The Ethical Leadership Debate

Part B

Appendix A

The ethical leadership Debate

The topic of the debate motion is about “This business school believes that ethical leadership is impossible in a shareholder focused economy.” I would talk about 4 different characters with different views in this debate. They are Mike, Jan, Mei-Hua and Dashi.

First of all, Mike Gustavsson is a retired lecturer of well-regarded University and active member of Greenpeace. He is disagree ethical leadership is impossible in a shareholder focused economy because  he believed if you have good people at the top of the company, making good decisions, and using good rules, then the company itself will be ethical. So he keys to producing good behavior. However his daughter Anna not same with him. Anna has changed from someone who used to care about the environment and social problems, to someone who works tremendously long hours and now seems utterly focused on her next bonus payment. However some people may argue that if the top of the company make good organizational ethical behavior can affect a good ethical company. How a father will not affect her daughter to become a good moral heart. Base on the stages of cognitive moral development theory, Mike is a post-conventional level at stage five. It is because he participated in his first Occupy protest that occupied the ground floor of the Alfaraft AB building for others in include his daughter.

Second, Jan Edwards is the CEO and founder of the company in USA. She is disagree the topic because she think ethical business can encourage employees to do social work. However new graduate managers are amongst the lowest contributors of time donation scheme because they disagree this approach.

According to Normative ethical theories, Jan is non- consequentialist because she treats everyone the same. She is consistency, universality and human dignity. Base on the stages of cognitive moral development theory, Jan is a post-conventional level at stage six for her participate in providing educational facilities and teaching businesses to manage their businesses which help create job opportunity in Guatemala.

Third, Mei-Hua Felung is a Senior Manager at International Pharmaceuticals Company WCP. She is disagree the topic because the Directors of WCP have an engagement strategy with charities in a number of third world countries. She think it can increase the image of the company and gain more profit for company. However some people think if WCP company right that they no need to paid for a $ 7bn out-of-court settlement to prevent the case going to prosecution for tax problem

Base on the stages of cognitive moral development theory, Mei-Hua is a conventional level at stage four for her believe that strong code of conduct and rules are important in moral and ethical businesses, and that profit and wealth generation, as well as those ethics, can work together. Also, she have for involved in developing a number of complete legal tax avoidance schemes, she and the other accountants are merely "playing within the rules".