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ETHICS AND LEADERSHIP FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AND PROFESSIONALS🔗

LA ÉTICA Y EL LIDERAZGO BAJO LA PERSPECTIVA DE ESTUDIANTES UNIVERSITARIOS Y PROFESIONALES🔗

Author(s)🔗

Víctor M. Mercader Pomarón, CETYS Universidad, México

https://doi.org/10.35564/jmbe.2020.0017

Abstract🔗

This research is focused on determining and analyzing the need and the relationship of Ethics and Leadership from the perspective of professionals and university students while obtaining the resulting parameters of respective measurement to use in favor of business and organizational improvement. Additionally, it reveals the way in which professionals behave and apply ethical values through the applied instrument, when they perform in leadership roles, thus achieving results and metrics that have not been previously found with so many values and indicators in the extensive literature analyzed.
This empirical study is complemented by the review and analysis of literature where the dimensions of ethics and leadership are related, as well as those associated to education, obtaining indicators that were the basis for the development of new theoretical categorizations.
A quantitative instrument was applied with two similar samples, but with different types of participants, one consisting of 436 professionals and the other one of 371 university students; obtaining results with the respective metrics and from there, the descriptive statistical analysis, Anova and correlations that show high significance when relating ethics and leadership and the perception of professionals and students.
This study is considered of total relevance and helps businessmen, entrepreneurs, directors and employees, as well as students, teachers, leaders, professionals and human beings in general, to be better prepared as leaders and to analyze and find solutions for ethical and productive achievements. If every company, organization, educational institution and society exercised its leadership based on ethics, the results and achievements generated would not harm humanity and would benefit everyone.

Keywords
ethics, leadership, education, companies, models and indicators of evaluation, ethical values, organizations, development

Resumen🔗

La investigación se ha enfocado en determinar y analizar la necesidad y la relación de la Ética y el Liderazgo según la perspectiva de profesionales y estudiantes universitarios y obtener los parámetros resultantes de medición respectivos para su utilización en pro del mejoramiento empresarial y organizacional. Adicionalmente, da a conocer la forma en que los profesionales se comportan y aplican los valores éticos por medio del instrumento aplicado, cuando se desempeñan en el rol de liderazgo, logrando así, resultados y métricas que no se han encontrado anteriormente con tantos valores e indicadores en la amplia literatura analizada. A este estudio empírico le acompaña la revisión y análisis de literatura donde se relacionan las dimensiones de ética y liderazgo, y también aquellas vinculadas con educación, obteniéndose indicadores que fueron la base para el desarrollo de nuevas categorizaciones teóricas.
Se aplicó un instrumento cuantitativo con dos muestras similares, pero con diferente tipo de participantes, siendo una de 436 profesionales y la otra de 371 estudiantes universitarios, obteniéndose resultados con las métricas respectivas y de allí, el análisis estadístico descriptivo, Anova y correlaciones que muestran alta significancia al relacionar la ética y el liderazgo y la percepción de los profesionales y estudiantes.
El estudio realizado se considera de total relevancia y ayuda a empresarios, directores y empleados, al igual que a alumnos, profesores, líderes, profesionales y al ser humano en general, de forma tal que estén mejor preparados como líderes para analizar y encontrar soluciones en pro de logros éticos y productivos ya que, si toda empresa, organización, institución educativa y sociedad ejerciera su liderazgo en base a la ética, se generarían resultados y logros que no perjudicarían al ser humano y beneficiarían a todos.

Palabras clave
ética, liderazgo, educación, empresas, modelos e indicadores de evaluación valores éticos, organizaciones, desarrollo

Received
11 August 2020

Accepted
23 October 2020

Copyright
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

Citation🔗

Mercader Pomaron, V. (2020). Ethics and leadership from the perspective of university students and professionals. Journal of Management and Business Education, 3(3), 266-296. https://doi.org/10.35564/jmbe.2020.0017

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