A Critical Analysis of a Book Section Four: “Shaping Ethical Contexts” in the Book Titled “Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow”

Abstract

Ethics is at the heart of leadership; leaders act as ethics officers for their organizations through the process of social learning and by building positive ethical climates. Leaders assume the ethical responsibilities that come with that role. Leaders are primarily responsible for creating organizations that admire their ethical behavior. Leaders are the ethics officers of their organizations, casting light or shadow in large part through the example they set (Johnson, 2018, p. 393). This fact resulted into a critical analysis of “Shaping Ethical Contexts.” For this reason, the paper reviewed the ethical leadership in the small group context, including the behaviors to be displayed in front of small groups. The leader must have a common goal and work together with followers. He must be ready to listen to the group members' opinions to promote Ethical communication skills, and tactics include comprehensive. This critical analysis also presented a comprehensive review on creating an ethical organizational climate, i.e., important tools for building an ethical organizational climate including core ideology, codes of ethics, socialization, and ethics training. This paper also reminds us of how to meet the Ethical Challenges of Leadership in the Global Society. In the modern world, a leader's power is no longer limited by national boundaries. This analysis also presented the importance of Ethical Leadership in Crises. Managing a crisis is the ultimate test of ethical leadership because it is in crisis times that people recognize the real leaders.