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Ethical Leadership Self-Assessment Tool

About this self-assessment tool

This self-assessment tool is designed to be used in conjunction with the ethical leadership

video and primer, Ethical Leadership: Fostering an Ethical Environment & Culture. The

tool will help you identify areas in which you’re successfully modeling behaviors that foster

an ethical environment and culture, as well as highlight opportunities for improvement. It’s

designed for leaders at the senior executive and mid-manager (division/department/service

line manager) levels as defined in VA’s High Performance Development Model (HPDM).

For more information about the competencies for each level, please see the “Competency

Definitions” ( ).

How to use the tool

This tool will challenge you to think about your own leadership behaviors. Each question

suggests a behavior or skill you may wish to develop. Each leader’s situation is unique—

think about your local situation and whether increasing your use of the behavior or skill

could improve your leadership practice and thereby your local ethical environment. There

are no right or wrong answers. For this reason, no mechanism is provided to enable you to

calculate an overall score or compare your responses to those of other leaders.

After you complete the tool

Immediately following the self-assessment questions, you’ll find an action plan. Use it to

identify opportunities to improve your leadership practice and local ethical environment and

culture.

Ethical Leadership Self-Assessment

Please check one answer for each of the following items:

Almost

I. Demonstrate that ethics is a priority

Occasionally Frequently

Never

Always

I tell my staff to make ethics a priority.

I use examples or stories from my facility or my

experience to illustrate the importance of ethics.

I initiate discussions of ethical concerns.

In a typical day, I think about ethical issues.

I demonstrate that I am sensitive to ethical issues in

my everyday work.

I object when someone seems to be ignoring, avoiding,

or smoothing over an important ethical issue.

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Ethical Leadership Self-Assessment