Business Ethics and Responsible Management

This report discusses the importance of business ethics and responsible management in the context of Young's Seafood. It explores the ethical issues faced by the company, their impact on the public image, and the role of business in society. The report also provides recommendations for maintaining an ethical work environment.

BUSINESS ETHICS AND
RESPONSIBLE
MANAGEMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
PART 1 (A)......................................................................................................................................3
Issue of ethics..............................................................................................................................3
Impact of issue on the public image of company........................................................................4
Things which are important to the company...............................................................................4
Business’ role in society..............................................................................................................4
Factors that impacts stakeholders................................................................................................5
Good choices benefit companies and bad choices have a negative impact.................................5
Recommendations........................................................................................................................5
PART 1 (B)......................................................................................................................................6
Ethical theories............................................................................................................................6
PART 2............................................................................................................................................8
Reflection.....................................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Business ethics plays very appropriate role to each and every business in the market. In
the United Kingdom, every busines and venture in this country has highly required to follow
various consideration of business ethics, otherwise, business which not follow this consideration
will be penalised. In this situation it is very prime responsibility of the top-level management of
a company to implement business ethics within its daily operations of business. Basically,
business ethics helps to different organisations and companies for systematically running their
operations of business. By following the concept of business ethics, a business can simply
achieve an effective workforce as well. This is report discusses business ethics and responsible
management in the context of Young’s seafood. There are Young's Seafood is a British
developer and distributor of fresh, frozen and chilled seafood, headquartered in Grimsby,
England, United Kingdom. Some other key aspects of business ethics also have been discussed
in this report. This report has been covered case of supply chains and human rights abuses.
PART 1 (A)
Issue of ethics
Young’s seafood is a very reputed company in the United Kingdom that currently has a
large number of employees. Due to large scope in the seafood industry, it has very large supply
chain as well (Conill, 2017). There are lots of employees within this company puts its huge
efforts for making its supply chain more effective and also more productive. This is one of the
main reasons that, Young’s seafood has very large market share in the UK’s sea food industry.
However, currently top-level management of this company is facing an ethical issue relating
abuse and discrimination. According to top-level management at Youngs Seafood, there are
various managers and leaders works within the company who many times abuses and
discriminates various employees in the workplace on the basis of an employee’s caste, religion,
status, lifestyle, colour and ethnicity etc. These managers and leaders mainly abuse employees in
the supply chain operations and also, they not consider basic human rights in the workplace.
Basically, abuse and discrimination attempt of various managers and leaders within this
company is completely against the business ethics, in which existing management of this fishing

company has highly required to take quick steps towards removing people or elements from the
own workplace which promotes abuse attempts in the daily operations (Tran, 2019). Many times,
leaders and managers abuse their various employees and staff on the basis of their background,
like; caste, ethnicity, religion etc. in which this is big issue to company, so upper management
should think about it.
Impact of issue on the public image of company
Issues like abuse has always negatively impacted to the company’s business performance
and productivity (Remišová, Lašáková and Kirchmayer, 2019). In this situation, upper
management of Youngs seafoods need to take an appropriate decision towards systematically
deal with this abuse issue of business ethics. Attempts like employee abuse is directly violate to
the business ethics, this is the main reason that, upper management of this company should take
some favourable decision for removing this issue from the workplace. Otherwise, this issue can
be badly impacted to the Youngs seafood’s business performance and public image in the
market. Currently most organisations in market place are taking lots of productive steps to
improve their business image in market place. In this situation, upper management of Youngs
seafoods need to resolve all issues for maintaining an excellent business image in market place.
Currently this company has very positive public image in the market, so that there are lots
of people really like to buy products and services to this company. In this situation, existence of
abuse issue within this company’s business operations will be negatively affected perceptions of
customers in the market place, and at the end, Youngs seafood will be lots its excellent public
image in the market (Sabir, Tahir Naved and Khan, 2019). That’s why upper management at this
company have to properly maintained business ethics in its place of work.
Things which are important to the company
In this modern & dynamic world, it is necessary to this company for properly following
various business ethics within its daily operations, because these ethics will enable to this fishing
company for gaining excellent success in the selected market segments. Top-level management
of this company have to understood one small thing that, nowadays, there are very huge
competition in each type of industries or sectors, so that is it prime responsibility of the upper
management at Young’s sea food to inform its various managers and leaders in the workplace for
not to harm and abuse different employees in daily operations (Hauser, 2020). There are existing

