The Preferred Leadership In Financial Institutions

Academic Paper from the year 2025 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, , language: English, abstract: The aim of this essay focuses on the preferred leadership in financial institutions to address ethics and corporate governance. Despite the existence of professional leadership within financial institutions, there are still prone to failures resulting from ethical and corporate governance challenges like other organizations. Wells Fargo scandal (2002-2016) was used as a practical example to conceptualize and evaluate leadership failure in multilevel organizations using; trait, skill, behavioral among others. Board of directors had lousy behavior, failing to prevail over the lies traded by the executives. Exhibit (1) Wells Fargo executives ignored all the red flags raised by the other employees and continued to lie to the board of directors, regulators, and controlled bank public disclosures. The board of director’s lousy behavior resonates to unwanted leadership. The top executives of Wells Fargo, demonstrated several unethical practices. Exhibit (2) Wells Fargo trading hard earned reputation for short term profits unethically. These among others, exhibited acts that demonstrate lack of transparency, lack of trust value, lack of greater good concern, and lack of service for others. The preferred leadership in financial institutions to address ethics and corporate governance based on Wells Fargo, leadership conceptualization and evaluation is servant leadership.