Running head: BUSINESS ETHICS Business Ethics Crystal M JacksonAshford UniversityOrganizational Behavior (NAB1425A) Professor: Vanessa Washington July 13, 2014 Assignment Robert Nardelli was heavily criticized for his leadership style and methods he used during his tenure as CEO of Home Depot. Using your readings for this week, along with outside research, describe his style of leadership and take a position on whether you think his actions rose to the level of being unethical. Write a three- to four-page paper (excluding the title and reference pages) addressing the following in your paper: a. Clearly describe Robert Nardelli’s leadership style in terms of Leadership Theory, incorporating the following theories within your paper: o Trait Theory o Behavioral Theory o Situational and Contingency Theories b. State whether his actions were ethical or unethical. c. Cite the text material and research that support your position. Your paper must use a minimum of three scholarly sources, in addition to the textbook. Your paper must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. The Difference Between Management and Leadership This week we will be examining the twin concepts of management and leadership. Bolman and Deal (2003) described leadership as the subtle process of mutual influence that creates cooperative efforts toward mutual goals. Bolman and Deal also described several sources of power that can be associated with leadership, but we will only talk about two in this Guidance. The two sources of power for this discussion are ‘position power’, or formal authority, and ‘personal power’, or informal authority. Examples of official leadership are CEOs, Vice Presidents, and Managers in organizations, Admirals, Generals, and Colonels in the military, and of course, the official leader everyone is familiar with, the President of the United States. These titled leaders have been granted power and authority by virtue of their positions, but leadership is not always associated with these elements (Robbins, 2001). Those with official titles and formal authority can have the power to require or even force the actions of others (Wren, 2005). Leadership often transcends official titles and granted authority. Consider your kids’ soccer coach. He or she has to be a leader in order to motivate and bring the best out of a would-be-team of 7 year olds. Or how about that person you work with? You know the one. The person who has no lofty title but others follow him as if he was the Pied Piper, simply because they recognize and respect him as a leader. We have all seen leaders who have no specific or granted authority by way of an official title, yet they are clearly leaders. Famous examples of this type of leadership are Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. of the Civil Rights Movement and Mohandas Gandhi, non-violent protest leader against British Colonizers in India. Consider also Nelson Mandela, t ...