management has to take decision towards making an ethical work culture and environment as
well, because an ethical work environment always contributes in removing issues like abuse
from the workplace.
Business’ role in society
A business is always responsible to plays its very positive and productive role in the
society, because it is very necessary in the terms of positively affect various people or customers
in the place of market. In this is situation, upper management of Young’s seafood is also fully
responsible to plays its very excellent role in the welfare of society or market. But, after having
an ethical issue like; abuse, this company can’t play its appropriate role in the society (Baumtrog
and et.al., 2020). So that, upper management at this company need to take favourable steps for
playing its very appropriate role in the society by properly providing different human rights to its
various employees in own all business operations including supply chain.
Factors that impacts stakeholders
Young’s seafood company has various stakeholders as well, in which customers,
employees, suppliers, distributors, government etc. are key stakeholders of the company. In this
situation, existing management should be taken some productive decisions towards positively
affected to various employees in its business environment. In this situation, business ethics can
play very excellent role to this company for positively affecting to many of stakeholders. The
management have to make such environment in workplace which always positively affects to all
stakeholders in market place, because this is necessary to make positive image of business in
market place.
For example; nowadays people of the Youngs seafoods have been very negatively
impacted because of supply chain and human rights abuse, in which the management is fully
responsible to provide all basic human rights to its various employees by following the concept
of business ethics (Brusoni and Vaccaro, 2017). This fishing company need to try formulating its
such business environment that can will be very positively affected to its different stakeholders
in the future.

Good choices benefit companies and bad choices have a negative impact
This is very common thing that, good choices always benefits companies and bad choices
have a negative impact, so that upper management at Young’s seafood company should be
properly understood this very common thing. In this situation, the management of this company
have to choose the business ethics to implement in its workplace, because there are very essential
in maintaining an effectiveness within its workplace. Business ethics are completely a very good
and appropriate choice that can definitely be beneficial to this company in the context of
removing abuse issue from the workplace (Orbik, 2016). On the other side hand, there are bad
choices, like; use politics in the workplace for taking personal benefits, harass people just
because of their different background, abuse employees for self-satisfaction etc. in which these
all bad choices can put negative impact on the Young’s seafood company, so that existing
management should avoid to choose these unethical things.
Recommendations
There is some productive recommendation has been mentioned below, which upper
management of Youngs seafoods have to consider in its business environment to be ethically
formed in market place.
 Nowadays most businesses are putting their huge efforts in the terms of gaining various
effective employees, so that upper management Young’s seafood company need to
maintain business ethics within its each activity or operation of the company, because
these business ethics always contributes in gaining a workforce of many effective
employees.
 By considering various business ethics in the workplace, this fishing company will
simply remove its issue of supply chain and humans rights abuse.
 This is really a very critical issue that will negatively affect to company, so that existing
management should consider various business ethics for systematically dealing with
various issues of business ethics.

PART 1 (B)
Ethical theories
Ethical theories refer to the ethical representation in the workplace which need to be
considered in the industry to maintain the ethical scenario of the company and the resources and
play a part of decision making when the ethics are in play. Ethical theories are as follow: -
Utilitarianism: -
This theory of ethics is based on the one’s ability and skills to predict the result and the
consequences of the actions. In the utilitarian the choice and the optimal yields greatest benefits
are ethical correct in the situation of most people choices. The Utilitarian are sub divided into
two categories the act and the rule utilitarianism (Qadri, 2019).
The Act utilitarianism refer to the one in which the benefit is choose by the most people
and not on personal feelings or societal construction of laws. The Rule Utilitarianism is
concerned as fair law and a fairness of rule. It gives the benefit to most people but with the
fairest way and include the laws structure in it and work according to it. And therefor it the factor
which include the value justice and the benefit at same time. Young Seafood are working on
maintaining the supply management in such a way to increase the effective work in the business,
Ethical theory of utilitarianism helps in understanding the rule and act in the business to get the
best predict and the most benefit to people in the working.
Both the categories of the utilitarianism have disadvantages in them, people need to use
their life experiences in the working and the attempts of the predict outcomes. As in prediction
no one can be certain in the process and can’t be accurate. There will be uncertainty and result
will come unexpected in making the utilitarianisms decision can be appear unethical as the time
passes, when the choices do not give benefit to the most people as the prediction suggest. While
taking the decision by the unilateralism process they need to make sure about the ability of
comparing various consequences type against on similar scale. But on material gains comparing
it is difficult to compare money, intangible gains, happiness as the qualities differ on the longer
period and extent.
Act utilitarianism it is concerned with achievements on maximum goods, so the
individual rights infringed in order giving a great number of people (Roy, 2017). It is not a way

