Ethical Leadership as a Catalyst for Organizational Resilience in times of Crisis: A Mixed-Methods Approach (American Context)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.47067/ramss.v8i1.472Keywords:
Crisis Management, Ethical Leadership, Employee Behavior, Organizational Resilience, Sustainability, Stakeholder EngagementAbstract
Georgia USA organisations achieve success in crisis response by implementing ethical leadership principles. The success of modern organisations depends on ethical leadership because direct ethical decision-making links closely with organisational outcomes. , USA. The study concentrates on three fundamental aspects: ethical decision-making, transparency, and stakeholder engagement. Through ethical decision-making, leaders can predict all possible outcomes of their decisions to build an accountable organisation based on integrity. Organisations receive greater decision-making clarity through stakeholder involvement because employees, customers, suppliers, and residents contribute to building collective goals that increase resilience capabilities. The research implements quantitative and qualitative approaches to produce a complete view of ethical leadership roles during crisis management. The research foundation bases its work on total literature reviews that explore ethical leadership and resilience domains. Research on crisis-related organisational success delivers practical applications that clarify the theoretical ideas present throughout this dissertation. New fresh papers have uncovered requisite characteristics of the connection between leadership ethics and organisational resilience. As research shows, crisis management is secondary to ethical leadership because it is a peripheral approach to achieving unsustainable outcomes.
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