Leadership Ethics & Innovation

CIO Innovative Technology the (LIE Forum) Presented by: Cyril Foday-kailie

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Agenda

Welcome 5 Agenda 2 Introduction 10 Leadership Ethics and innovation 10 Leadership Strategy 10 Leadership Behavior 10 Good Leadership Framework 10 Reviewing Current Leadership 10 Building Excellence with Leadership 10 Linking Leadership Ethics to Innovate 10 Need for Sustainable Ethical Culture 10 Building Innovative Culture 10 Radical and Incremental Innovation 10 Leadership Ethics & Innovation Influences 5 Conclusion 2 Questions 5 References

Introduction

Leadership ethics and InnovationWhat does it mean?Who is it meant for?Can we find ethical and innovative leaders?

Preferred leadership Style and strategy?Preferred Ethical Framework?Ideal leadership culture for innovation?How Ethical Leadership impact innovation?

Leadership Ethics and Innovation

Who is a LeaderLeaders are ordinary people who accept or are

placed under extraordinary circumstances that bring forth their latent potential, producing a character that inspires the confidence and trust of others. Myles Munroe Becoming A Leader, “Everyone Can Do It”

Leadership Ethics and Innovation

Leadership Types• Transactional leadership• Transformational leadership• Democratic leadership• People oriented leadership

Leadership Strategy

• Behavioral theories of leadershipTheories that attempt to isolate behaviors that

differentiate effective leaders from ineffective leaders

Behavioral studies focus on identifying critical behavioral determinants of leadership that, in turn, could be used to train people to become leaders Treviño, L., K., Browne,. M., E (2004)

Leadership Strategy

Good leaders’ take followers where they want to go while great leaders take them where the ought

to be. Kouzes & Posner (1987)

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Leadership Behaviour

Good Leadership Framework

Transactional Leadership BehaviorsLeadership actions that focus on accomplishing the tasks at

hand and on maintaining good working relationships by exchanging promises of rewards for performance. Dessler, G, (2003)

Transformational Leadership BehaviorsLeadership actions that involve influencing major

changes in the attitudes and assumptions of organization members and building commitment for the organization’s mission, objectives, and strategies. Dessler, G, (2003)

Reviewing Current Leadership

The views of the team is essential in evaluating leadership and ethical capability

Teams require effective leaders and a highly capable workforce to meet the challenges of the modern world, the changing nature of work and the increased expectations of the organization APS.Gov.AU (n.d)

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Building Excellence with leadership

Build Strategic Leadership values

Build competencies of team leadership

Leading by Example

Collaboration

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Linking leadership Ethics to Innovate

How to use Ethical Leadership to Innovate?Leaders should use ethical approach to build trustful environment, motivate and encouge team to build creative ideasEthical leadership, in particular, does have a direct effect on innovation in the workplace. In fact, there is a strong correlation between innovative companies and ethical companies (Gebler, 2007). Companies that foster one will likely foster the other because critical values are trusted, protected, encouraged and rewarded (Gebler, 2007).

Need for Sustainable Ethical Culture

Create the need for leadership, employee collaboration to foster capacity building to create a sustainable organization change. A good ethical culture is sustained when leaders creates an ethical environment where corrective action is encouraged. This strengthens the innovation capacity of the company

Building Innovative Culture

What is innovation? Innovation is about helping organization grow that is sometimes measured in terms of turnover and profit and knowledge. Sullivan, & Dooley (2009) Creating innovative Culture incubates organization environment for innovation

Hansen, M.T, & Birkinshaw, J, (2007) states “the latest advise that innovative companies should focus on is generating more ideas and managers set up a series of formal brainstorming sessions to determine which among the ideas can be of value when pursue to achieve the following.

Radical and Incremental Innovation

Radical Innovation is associated with visions of an organization that can create world breaking product that grows to dominate entire sector of industry. O’sullivan, & Dooley (2009 ), Léger, A & Swaminathan, S, (2007). While incremental innovation is derived from partners for maturing products

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Leadership, Ethics & Innovation Influences

• How Organization uses Leadership and Ethics to Innovate

Remain firmly committed to technology and innovation with the dynamism to drive change.

Identify in what context to innovate; Radical or Incremental. O’sullivan, & Dooley (2009)

Build an innovative culture

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Conclusion

To create an innovative culture, business leaders should use ethical approach to motivate team members, gain a trustful environment that can encourage creative ideas and thought to be developed as innovation

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QUESTIONS

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ReferencesAPS.Gov.AU (n.d) http://www.apsc.gov.au/about-the-apsc/parliamentary/state-of-the-service/2011-12

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Hansen, M.T, & Birkinshaw, J, (2007) Retrieved 21st August 2014. http://hbr.org/2007/06/the-innovation-value-chain/ar/

Horth, D.,M & Vehar, J.,(2014) Becoming a Leader Who Fosters Innovation, Centre of creative Leadership Retrieved 4 th. September 2014, http://www.ccl.org/leadership/pdf/research/becomingleaderfostersinnovation.pdf

Kouzes & Posner (1987), Kouzes, J. M., & Posner, B. Z. (1989). Leadership is in the eyes of the follower. In J. Gordon, (Ed.), Classic activities for developing leaders. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

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O'Sullivan, D. & Dooley, L. (2009). Applying Innovation. Sage Publications

Treviño, L., K., Browne,. M., E (2004) The Role of Leaders in Influencing Unethical Behavior in the Workplace http://www.corwin.com/upm-data/4910_Kidwell_Chapter_3.pdf