2511 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Rob Ford
1 May 2018
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ADMS 2511 Tutorial 18 Notes – Ethical Leadership
Introduction
• Authentic leaders know who they are, know what they believe in and value, and act on
those values and beliefs openly and candidly.
• Their followers consider them to be ethical people.
• The primary quality produced by authentic leadership is trust.
• Authentic leaders share information, encourage open communication, and stick to their
ideals.
• The result: People come to have faith in them.
• There has been limited research on authentic leadership to date.
• However, recent research indicates that authentic leadership, especially when shared
among top management team members, can create a positive energizing effect that
heightened firm performance.
• Authentic leadership is a promising way to think about ethics and trust in leadership
because it focuses on the moral aspects of being a leader.
• Transformational or charismatic leaders can have a vision and communicate it
persuasively, but sometimes the vision is wrong (as in the case of Hitler), or the leader is
more concerned with his own needs or pleasures, as in the case of former Toronto
mayor, Rob Ford.
• Researchers have begun to study the ethical implications in leadership.
• Why now?
• One reason may be the growing interest in ethics throughout the field of management.
• Another reason may be that ethical lapses by business leaders are never absent from
the headlines.
• Another may be the discovery that many past leaders—such as Martin Luther King Jr.
and John F. Kennedy—suffered ethical shortcomings.
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