Business Ethics: Issues, Frameworks, and Reflection on Workplace Behavior

This report discusses the issues and frameworks related to business ethics and reflects on future workplace behavior. It emphasizes the importance of ethics in employee satisfaction and organizational growth.

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Table of Contents
Introduction (75 words)...............................................................................................................................1
Summary of issues and frameworks discussed in Part A (150 words).........................................................1
Reflection on your future workplace behavior (700 words)........................................................................1
Conclusion (75 words).................................................................................................................................1
References...................................................................................................................................................1

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Introduction
Business is a process in which an input is given by an organization and an output get with some
benefits in currency. For managing business, many things are necessary, such as employee’s
management, customer’s relationship, operation, products, and services. All these are helpful growth in
business as well as achieving targets. Behavior of company changes many things in working of
employees. A satisfied employee always works with honesty. In this report, it will discuss about behavior
of companies and employees for business growth.
Summary of issues and frameworks
There are so many issues in business growth, because of behavior of upper management
towards the employees. There is a relationship between employees and management, which is based on
ethics. There is framework for working in different cultures of an organization, such as market culture.
Employee’s satisfaction is directly proportional to the growth of an organisation. Organization decides
responsibilities of employees, but they forget about their ethics, such as personal virtue. Because of that
employees are dissatisfied and does not working properly. Therefore, organization must follow the
ethics framework for better growing of business with the help of employees. There are some rules for
employees for working properly. Actually, rules are established for working properly without any fault in
the system and it is the only responsibility of an employee (Trevino & Nelson, 2016).
Reflection on your future workplace behavior
I learnt from my previous working experiences that, I would like behave in polite way to every
person at my work place. There is a different effect of your personality on your colleagues. I would do
my best and behave in a very authentic and appropriate way, so all of them have a faith in me. It will
affect my work and relationship at workplace. Ethical management is a way to handle different situation
at workplace. It refers to corporate management, and it is not for completing targets of business, but it
is helpful for meet expectations of employees as well as business in social norms. All the rules are used
for different conditions for handling them in a proper way (Crane & Matten, 2016).
The right approach of ethic is for protecting ethical rights of employees from different actions of
upper management. It emphasizes the belief that all the employees have a right to dignity. It is not only
for human but it is also for nonliving things such as robots. The virtue approach of ethics is about
personal life of a person at workplace (Weiss, 2014). An employee of good character would be one who
has attained certain virtue. Because person’s life affects their work and it is regarding their work and it
takes the process of training part of the employees. It emphasize the employees for working honestly
and more energetic. A professional ethics require integrity of different things, such as principles, actions,
expectations, consistency, and outcomes (De George, 2011).

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I influence with respect for people’s rights and dignity at workplace. If we give respect to any
person then it will reflect in future for you. All are based on the different ethical principles, such as
integrity, justice, fidelity and responsibility. I learnt from my previous experiences that building a
relationship between manager and employees are a good thing for business. Professional ethics refers
to professional life of a person in their interaction and business dealing. A profession is requiring good
ethics in an employee; it is the fundamental requirement of a profession for getting a good growth
(DesJardins, 2014).
Higher management decides many things for operations and employees working processes,
such as timings, payment and leaves. If they understand their feelings and provide different facilities for
employees then it will reflect in their work. It is so simple that happy employees give their best for work
and it will directly affects to the company growth as well as outcomes. I thought every organization
follow some rules for making employees satisfied at their working places (Jin, Drozdenko, & Bassett,
2007).
Corporate governance is the set of rules and regulation for the working in an organization. These
rules are for the different workers of an organization, such as stakeholders, the board of directors,
regulators, managers, auditors, and creditors. Governance in corporate filed is so helpful for managing
different operations of organization. Working is based on the Culture of different organization, which
influences employees for hard work, as they are motivated from working culture of an organization. I
leant about four types of culture in organizations, which are clan culture, adhocracy culture, market
culture, and hierarchy culture (Ritter, 2006).
Codes of conducts are beneficial for organization as well as for employees. Some rules and
responsibilities of employees are defined for working. Many things are based on the rules for employees
for working. As every organization has some responsibility for providing facilities to employees for their
work as incentives (Rossouw & Vuuren, 2017).
Conclusion
It is concluded form the last parts of this report that, ethics are mandatory for the employees as
well as for the organization for better growth of both of them. Behavior of higher management creates
a relationship between employees and organization. As an employee, I would work hard for my
organization and I put more effort in my work.
Finally, it is concluded that ethics make a bonding between employees and organization, which
is beneficial for organization growth. It is clear from previous part that a satisfied employee is working
properly for an organization.

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