What is it about?
This brief article poses the question as to whether moral leadership serves to undermine organizational innovation in creating new and better products and services. Over time, most people have been drawn to charismatic leaders who appear to inspire employees and the public. But, oftentimes these leaders have proven to be bad for the company. Therefore, this article examines whether a return to more ethical and moral leadership can actually prove more beneficial to the organization's quest for greater innovation, employee motivation, and productivity.
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Why is it important?
Our findings show that moral leadership can actually inspire greater levels of innovation, employee motivation, and productivity in organizations. Therefore, organizations that focus on hiring ethical leaders rather than charismatic or popular leaders may actually accomplish organizational goals and achieve greater economic success.
Perspectives
As a researcher, one of the biggest issues that I have noted is a lack of emphasis on ethical leadership and its importance to today's organizational success. When organizations should be focusing efforts on stronger moral leadership to achieve financial goals, there appears to be a greater focus on other leadership and organizational issues. What I have tried to illuminate through this article is that moral leadership can and does support the accomplishment of organizational goals by helping inspire greater levels of employee trust, motivation, and productivity.
Dr Sandra G Nunn
University of Phoenix
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This page is a summary of: Does Moral Leadership Conflict With Organizational Innovation?, Journal of Leadership Studies, December 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/jls.21417.
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