A socially responsible leader is characterized by the fact that (1) they understand that their way of communicating a corporate strategy to the subordinates affects the company performance and the method of their
everyday communication with the staff and colleagues influences the employees’ comfort (health), self-esteem, ethical standards, way of treating others etc., (2) they manage people in the way that motivates them to work;
(3)they are aware of their professional strategy, personal values, and talents because they allow them to efficiently develop their subordinates’ talents; (4) they understand that young employees learn from them, they mould them for their entire life, in future these people will copy their attitudes and a communication style, which can build or ruin the intellectual and social capital, at least the business trust capital; (5) they react to pathologies and wrongs in their environment; (6) they use clear and fair rules of assessing and awarding; (7) they do not relativize the terms like: honour, loyalty responsibility.