Making Room for Followers: A Grounded Theory Study of Ethical Followership Among Professional Engineers
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NDT Management
| Tuesday, October 22, 2024 |
| 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
| 213/214 - Campfire & Deep Dive |
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In the last twenty-five years of research on organizations, ethical leadership figures prominently as an answer to the question, “How do workers learn how to do the right thing when facing an ethical dilemma?” However, enthusiasm for a leader-centric view of ethics at work has outpaced the potential to explore the ways that followers navigate ethical dilemmas. To date, we don't know much about "ethical followership" and its benefits, and we don't know what efforts we can take within the NDT profession to develop ethical followers.
In this session, Dr. Kyle Payne will share the results of a study he conducted on how professional engineers react when they receive an unethical directive or request. As a group, we will discuss our own examples of how we have practiced or observed ethical followership. Participants will then identify for themselves, what behavioral competencies are necessary to being an ethical follower within their firm?
In this session, Dr. Kyle Payne will share the results of a study he conducted on how professional engineers react when they receive an unethical directive or request. As a group, we will discuss our own examples of how we have practiced or observed ethical followership. Participants will then identify for themselves, what behavioral competencies are necessary to being an ethical follower within their firm?
Speaker
Dr Kyle Payne
Making Room for Followers: A Grounded Theory Study of Ethical Followership Among Professional Engineers
11:00 AM - 12:00 PMPresentation Description
In the last twenty-five years of research on organizations, ethical leadership figures prominently as an answer to the question, “How do workers learn how to do the right thing when facing an ethical dilemma?” However, enthusiasm for a leader-centric view of ethics at work has outpaced the potential to explore the ways that followers navigate ethical dilemmas. To date, we don't know much about "ethical followership" and its benefits, and we don't know what efforts we can take within the NDT profession to develop ethical followers.
In this session, Dr. Kyle Payne will share the results of a study he conducted on how professional engineers react when they receive an unethical directive or request. As a group, we will discuss our own examples of how we have practiced or observed ethical followership. Participants will then identify for themselves, what behavioral competencies are necessary to being an ethical follower within their firm?
In this session, Dr. Kyle Payne will share the results of a study he conducted on how professional engineers react when they receive an unethical directive or request. As a group, we will discuss our own examples of how we have practiced or observed ethical followership. Participants will then identify for themselves, what behavioral competencies are necessary to being an ethical follower within their firm?
Biography
Kyle is a strategic talent development leader with fifteen years of experience driving process improvement and behavior change through training, coaching, and consulting. He draws upon his experience managing quality in the structural steel industry – building high-quality structures that stand the test of time in any environment – to building high-performing and continually-improving teams. As a researcher of organizational behavior, Kyle focuses on unethical behavior at work and examines the behaviors of “ethical followers” who have the courage to resist unethical behavior and call into question unethical thinking.