with justice or autonomous for individualism to solutions that benefit the majority. Challenges in
the act process is decision makers on individual faces sets on variable condition and experience
sudden changes in the condition, the change led to change in the original decision and it can
create a conflict as being nice to someone for a while on decision and then suddenly dislike on
the next moment just because the situation turn around and changes and those liking of the
people is no longer the benefits to the most people. Rule on other hand is a conflict of rules in the
process of the utilitarianism is works on laws and ethical correct which can dominant the most
people and motivate in doing the exact right things in ethical manner, it can include coming in
time to the office is a rule and it can help in the majority of people and makes the better working
in the premises.
Youngs seafood need the rule utilitarianism on the working to get motivate the ethical
ways in the business to encourage the employees and maintain the ethical climate of the
organization in a good condition. Ethics are important as they give the respect and working in the
best way and in fishing industries ethics are important as there are a lot of companies in Asian
continent which shows unethical ways of working in the industry and have issues in the ethical
process.
Ethical theory of Rights: -
Ethical theories based on the rights, the rights reflect to the rights made and established
by the society and are being protected by the given authorities and higher authorities. Rights are
considered as the correct ethics & are valid if a larger number of people endorsed them. Even
individual can bestow rights upon the number of people if they have the ability to resources to do
that. The major complex in this theory is to find the rights for a majority of people as it must
decipher the rights of characteristics in the society. Society need to uphold the rights, and ned to
identify the best of the decision regarding the rights wanted in to enact and should be goals *
ethical priorities by the society.
Young Seafood are providing the rights to the employees to maintain the best standards
in the workplace to get the maximum profit in the business and to give the ethical place to work
in the industry sector to those who want to work in the department (Sarkessian and Nguyen,
2017).

The rights of abuse reflect that no one is allowed to abuse the employees in the workplace
in the company as it is unethical and company does not promote such people in the workplace. If
any employee gets the racism in the workplace then the company do fast action on the person
who does so, it is important for the people to work in the ethical way to help the company. Ethics
include no abuse to the animals on additional bases, the company works in the policies and does
not cross the guidelines which are limited and made by the society and are need to followed. No
religion can be harmed and disrespected in the workplace and the young’s seafood respect all the
religion and give every religion same importance in the workplace and manage to understand the
importance in the ethical culture of the business. The culture and ethics need to be maintained
and the unethical work need to be get consulted in a way to end such incidents which can cause
dispute in the company and promote unethical ways to do work.
PART 2
Reflection
As an ethical manager, I believe that no business can survive in the market for the long
time period without following various business ethics within its workplace. This is very essential
to me for always following different ethical and legal considerations within the place of work. As
a manager of business, this is my first obligation that, always motivate to my different
employees, junior managers and leaders to systematically adhere various ethical considerations
(Surdam, 2020). According to my experience, with the support of business ethics I will be able to
make my business very successful and reputed in the market place. Of course, there are other
many other things also matter in the terms of gaining very high success, but business ethics
always gives their great contribution in the organisational success. I completely aware about
increasing market competition, in which I always tries to remove those all things, factors and
elements from my workplace that can negatively affect my business in negative way.
For example; there are most companies in the market faces many issues relating to
business ethics, like; discrimination, harassment, abuse, etc.in which I can also face these all
issues of business ethics within my place of work, so that I am fully responsible to take some few
excellent steps towards properly dealing with these various issue of business ethics. Currently
business ethics are the only way to different businesses in the market for developing a healthy

