Certificate in Ethical Decision-Making for Leaders.
Learn how to examine difficult leadership choices, apply ethical decision-making frameworks and make more considered decisions when values, responsibilities and consequences collide.
Leadership becomes most revealing when there is no perfect answer.
Many leadership decisions are not simply choices between something clearly right and something clearly wrong.
Leaders can face situations in which values, responsibilities, stakeholder interests and consequences point in different directions. Those situations require more than instinct.
This programme introduces the theory of ethical decision-making and leadership, including decision-making models and frameworks that can be considered when responding to difficult organisational choices.
The programme combines ethical theory with practical leadership situations so participants can examine how frameworks translate into organisational decisions.
A stronger foundation for difficult leadership decisions.
Recognise the ethical dimension of leadership decisions rather than treating every problem as purely operational or commercial.
Understand models and theories that provide structured ways of examining ethical choices.
Examine how researchers and leadership thinkers have approached questions of ethics, authority and responsibility.
Understand how unethical leadership behaviour can negatively affect followers, teams and organisations.
Apply ethical leadership principles to real-life situations rather than keeping the discussion at a purely theoretical level.
Explore the destructive side of leadership and how influence can be misused when ethical responsibility is lost.
Six areas of ethical leadership.
The programme progresses from the foundations of ethics to ethical leadership, practical application and the risks associated with destructive leadership.
What are ethics?
Begin by exploring ethics and the basic ideas that underpin ethical judgement and decision-making.
Ethical decision-making models
Study different theories and models that can be used to understand moral development and examine difficult ethical choices.
Perspectives on leadership ethics
Examine research and ideas relating to the relationship between ethics, leadership, influence and responsibility.
Unethical leadership
Consider how unethical actions by leaders can negatively affect followers and the organisations they influence.
Principles of ethical leadership
Apply what you have learned about ethical leadership to 20 real-life case studies and examine how principles perform under practical pressure.
The dark side of leadership
Explore how leadership can become unethical and destructive, supported by case-based examination of leadership behaviour.
Ethics becomes useful when theory meets a real decision.
The programme uses 20 real-life case studies to move ethical leadership from abstract principles into practical analysis.
Case-based learning encourages participants to consider the competing interests, responsibilities and consequences involved in a leadership decision before reaching a judgement.
For people whose decisions affect other people.
Build an ethical foundation before greater organisational authority and responsibility arrive.
Strengthen the way difficult decisions are examined when they affect teams, stakeholders and organisational outcomes.
Revisit the ethical foundations of leadership where choices can have wider consequences for people, culture and institutions.
Certificate of Achievement from YUVA Academy.
Participants who complete the course receive a Certificate of Achievement from YUVA Academy.
YUVA Academy’s current published information identifies the Academy as an MQA-registered Training Institution.
Awarded by YUVA Academy following completion of the programme.
Leadership development within a wider social mission.
YUVA Academy is YUVA’s social-enterprise learning platform and seeks to develop young leaders capable of addressing complex social and organisational challenges.
The Academy combines leadership, enterprise, civic learning and practical skills within a wider commitment to social impact.
Apply to join the programme.
Admission is selective. YUVA Academy’s current published information states an acceptance ratio of 1:5 and notes that each application is scrutinised carefully.
Applicants are expected to complete the application thoughtfully and answer each question based on their experience, knowledge and judgement.
Complete the YUVA Academy application form directly below this section.