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THE SPIRITUAL CODE OF LEADERSHIP
The ethical culture in a corporation depends primarily on the nature of its leadership. If the leadership is ethical, the ethical culture easily percolates down to the level of the whole organization and its employees and inspired naturally by it.
A good leader can contribute to the :
■ (^) Creation of some ethical core values.
■ Setting of ethical goods and agenda for action.
■ Development of ethics programmes for the company.
■ Development of ethical culture.
■ Implementation of all ethical policies.
■ Settlement of all ethical dilemmas.
■ Resolution of all conflicts through ethical means.
Leader :
A leader is person who can lead a team of followers towards the right direction to achieve a particular goal. A political leader, however, is substantially different from an ethical leader. But a leader has the ability or power to guide the followers in a compelling way.
Types of leader:
A seminal contribution has been made by Daniel holdmon is recognizing six types of leadership in organization.
Leadership styles are :
- Affinitive leader - Values needs and emotions of people.
- Authoritative leader - Strong handed with a positive vision.
- (^) Coercive leader - Gets works done by imposing fear and punishment.
- Democratic leader - Depends on participation and teamwork.
- Coaching leader - Teaches the people how to work with skill and competence.
- Pace setting leader - Sets high standards and get the work quickly done.
As against the aforesaid six types of leadership proposed by Daniel Holdmon, a different type of classification of leadership is proposed here by the present author. In this scheme, we have the following seven types of leadersip which is somewhat fundamentally different from the one proposed Goldmon.
Proactive type - Taking the action on its own without waiting for the situation to arise.
Reactive type - Doing something by waying of reaction or solving the problem arises.
Creative type - Doing something new for the organization.
Creatively Destructive type - Destroying the old habits/culture or practice and creating something new.
Benevolent Dictator type - Working like a dictator but for the good of an organization and its stake holders.
Collaborate Cooperative type – Deciding everything on the basis of cooperation and collaboration. It is more democratic in orientation.
Radical Transformer type – Doing things in a radical way to improve the status of the organization by making structural changes.
Leadership and Power Structure:
A leader possesses certain inherent or acquired power and therefore, has the ability by virtue of his power to convince or compel others to follow a certain course of ethical action proposed by him, power remains important in the sense that is necessary for making and implementing effective ethical policies. However, for the present discussion, an attempt is made here to analyse the power bases in a broader manner and we propose the following seven critical power bases:
- Power accrues to a person because of his expertise and vast knowledge in a particular discipline.
- Power comes out of the official position might have been acquired by him on the basis of merit or nomination by a superior authority.
- Power maybe because of the person’s intimate and informal contact with the higher – ups who can make and unmake policies.
