Ethics and Responsible Management

Ethics and Responsible
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
Part 1-A Report...........................................................................................................................4
Explain the ethical issues with support of relevant sources........................................................4
Five Stakeholders........................................................................................................................5
Recommendations.......................................................................................................................6
Part – 1-B....................................................................................................................................7
Part-2 ..........................................................................................................................................9
Reflective Essay(Ethical leadership management).....................................................................9
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Ethical responsibility refers to the ability to recognise, interpret and act upon principles of
multiple level and values according to the standards within a given field or context. Ethical
responsibility is very important from the organisation point of view because accordingly
employees work towards it in ethical manner towards their goals. Employees can take better
decisions within less period of time when business ethics have been followed with a guiding
principle(Agag and Colmekcioglu., 2020). As a result it improves the employee morale and
increases productivity as well. In the present report, a case study is taken into consideration on
Southern Water. The case study highlights that Southern water has received a fine record for
polluting coastal areas in parts of Hamsphire, Sussex and kent where they operate. Southern
water is basically a private utility company which is responsible for public waste water collection
and treatment in Hamsphire. The present report will cover discussion about ethical issues an role
of business in society. In addition to this, the report will cover analysis about the particular key
stakeholders and also about good and bad ethics as well along with recommendation. Moreover,
the report will cover discussion about different theories related to case study along with
recommendations. The report also consist of reflective essay on ethical leadership management.
MAIN BODY
Part 1-A Report
Explain the ethical issues with support of relevant sources
Ethical issues refers to the given decision, scenario or activity creates a conflict with a
society's moral principles. In these conflicts, both businesses and individuals are involved since
any of the activities might be put to question from an ethical standpoint. In context to case study,
it has been observed that company has admitted 6971 illegal spills from seventeen sites in
Hampshire, Kent and Sussex between the year of 2010 and 2015(Bapat.,2020). These spills have
been occurred due to result of negligence due to which company has been fined with record of
£90m for deliberately dumping billions of litres of raw sewage into the sea. This kind of activity
by the company has crossed the ethical manners of an organisation and also contribute towards
making the environment dirty and crosses the limits of environmental guidelines as well.

It is important for an organisation to follow rules and regulations of the environment so
that business activities can't harm the environment into negative manner. It is necessary that to
follow guidelines of environment into positive manner so that an organisation work into ethical
manner.
Role of business in society
The role of business in society is that they produce and distribute goods and services in
order to satisfy the public needs or demand. Society also exist or run on the basis of different
kinds of businesses and without any kind of an economy there is no existence of
society(Bonsu.,2020).In context to case study, Souther water role is that they are responsible for
public waste water collection. They are also responsible for treatment in Hampshire, the isle of
Wight, West Sussex and Kent. They also take care about public water supply and distribution in
approximately half of this area.
Five Stakeholders
According to case study, there are five main stakeholders of Southern water company
which includes owner of the company named as Justice Jeremy Johnson. In addition to this,
consumers, investors, local communities and government as well (Brinkmann.,2019). It has been
observed from case study that with these ethical issues the owner of the company has to sacrifice
the image of company into the marke(Collins., 2018). Owner has to face large amount of loss
and consumers do not take properly services of the company. Investors also get affected by these
issues because they can't no more trust the company and not interested in the company for future
investment. The local communities and government also affected by this action of the company
because now they have to plan and take initiative towards resolving this issue and have to give
proper answers to the environmental communities as well.
Examples of good and bad ethical practices
The two examples of good ethical practices has been defined into following manner:
Sainsbury's: It is the company who is committed towards ethical trading and sourced their
products with integrity (Cunliffe., 2021). They have followed proper guidelines and rules and
regulations and work into ethical manner in terms of executing their tasks into positive manner.