Description
In need of (2) substantive replies of 100 words each to (2) different forum posts. E01322CE01NCOL: Fundamental Leadership Dynamics
Topic: Lesson 6
This class will first examine why certain leaders have failed ethically and what they could have done to prevent such a lapse in judgment. It will then look into conflict management styles to include how they differ and can be used to effectively deal with workplace conflict.
Learning Outcomes
- Consider why leaders have failed ethically and how to ensure that these failures do not continue. Also review different conflict management styles to better resolve workplace issues.
Two issues for discussion are posed for each lesson. Learners must individually address the issuesinitial responsethrough college-level, succinct and insightful paragraphs.
Peer replies to further the conversation
LESSON 6 ISSUE FOR DISCUSSION #1:
Why have certain societal leaders failed ethically and are there steps these leaders could have taken to prevent this?
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Forum Post 1:
Re: Lesson 6, IFD #1
If you look at any era within the past, or present-day, there will always be leaders that were once great but as time went on, past things they did that were ethically wrong, would lead to their fall from grace. The Volkswagen emissions scandal in 2015 could perhaps be an example of this, although at first if you were to look at it, it seemed to be just corrupt engineers, however, if you dig deeper into Martin Winterkorn, Chief Executive Officer of Volkswagen Group at the time, perhaps he may have been one of the reasons that led to the scandal. Martin Winterkorn, a man of humble beginnings, working from the bottom at engineering and electronics group Bosch. Like most others that experience ethical failures, they were men and women of strong personal integrity and intelligence men and women who have climbed the ladder through hard work.. (The Ethical Failure of Successful Leaders, Ludwig and Longenecker, P.3) When Winterkorn became the Chief Executive Officer, he wanted Volkswagen to become the biggest carmaker, a big dream, and in his goal to reach this, perhaps he mightve forgotten about making sure that his employees wouldnt abandon their ethics to achieve his goals. In an article written about Winterkorn, an Executive stated There was always a distance, a fear, and a respect If he would come and visit or you had to go to him, your heart rate would shoot up. (Cremer, Andreas, and Tom Bergin. Understanding and PREVENTING Ethical Leadership Failures.) Although Winterkorn was not directly responsible for the emission scandal, his expectations of complete success on everything and pushing his employees to value performance over anything else perhaps led to the scandal that occurred.
LESSON 6 ISSUE FOR DISCUSSION #2:
What is your personal conflict management style and how do you handle or work with others whose styles differ?
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Forum Post 2:
I do not feel that I am prone to any one particular conflict management style, but instead I feel that I fluctuate between different kinds. When there is something that I care about, I can be quite combative with others who disagree. For example, my parents are divorced and I have family scattered across various states. How I spend my leave days is always under scrutiny, especially when I use them for myself. On this, I am very combative with my family. On the other hand, I can also be cary conflict-avoidant. For example, I had a roommate earlier in the year who never washed his dishes without being asked. This is an absolute outrage to me because, it is childish to not wash your dishes but instead leave them to soak. This is just lazy. This roommate then proceeds to tell me that he wants more room in the freezer for his food. I respond by telling him that I do not want dishes in the sink. He has no response and we continue to live with each other for another month before he moves out and into another room with a different Marine. I chose not to make a bigger issue of the situation because I knew that I would have to live with him either way. He always washed his dishes when I asked him to, but it was the act of having to ask that was inconvenient to me. Furthermore, sometimes the collaborative approach is necessary. I am a volunteer for my units Marine Corps Ball committee this year, and in this situation one needs to collaborate with others. No one will agree on what the perfect Marine Corps Ball can or should look like, especially when there are COVID restrictions to take into account. Sometimes different ideas of venues, DJ’s, meals, attire, ticket prices etc., can be sorted through so as to make almost everyone happy. However, with COVID restrictions becoming more strict again in Hawaii, we might not be able have a Ball at all. In these circumstances, collaborating with others is probably the best option. It takes more than one person to put on an event like that, and working with other people is the only way to make it work out for everyone.
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