ETHICAL

ISSUES IN
BALANCE OF
POWER

PRESENTED BY:
Akriti Aggarwal
MBA 4th Sem
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts
absolutely.
(historian Lord Acton, 1887)

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of

those who possess it.
(William Pitt, thePrimeMinister of Britain from 1766 to 1778)

Unlimited power dramatically increases the risk of

an ethical breach
Includes:
Employer Employee
Board and Top management
Business functions pitted against each other
Gender Based
Business and Civil society organisations
Issues:
Bullying
Corruption
Sexism
Racism
Nepotism
 Sometimes organizations create concentric
power centers, Create individuals or positions
that will exercise all the power and will not have
any controls on them.

If leaders in such positions happen to be high on

integrity, then they will exercise self-restraint.
More often, however, such power corrupts best of
the leaders and they end up misusing the power.
 Power makes things happen, but it is through
the exercise of an appropriate balance
between Power and Responsibility that helps
ensure as many good things happen as
possible.

Different sides of the same coin; they are the

Ying and Yang of our behaviour.

They are how we balance our relations with

ourselves with the interests of others, which
is at the core of what we mean by our values.
Rather than creating corridors of powers
create corridors of responsibility