LEADERSHIP AND ETHICS IN DECISION MAKING

BYLouis Brown Ogbeifun

FICMC, CEDR Accredited Mediator, ACIarb

TO L.E.A.D DELEGATES (Youth Leadership Summit)BONNY

24-10-2015

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CLASS PERCEPTION OF LEADERSHIP

What do you understand by leadership, who is your ideal leader and why?

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LEADERSHIP

• Leading a group, an organization, a people or a country.

• Position of authourityAppointedElectedForce of coercion Ascendency

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LEADERSHIP STYLES • Democratic

• Intuitive

• Autocratic

• Laissez-faire

• Situational

• Benevolent

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SKILLS…• Envision the future and act• Demonstrate personal effectiveness and

efficiency in the use of resources Sharpen the saw Top of the game Infectious optimist

• Demonstrate effective communication skills• Demonstrate Courage• Demonstrate accountability at all times• Law abiding • Visionary • Inspirational • Charismatic

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LEADERSHIP…

• Make difficult decisions especially in challenging times as we have in the global oil and gas industry now. Work to have equilibrium between

emotions, actions and decisions Combine emotional intelligence skills

with ethical values Achieve set targets Maintain face with constituents Hope carrier Sponge Stress pacifier

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LEADERSHIP…

• Decisions made by any leader should have positive outcomes and of benefits (tangible and intangible) for the constituents. Situational in challenging times

• However, when plans do not go as planned, a leader must accept responsibility for the actions and see failure as a building block for success, prop the followers and give them hope.

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HOW DO YOU MAKE DECISIONS AS A LEADER?

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LEADERSHIP IN CHAOTIC SITUATION

• When armed robbers visit homes, when there are fire incidents, road accidents etc; people usually do not have answers to the unfolding puzzles.

• The first instinct is that survival and the leader gives the command of what others should do. The next step is thoughts of clearing the externalities and then restore order

• So every leader must understand that at such times, conventional leadership tools might not help so they resort to situational decisions.

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RESOLVING CHALLENGES IN ROUTINE ENVIRONMENT

The day to day routine running of an organizations requires only simple leadership skills like communication, delegation, doing the right thing as a leader, walking the talk and leading by example to pass on the message to followers.

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5 LEADERS WITH HIGH MORAL AND ETHICAL STANDARDS

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ETHICS OR BEING ETHICAL

• Most difficult concept to define • Flow from self. • Innate desire to live a meaningful

life that is guided by personal set principles, values and ethos.

• One person’s ethical standard might greatly defer depending on the realm of morality, religion, nurture, nature and other associated values.

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ETHICS…

• Desire dependent on:Reflective living after a particular role

model Spiritual or political extraction. Example

of a seventeen year

• A personal ethical system may also run on an aggregation of defined ethical standards, which guides one to behave or act in a particular manner.

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ETHICS…

• “a set of interrelated values concerning preferable modes of conduct.”

- William D. Hitt

“your personal ethical system is your map of the good life”

- M. Scott Peck in William D Hitt

“your ethical system is your set of ground rules for making what you consider to be a “right” decision.

- Mark Pastin in William D Hitt

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ETHICS…

• Made up of a system of values• Values defined by the person to

whom such ethics are ascribed• Conscious effort to do what is right,

act and live well• That these values inherently translate

into modes of conduct and ultimately a way of life

• That it is a deliberate attempt to pursue and do right through the setting of ground rules to guide the person at all times.

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ETHICAL DECISION MAKING THE FOUR MAIN ETHICAL MODELS)

End-results ethics by John Stuart Mill (1806—1873) states, “the moral rightness of an action is determined by considering its con sequences”.

Rule ethics by Imnianuel Kant(1724—1804) states that “the moral rightness of an action is determined by laws and standards”

Social contract ethics by Jean Jacques Rousseau (1112—1778) states, “the moral rightness of an action is determined by the customs and norms of a particular community”.

Personalistic ethics Martin Ruber(1878—1965) states, The moral rightness of an action is determined by one’s conscience.

Source: William D. Hitt-Ethics in Leadership: putting theory into practice 

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ETHICAL DECISION MAKING…

• Consequences are seriously considered before decisions are taken at the end-results level.

• Laws guidelines and procedures are considered before decisions are made at the rule ethics level.

• Norms, culture and customs of a particular organization, society etc.; are taken into consideration before taking decision at the social ethics level.

• Personal convictions used in reaching decisions at the personalistic level..

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TOGETHER WE FACE THE FUTURE

The battle of Kruger

Source: www.youtube.ng/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM

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TOGETHER WE FACE THE FUTURE

Which of the teams in the battle of Kruger won

battle and why?

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WHAT IF AS A LEADER IN ANY OF THE STRATA YOU ARE CONFRONTED WITH THESE, WHAT WILL YOU DO?

• Economy - Oil at $20 per barrel• Masses - If only the wealthy have

access to political power and wealth.• Battle for survival: Faced with a knotty

and chaotic situation or life threatening situation like you just watched?

• Society: Suddenly those who care for you without notice reject you, and you have no where to go.

• Home: Armed Bandits enter your house without you having any form of defence.

• STRATEGIC THINKING AS IN THE NEXT SLIDE BECOMES IMPERATIVE

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Source: http://kotelnikov.biz/coach/thinking_strategic_7principles.html

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NUGGET

Great leaders understand how to balance emotion with reason and make decisions that positively impact themselves, their employees, their customers and stakeholders, and their organizations.(Decision Analysis By: LARINA KASE, PSYD, MBA)

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NUGGET

When leaders delegate responsibilities, they help team members hone their skills and grow on the job. It enables them have hands-on, on their assignments and feel important in the decision making process. It makes the team proud to own the process. This at the end frees the leader from routine jobs in order to focus more on important organizational and critical business decisions.

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(C) www.leadsummitbonny.org 2015

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTNigeria would have been greater if the leaders had been committed to the ethics of leadership and making decisions based on the traits exhibited by great leaders at various times. I thank Pastor Maxwell Ogaga for this great initiative and for inviting me to speak to the youths who are our future leaders. I found strength to do this after reading the critical decision of the Seals in their deadly assignment in very chaotic and challenging situation on Osama Bin Laden; the great works of David J. Snowden and Mary E. Boone on Leader’s Framework for Decision Making, William D. Hitt: Ethics and Leadership: Putting Theory Into Practice; Larina Kase: Great Leaders are Great Decision-Makers- Three Qualities to Take the Paralysis out of Decision Analysis. This process has also afforded me a personal insight into how great leaders make decisions. We have started this journey together, we must follow through the plans of mentoring these youths to become great leaders of tomorrow. Thank you.

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SOURCE OF MATERIALS AND ANIMATIONS

http://www.forbes.com/sites/brentgleeson/2012/11/07/4-ways-for-leaders-to-make-a-decision/

http://gsbm-med.pepperdine.edu/gbr/audio/fall2010/Kase-decisions.mp3]

https://www.google.com.ng/search?q=cynefin+framework&biw=991&bih=589&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0CCwQsARqFQoTCN2Sh6nD48gCFQmYGgodn28F5A

http://www.heykiki.com/blog/2014/05/08/tips-for-excelling-in-english-class-discussions/

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