Ethical Leadership and Starbucks

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich BWL - Unternehmensethik, Wirtschaftsethik, Note: 1,3, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In a world where business scandals with ethical conflicts are an almost every-day issue that is publicly displayed in the media, it’s often seen that leaders blame employees or other components but don’t take personal accountability. In the following course it will therefore be investigated whether ethical leadership is helpful or even more can help a company in a crisis caused by a scandal in particular consideration to the company Starbucks. Therefor the term ethical leadership will be defined, as well as methods to accomplish successful ethical leadership and then lastly be analyzed in regards to Starbucks action and the consequences their handling took.