and comfortable work environment. Basically, by developing this type of environments in the
workplace I will be able to remove these all issues of business ethics from my workplace. I have
learnt somewhere, that an ethical workplace always contributes in achieving an effective
workforce, so that with the support of ethical workplace, I can also simply gain an effective
workforce (Tormo-Carbó, Seguí-Mas and Oltra, 2016). Basically, many of employees or people
mostly like to work in that type of workplaces where upper manager of that workplace already
maintained an ethicalness there.
An employee always be highly motivated to put its huge efforts to while working in an
ethical place of work, so that as an ethical manager, this is my prime duty to maintain various
ethics of business in my workplace. For example; in this job role, I am fully responsible to
consider my employees’ strengths and weaknesses on the basis of their performance, not on the
basis of employees’ background. I have properly understood that, considering employees’
strengths and weakness on the basis of their caste, religion, ethnicity and colour etc. it is fully
violation of business ethics. This is the main reason that, currently many of employees within my
workplace are very satisfied with me, because I always try to do things in very ethical manner. I
know that, many times, many employees have negative motivation in the workplace, so that
these types of employees can negatively affect my business operations. In this situation, I have
highly required to make a strict policy against employees who have negative motivation and
mindset.
I have learnt in a business magazine that, once a company has terminated its those
employees from the workplace who was having negative motivation (Ciulla, 2020). So that as an
ethical manager, I am also responsible to take this type of decisions for maintaining effective
measures of business ethics in the own workplace. Basically, this is very common thing that,
employees with negative mindset and motivation always negatively affect to any company’s
ethical work culture and environment, and that’s why I have required to take quick action about
it. As an ethical manager, I responsible to take action towards adhering various laws, rules &
regulations also in the place of work. For example; employment law, contract law, health and
safety act etc. By considering these all mentioned factors in the personal life, I can simply
perform very well in the job role of an ethical manager in the future. Now I fully understood that,
business ethics are enough to a venture for maintaining its positive image in market place, so I

will try to improve own business image in market place by using business ethics as an ethical
manager in the future.
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded that top-level management at Youngs seafood’s upper management
has obligation to remove issue of supply chain and human rights abuse from its workplace,
because this is completely against the business ethics (Alzola, 2020). By considering various
mentioned ethical theories in the workplace, existing management of this fishing company can
simply remove this issue from own workplace. On the other side, there are a are self-reflection
has been added at the ending of the report. This is a general reflection on the job role of an
ethical manager.
Reflection on the feedback
Recently I received the feedback from tutor, and this feedback learnt many new things
that how to we need to submit a report in the proper manner. Currently making an effective
report on the given topic is very necessary task to learner in the academic sessions. Basically, I
have completed the report on the topic of “Business ethics and responsible management”, and
then submitted that report to tutor for checking. When tutor was analysed that report, then he was
not satisfied with this content of report, and has commented on report in the form of feedback. I
god feedback comments on that report, like; I need to change references, because references
which I have used in this report relates with very high plagiarism. Another comment given by
tutor is that, I need to improve the analysis of ethical issues in this report. In this situation, this
feedback comment of tutor taught me that we can’t make a report very effective without proper
analysis of various content.
There is proper analysis of ethical issues in the report has become very necessary to me
for getting effective marks, in which recently I have putted my huge efforts for proper analysing
different issues of ethics in the report. On the other side, tutor told me in the feedback that, a
paragraph is very contradicting in the report, so I need to break that paragraph to make report

very productive as well informative. In this situation, all comments of recent feedback taught me
that, we can’t achieve higher marks, when we not follow proper structure of the report.
Feedback help me in understanding the actual manner of report and how I can become a good
report writer. It is important to understand every process of working in report and my tutor help
to me in learning lots of new things and made me understand the process of doing the proper
report submission. Feedback and comments are very important to make realizing of mistakes
which we have done in past while doing the reports and it helped in growth and realization in
how to become a good writer. Improving in the recommendation and how we should recommend
things to develop the business and it’s very important to make the best recommendation which
can help business in development and the choices in benefiting the companies which can impact
positive and the choices which can make the negative impact on the company. While writing
things which are important for the company it is very important for us to make sure that we dig a
lot of knowledge about the company and find the ways in which they are lacking to make the
perfect changes to help and benefit and profitability of the organization feedback are necessary in
changes and while writing report ethics need to be understood so that we can find appropriate
ways to do the process. business ethics are very important and the role is very important in every
business for the market and the organization should develop.

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