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Leadership and Ethics Exercise – Group This exercise[footnoteRef:1] is intended to encourage you to reflect carefully on your current views on leadership and to stimulate their interest in learning more about ethical leadership. This exercise is also to encourage you to evaluate and make decisions involving ethical dimensions as a member of a group. [1: Adapted from Richard Daft's The Leadership Experience ] Group Number ____________ Page | 1 Page | 1 Leadership and Ethics Summary1 Background on Leadership Leadership has been defined in various ways (Fleishman and others, 1991). One common definition regards leadership as a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal (Northouse, 2016, p. 16). The following components are central to this definition: (a) leadership is a process, (b) leadership involves influence, (c) leadership occurs in groups, and (d) leadership involves common goals. For present purposes, leadership refers to the individuals exerting influence as 'leaders', and to those being influenced as 'followers'. While the distinction between leaders and followers is helpful for illustrative purposes, it should be noted that one can simultaneously be a leader in one context and a follower in another context. It should also be noted that leadership can be formal, such as in the case of an elected prime minister or a company's CEO. But there are also cases of informal leadership, when the influence does not derive from a formal authority conferred through rules and procedures. Finally, it is useful to highlight that leaders can be associated with the world of business, politics, popular culture, and other areas of life.