Critically evaluate the statement that a successful leader must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards.
...hat any pay differentials based on ethnic background are unethical; this discrimination can result in a lot of loss of organization by resistibility of employees and affects negatively the whole organizational performance and leader’s achievement. In addition good welfare can make employees concentrate on their jobs and do their best. George & Jones (2002, p.310) claim that sabbatical, a special welfare, can help alleviate stress, refresh and energize employees and foster new creative insights. These obvious advantages can be accepted by approximately first to tenth organizational leaders located in Silicon Valley currently, including 3Com Corporation and Intel (George & Jones, 2002, p.310). The policy of sabbatical motivates abundant innovations from employees and these innovations make organizational hold high level of profit ability (George & Jones, 2002, p.310). It is double-win, one is employees satisfy with leader’s ethical behavior, other is leaders are supported enough by employees and succeed to achieve their goals for organization. Thus, it can be seen that employees are very precious fortune of organizations and individual support connects with the leader’s success. Consequently a successful leader must get enough support of employees due to the highest ethical and moral behaviors. Secondly, a leader must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards in order to benefit the organization through commercial profit, and to gain creditability with customers, users and clients. This is because some leaders pursue excessively current commercial value and ignore flaw of product quality, which is basic need of customer, resulting in weakening creditability of customers and failure in commerce (Bavry, 1995, p.353). Although a small flaw is negligible, it is cheating customers which results in a negative influence in creditability with customers when products are sold. For instance, in early December 1994, INTEL (International Business Machines Corporation) had a serious finance crisis (Alfonso & Cornelius, 1995, pp.2-6). Although the CEO of INTEL knew its chips had a small flaw, marketing of the defective chips continued until the leak was discovered, then most of computer companies such as IBM refused to purchase the chips (Alfonso & Cornelius, 1995, pp.2-6). INTEL did not recover its financially threatened position until the CEO agreed to recall free all defective chips. In this case, the manager not only gave up product quality to pursue short-term commercial profits, but also used unethical behavior to hide facts and cheat customers, resulted in losing creditability with customers and a serious finance crisis. In additional, another example states a classical successful case due to always provide excellent customer service. Michael Dell, Dell’s founder and CEO, has built a huge commercial empire, from $1000 of investment in 1984 to $33 billion of revenue in 2000 (George & Jones, 2002, pp.506-507). As a successful leader, he considers customer is God and for this reason, his company is first to create the 24 hours service for customers (George & Jones, 2002, pp.506-507). His ethical strategy of management wins support of many customers in the world and he creates a commercial miracle. As a result, ethical behavior can gain commercial success and unethical behavior can get commercial crisis. Therefore, a leader who wants to get success in commerce must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards to getting creditability with customers, users and clients and succeed in marketing. Finally, a leader who can maintain the highest ethical and moral standards can restrict his or her behavior to avoid ignorance of social responsibility. Because leaders frequently use unethical power to achieve their goals quickly, they never think about negative effort of giving up social responsibility such as public safety and health (Lvancevich & Konpaske & Matteson, 2005, p.405). Moreover, some unethical behaviors of leader put commercial profit of company over public safety. For example, on May 11, 1996, a catastrophic accident of airplane happened into the Florida Everflades and killed 110 people (George & Jones, 2002, p.23). The investigators discovered that the cause of crash of the airplane cannot fix the safety caps to separate oxygen canisters due to managers of the Sabretech aircraft company reduce excessively the cost of the safety caps, which is $9.16 (George & Jones, 2002, p.23). The unethical manager’s behavior resulted in the deaths of 110 people and in 1999, Sabetech’s managers were indicted on criminal charge and Sabetech bankrupted due to this case (George & Jones, 2002, p.24). The unethical behavior of the manager led to not only fail of manager but also death of passengers. On the contrary, emphasis public health, a stronger social responsibility of ethic, can provide successful chance for leader. Although nonuse of herbicides and pesticides can increase the cost of planting, the CEO of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc., forbids the use of those for providing healthy and innocuous foods to society (George & Jones, 2002, p.24). Due to this action, his company gets rich and generous achievement from marketing, which sales in 1998 are $1....