Week 6 CollaborationCOLLAPSETop of FormBeing an ethical leaderAs you may have discovered in your professional experiences, being a leader can be a difficult challenge, especially when faced with ethical and moral tests or decisions. Consider the well-known leadership joke: ‘I have got values, and if you don't like them I have others’. This joke refers to the fact that ethics may be disregarded in favour of competing interests. What is your definition of ethics? Are you ethical? What does it mean to be an ‘ethical leader’?This week’s Collaboration will enable you to engage with your colleagues in a further exploration of the important ideas and issues in business leadership. You will analyse the role and importance of ethics in leadership.To prepare for this Collaboration:Review the Required Learning Resources for Week 6 and your Key Concept Exercise from Week 5.Reflect on what it means to you to be an ethical leader. Consider the challenges and opportunities that you have analysed in Week 5.To complete this Collaboration:By Day 3, complete the following:Critically analyse the role and importance of ethics in leadership. In your analysis, address the difficulty of identifying the characteristics of an ethical leader in a challenging global