Dishonesty In Military Leadership

All leadership should trust their subordinates when executing a task. Ensuring Soldiers do their job while implementing military standards without supervision is fundamental. Subordinates should trust us to make the sound judgments that will bring them home to their loved ones. Knowing that we can count on each other brings the confidence we need to stay focused on the mission, increasing abilities to make right decisions in stressful situations where a second can determine life or death on the battlefield. Learning how to let go could seemingly be one of the hardest skills to master. If leaders don’t trust their subordinates it can be interpreted as micro management, these leaders will do all the work. Leaving no room for their subordinates to evolve, as leaders causing a negative

When leading a team there must be a mutual understanding and being honest with all involved. Being honest will inspire others to be truthful, have sincerity and be forthrightness when volunteering information that the other person may need to know. (Josephson, 2002, p. 8) This goes for both leaders and non-leaders being honest will always the best policy.

Amongst many principles with which men and women of the military must abide by, the concept of maintaining accountability of your personnel is possibly the most important concept not just within the military itself, but around the world within any occupation. Keeping proper accountability of your personnel covers yourself, as well as giving those above you the luxury of being at ease knowing that their persons are all present and accounted for.

In this essay we will be discussing the importance of integrity, and what ways it builds cohesiveness in the United States Army. Integrity is defined as, “Adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.” Integrity is one of the ethical values that the army uses to stay in check and remains a key value in the army. Before we look at the importance of integrity, let us first look different definitions of integrity. The true meaning of integrity is sometimes very tricky. Acting ethically and morally will sometimes cause confusion with acting with integrity. Integrity is a virtue to always live by no matter what. It is a unique quality that defines a person’s character morally and ethically. Without

This I believe is a very vague question in terms of what I believe. I have a multiplex of beliefs, yet one of my cardinal beliefs is integrity. Integrity is knowing that you're honest and fair, which is what I live by. It’s a level of respect you give which results in a positive outcome on your character as a human being. It’s a trait not everyone has fortitude to achieve and not one of those traits you’re born with, it’s one of those traits you develop over the span of your life as you attain understanding.

While reading this article I was impressed with how Chaplin Maloney analyzed and separated the ethical factors that challenge military leadership. This read has edified me in understanding further use of ethics by military leaders. Below I have stated my opinions to the challenges army leaders face in the ethical factors identified by Chaplin Maloney.

I believe military leadership struggles with forgiveness just as Paulina did in Death and the Maiden. Soldiers are held to a higher standard to a certain degree with regards to their actions in their personal life than typical companies hold their employees. In most professions outside of the military, if an employee receives a DUI, more than likely they are not subjected to discipline from their employer. This may hold true for non-violent criminal offenses that most employers would even know about unless the criminal proceeding leads to the employee's absence from work. If a soldier receives a DUI, depending on the rank of the soldier he or she can be dismissed from the service or will be prevented from future promotion if the military

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When I was younger, I thought leadership was authority bestowed to people in positions of power because of their rank. To me, leadership was a word that evoked the image of a staunch and authoritarian CEO or military general inspiring large crowds with rousing speeches. Leaders were a special group of people who wielded the power of leadership with the grace and finesse to make all others stand in awe. However, as I became older and more established in my career, I saw that leadership was not always given to a person because of their rank. I saw that some leaders work hard to reach the higher levels of leadership by learning and adapting themselves rather than trying to change their environment. I learned that although positions provide

When I was in the military (Air Force) I encountered two business problems that I felt was totally unnecessary because both of these problems could have been avoided as well as corrected if the people who I was working with would have worked together instead of against each other. The first problem that I experienced was the lack of leadership that was in place at the base that I was newly stationed at (Hurlburt Field, FL). Being that I came from an overseas base (Osan AB Korea), I knew that it was going to be different and going to a different base; people operate differently or conduct the day to day business differently especially when it comes to leadership styles. The problem that I faced when I first got to my new base in Florida was the lack of job involvement which leads to lack of leadership because the people over me, especially my immediate supervisor did not want to get involved

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Military leaders have a variety of obligations designed to take care of Soldiers’ morale, health, and welfare. There are a variety resources all aimed at ensuring Soldiers are physically and mentally fit. The Army takes Soldier care a step further by also providing programs designed to assist and support family members. But what happens when issues arise that don’t fit into these programs or solution sets? This is where a leader’s moral obligations come into play. The greatest moral obligation of a leader is to do the right thing to support Soldiers’ and Soldier’s families no matter the personal sacrifice. This specific obligation is what makes our military great. Today’s leaders must place special emphasis on supporting the force as well

As a leader, your primary responsibility is taking care of and the training of your Soldiers. Leaders will come in early, stay late, sacrifice their personal time and family time to make sure their Soldiers are trained. The ways leaders take care of their Soldiers are by mentoring, coaching, guiding, teaching, inventorying their equipment and inspecting their living conditions. What happens when a leader has good intentions for the well-fair of his or her Soldiers but a false report had a negative impact on his or her Soldiers that results in the leader questioning the investigation process and the Army?

This leadership came into play, although all individuals involved are adults and accountable for their own actions, by the sergeants’ participation giving the ethical impression to the subordinate officers’ their actions are acceptable. Leadership is extremely important in every organization, and although Gary Marche reveals, “There is no evidence to support the “individual rotten apple” theory” he ties corruption to leadership as the fish is known to rot at the head (Marche, 51).

Soldiers and Leaders alike deploy worldwide and risk life and limb in order to uphold the tenets of the Constitution. American citizens place an insurmountable of trust in its leaders to do the ethical and moral thing in the application of lethal land power. Trust is the bedrock upon which the Army is