Write a critical, reflective essay about a well-publicised responsible leadership scandal an ethical issue facing a leader in an organisational setting.
First, describe the responsible leadership scandal and the issue from secondary sources (which you must reference). Second, drawing on ethical, leadership, responsible leadership, or CSR theories**,
critically analyse the strengths and weaknesses of the leadership behaviour demonstrated in your scenario and evaluate how more responsible leadership might have been achieved.
Third, reflect critically on how you personally might have behaved in the same scenario, either as the leader or as a follower, based on what you have learnt from the exercises in class about yourself and/or personal experience.
In summary, your essay will have the following sections:
1) Brief description of the chosen case and issue
2) Analysis of responsible leadership behaviour using theories from the module (including suggestions for better practice)
3) Personal reflection
* Famous (ir)responsible leadership cases, one of which you might research for your scenario, include: Martin Winterkorn (Volkswagen and CO2 emissions), Bob Diamond (interest-rate fixing at Barclays), Elizabeth Holmes (fraud at Theranos health startup), Tony Hayward (BP and Deepwater Horizon oil spill), Mike Jeffries (employee discrimination and diversity problems at Abercrombie & Fitch), Rebekah Brooks (unethical journalism at News International). If you wish to take on an alternative well-publicised case, you will need to confirm this with the module organiser beforehand.
make sure you cover at least 2 types of theories from the 4 noted above.
