Ethical decision making has been a key criterion that must be given due consideration if an event were to occur in organizations. To ensure ethical decision making in an organization, one must first accept how individuals make ethical decisions in an organizational environment. Individuals in organizations are often expected to make ethical decisions in the same way they make ethical decisions at home and in their personal lives. The success of an organization depends largely on the ability of its management to make good and effective decisions (Kinicki 2008, 249-50). Ethics, the heart of leadership, as reflected in the title of Joanne B. Ciulla's 1998 book on leadership. Indeed, ethics and leadership should form an inseparable unit. In her book Ethics, the Heart of Leadership, Joanne Ciulla (2004) defines the good as “morally good and technically good or effective” (Ciulla, 2004, p. 13). Ciulla believes that ethics are the heart of leadership and that a good leader is ethical and effective. In his book Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership, Craig E. Johnson uses the similarity between heroes and villains when examining how leaders try to affect change. what comes from being a leader can be used for evil as well as good. When you take on the benefits of leadership, you also take on the ethical burdens,” he says. In making ethical decisions, the leader seeks to project “light” and not “shadow.” While there is a realistic and unpleasant correlation, think of Hitler and Gandhi. In case one subscribes to traditional definitions, for example, influencing and influencing individuals towards achieving a common goal, both were leaders… center of the paper… moral decision making. As organizations are globalizing their activities, they are confronted with a completely diverse society, which similarly influences their ability to make ethical decisions (Srnka 2004, 1-32). Finally, how ethics produces powerful leaders will highlight how great leadership is unthinkable without ethics. . In this article the reader will gain an understanding of what is needed to become an ethical and powerful leader. The focus on a leader's personal ethics is not intended to undermine the various variables that influence leadership, but to highlight how a leader's personal ethics represent the backbone of great leadership. Intentionally striving for individual ethics will ensure successful leadership, which will lead to ethical organizations and, in the long term, instill the social responsibility lost in today's society.