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发表于 2006-7-24 17:39:04
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TOPIC: ISSUE43 - "To be an effective leader, a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards."
WORDS: 680 TIME: -:--:-- DATE: 2006-7-24
1.道德是必要的
2.不是所有情况下都要有道德,有些情况下要违背道德
3.但也不能过度违背。
If we cast a look back at the formation of a nation, it is possible to identify how important a role the leader plays. In this era advocating the ethical and moral standards, should those public officials maintain the highest moral standards as the author claimed? As for me, I contend that the high moral standards should be a necessary requirement for public officials; however, it is impractical, or even impossible, to insist on the highest ones when confronting some special situations.
To begin with, what is obvious is that high ethical and moral standards are indispensable parts for public officials who want to be effective leaders. Common sense proves that, if only the public officials want to be effective, the first concern should be the full charge of his/her subordinates, so that the commands can be carried out effectively. Then how to achieve it? To this question, high moral and ethical standards sever great and excellent assistant enabling leaders take full charge of people. Gandhi, the famous leader of India, guided his people by not only his endeavors but also his high moral standards. The former grants people the right direction, while the latter grants people the infinite courage, both of which contribute to the effective lead. In contrast to those effective leaders, the history witnesses the moral fall-down of some once-effective leaders as well. Bill Clinton, an effective leader who maintained high approval rating for his position, was disclosed to have immoral sexual relationship with his intern. After that, masses began to doubt his behaviors as well as his policies which consequently made him less effective in his work. Throughout the history, taking both positive and negative leaders into account, one common conclusion they reflect is that, the higher moral standards leaders have, the more effective work the leaders could done. In other words, to maintain the high morality is the key to the effective work no matter in any stage, in any countries.
Nevertheless, in some special occasions, the public officials have to sacrifice morality in the sake of the nation, the society as well the people. Simply put, when facing some sensitive matters, the political effective severely contradict the principal of highest ethic. Under that circumstance, the public officials have no other choice but to make the decision beyond the bounds of morality. National security area is replete with such examples. One need not go further but to check counter-terrorists actions, following the principles of moral standards, the officials should put forward the detailed plan of actions to people, which possibly consequently be utilized by enemies, resulting in the failure of the actions; while, following the principles of political effectiveness, the public officials are required to withhold those sensitive information from people until the end of the actions, which seems superficially immoral, but actually reasonable to some extent. Despite some people’s disapproval of such behaviors, after balancing the morality and national security, the leaders make a wise choice, after all the work is their first concern. Therefore, only by withholding some secret information from people, can leaders first reassure the people to avoid falling into chaos and secondly have the commands executed effectively.
Undoubtedly, it is inappropriate, even terrible, to unduly sacrifice the moral standards without comprehensive consideration. Were there no certain measures to restrain their behaviors, the leaders are more likely to destroy themselves as well as their nations under the cover of political effectiveness. In the history, it is not rare to identify some people of this kind. For example, Stalin, once the leader of Former Soviet Union, unduly discarded his morality by the name of national security, and at last led the execution of thousands of people. Hence, excessively sacrifice of morality is destructive to a nation rather than helpful. It seems that the leaders could temporary preserve power by immoral behaviors; but such behaviors invariably result in the leaders’ degradation.
In conclusion, while conceding the highest moral standards is almost impossible for leaders because of some extreme situations, it is a vital requirement for the leaders to maintain their high morality for effective lead.
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