Ervin Laszlo
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Ethical Leadership

(May 2000)


ETHICAL LEADERSHIP: THE BASIC CONSIDERATION

 The striving for ethics in corporate management rests on a two-fold consideration:

(1) Creating an ethical company through ethical leadership is an effective way of creating a favorable business climate through improved confidence by shareholders, clients, customers, partners and stakeholders, thus paving the way toward sustainable forms and levels of profit, growth, diversification, and market presence.

(2) Being ethical has a value of its own, independently of its commercial consequences. Exercising ethical leadership and working for an ethical company have their reward in the purpose and commitment they instill and satisfaction they generate in individuals at all levels of the company.

ETHICAL LEADERSHIP: THE NECESSARY COMMITMENT

Exercising ethical leadership means accepting and living up to the commitment to:

THE RANGE OF RESPONSIBILITIES IN TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY MANAGEMENT

 (a) Responsibility for the Shareholders

 (b) Responsibility for Collaborators and Staff

 (c) Responsibility for Clients and Customers

 (d) Responsibility for Suppliers, Distributors, and Partners

 (e) Responsibility for the Industry Sector, Including its Information- and Knowledge-Base and Competitive Playing-field

 (f) Responsibility for the Wellbeing of all Stakeholders in the Operating Environment

 (g) Responsibility for the Sustainability of Nature in the Operating Environment

 Additional Responsibilities of Global Companies

 (h) Responsibility for the Socially, Culturally, and Ecologically Adapted Development of the Host Countries

 (i) Responsibility for the Sustainability and Diversity of the Biosphere

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