本帖最后由 cherryxixi 于 2011-1-18 00:50 编辑
43,To be an effective leader, a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards
Does an effective leader must obey the highest ethical and moral standards as the writer asserts? I concede that every person should maintain the highest ethical and moral standards, especially being an effective leader. However, there are two important problems in this topic which I will discuss below.
Admittedly, highest ethical and moral standards give a person an important standard when dealing with problems. So as an effective leader who is the center of an enterprise, one can cultivate the subordinate’s credence by his or her humanity which can be expressed by maintaining highest ethical and moral standards. Moreover, a leader who maintains the highest ethical and moral standards will lead the company to a right direction. For example, when a leader looks at the further benefit an enterprise can make, he may not make a policy which is harmful to our environment for a short profit.
However, the writer neglects two significant problems rising from this assertion. Firstly, the aim of a company is the profit maximizing as well as the responsibility of the leader, which maybe have a conflict with the highest ethical and moral standards. For example, when maximizing the profit, a company should open more factories, which occupy the arable land and forest land that offer us foodstuff and peaceful environment. When faces this dilemma, the leader may choose the solution which is benefit for company instead of the highest ethical and moral standards by the threaten of the broad.
Secondly, when facing moral conflict with the highest ethical, an effective leader is hard to choose. Moreover, the standards of the ethical and moral is obscuring insofar as conception of the highest ethical and moral standards is not so clear. That is to say, it is different to different objective. For instance, when a officer who is so poor that he can not lose this job violate the company rule. From the perspective of the company, the highest ethical and moral standards which is the rule of the company should retire this officer. While from the perspective of the social morals, because of the special poverty of this officer the leader should not retire this worker. So the obscurity of the standard is the threshold of this topic.
In sum, from our daily experience, it seems to warrant that an effective leader should maintain the highest ethical and moral standards. However, the truth is whimsical and changeable. If we could not avoid the threshold of this topic I have discussed, it is nonetheless to discuss this topic.
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发表于 2011-1-18 00:42:01
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