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- Impact of Teachers’ Ethical Leadership Behaviour:A Students’ Perspective
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This paper is an attempt to understand the concept of ethical leadership, its key elements and student’s perception on ethical leadership behaviour towards their teachers in their academic organizations and also the way it influences their attitude towards actions and decisions they take. This is an empirical research study based on student’s perceptions studying in institutes of western Uttar Pradesh including Mathura, Agra and Aligarh region. Weighted average agreement score was used for analysis of the data. The findings suggest students have a mixed feeling regarding exhibiting the art of ethical leadership by their teachers and hence this paper underlines the need for improving the ethical leadership skills in contemporary scenario.
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1 Institute of Business Management, GLA University, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, IN
2 Indian Institute of Management, Kashipur, Uttarakhand, IN
1 Institute of Business Management, GLA University, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, IN
2 Indian Institute of Management, Kashipur, Uttarakhand, IN
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International Journal on Leadership, Vol 6, No 1 (2018), Pagination: 36-45Abstract
Good leaders are known for their guidance, inspiration, motivation and for providing direction to the followers towards the right directions of life whether in social or in work life. They act as facilitators and mentors for guiding followers’ behaviour and actions. The ethical component of leadership behaviour makes their job more answerable towards actions and decisions they take. The Ethical leadership behaviour focuses on constructive use of social power in making decisions, taking good actions and positively influencing followers.This paper is an attempt to understand the concept of ethical leadership, its key elements and student’s perception on ethical leadership behaviour towards their teachers in their academic organizations and also the way it influences their attitude towards actions and decisions they take. This is an empirical research study based on student’s perceptions studying in institutes of western Uttar Pradesh including Mathura, Agra and Aligarh region. Weighted average agreement score was used for analysis of the data. The findings suggest students have a mixed feeling regarding exhibiting the art of ethical leadership by their teachers and hence this paper underlines the need for improving the ethical leadership skills in contemporary scenario.
Keywords
Ethics, Ethical Leadership, Perception, Teachers’ Behaviour and Actions.
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- Developing Ethical Leadership to Conquer Employee Cynicism at Workplace
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1 Institute of Business Management, GLA University, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, IN
2 Assistant Professor, Institute of Business Management, GLA University, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, IN
1 Institute of Business Management, GLA University, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, IN
2 Assistant Professor, Institute of Business Management, GLA University, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, IN
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International Journal on Leadership, Vol 8, No 1 (2020), Pagination: 35-39Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to underline the notion of employee cynicism and understand the role of ethical leadership in conquering employee cynicism and developing positive employees’ outcomes at the workplace. This paper reviews some select articles on employee cynicism and ethical leadership. It briefly demonstrates the role of ethical leadership in reducing cynicism at the workplace. Ethical and value-driven practices of leaders help in minimizing cynical culture in organizations. This paper proposes a model of employee cynicism and helps in understanding ethical leaders’ role in reducing employee cynicism. This study saves the time of organizational leaders in understanding the attitude of employee cynicism that considerably hampers the organizational goals and suggests few ethical leadership strategies for reducing employee cynicism. This study presents relevant information in a condensed way.Keywords
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