Ethical Thinking and Practices in Johnson and Johnson

This report discusses the ethical thinking and practices in Johnson and Johnson, a multinational corporation. It explores the importance of ethical leadership and the role of business in society. The report also addresses various ethical issues faced by the company, such as accounting, harassment and discrimination, workplace health and safety, and technology practices. It highlights the use of utilitarian and deontological ethical theories in decision-making. The report concludes with the significance of ethical leadership in achieving organizational goals.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Part 1............................................................................................................................................1
Part B..........................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERNCES...................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
The term ethical thinking is depicts about to always creates better decision making in
positive manner. As per role of critical thinking plays an important role which enhance to
process for effective determine which provide certain right or wrong as per the sense of proper
critical analysis which helps to determine mental health. In perspective of organisation
perspective it major allows leadership goals in further helps to accomplish objective and aims of
a company.
In this report, the organisation is taken Johnson and Johnson venture is an multinational
corporation where it founded in 1886 where they develop towards medical devices,
pharmaceutical and consumer towards packaged product and service (Arnold, Beauchamp and
Bowie, 2019). They mainly operated from New Brunswick, New Jersey as the total revenue is up
to 85.12 billion along with employees 132,200 actively working on worldwide. It is mainly
operated through different product with personal and health care. By covering report there is
covering about ethical thinking practises where leaders and manager. By applying ethical
theories on the basis of applying case study. At last there is a discussion role about practises
where organisational value that tends to better follow of compliance oriented style.
MAIN BODY.
Part 1.
A)
As the middle manager of Johnson and Johnson company, where different traits of issues
and like role of business which provide betterment towards society that enhance to better prevent
positive outcomes in effective manner. Through highlight different roles and responsibility
where it arises proper systematic by allowing culture, norms and regulation which enhance
compliance oriented work regulation. As manager of Johnson and Johnson company is follows
different tactics to implement for better outcomes accomplish. There are some important ethical
issues in background of Johnson and Johnson company:
 Accounting: It is factor that allows to conduct proper accounting function that depicts
compliance based to maintain better way to regulate all financial term that helps to
keeps record about organisation day to day transciation like cost involvement analysis,
cash flow, balance sheet, profit and loss statement. The term “cookies the books” and
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otherwise towards better establishing unethical accounting base practises publicly by
traded companies (Chaudhry and Sharma., 2018). On the basis of US Federal
Government where to provide better requirement that meant to protect consumer and
shareholder. Even small privately held companies which is must to accurate through
which financial records towards appropriate taxes and employee is having profit sharing
in equal and individually as to attract more investments and partners. In perspective of
Johnson and Johnson company they owns individual to handle overall funds allocate
that acquire more aspect of further uncertainty or financial crises protect in effective
manner.
 Harassment and Discrimination: According to this ethical function which is reflecting
about sexual and abusive harassment along with further discrimination in terms of
equality in gender, pay, culture diversity, inappropriate towards getting positive
outcomes that attain better retention of employees (Ciulla,, 2020). As in Johnson and
Johnson company all these negative influence that acquire through human resource
department as they are reliable about to making or forming of different types of policy
which held to incurred for betterment workplace where human resource manager
scrutinize overall situation and tend to provide positive working environment. Through
this it creates better and high influence which enhance proper working alignment that
regulates through on effective compliance mannerism that tends to getting more
productive as well as US is having their separation Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission (EEOC) that tends to better create age, disability, equal pay structure,
pregnancy, race, religion as well as sex or gender. All these matter in Johnson and
Johnson company which is refers to procure better working environment that allows
positive environment (Ferris and Winker., 2017). As every employees in Johnson and
Johnson are work under equal pay compliance that creates better positive working
environment which tends to allows job satisfaction and also prefer to getting more work
involvement that attain highest optimum traits of benefits to recover better outcomes
which helps to maintain statutory compliance in effective manner.
 Healthy and safety in workplace: Through base of regulation as per according to the
Occupational Safety and Health administration where company is reliable to pay the
structure within the safe working condition. In any working place, health and safety that
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allowances to rectify for better allowances, DA, HRA and others which all involve in
salary that creates more flexible towards get better attain employees. As on average ,
few companies are there which are not proper follow health base structure which is
needed towards employees benefits that optimum way to attend high positive quality of
outcomes. Furthermore, job security and health precaution that allows more in death of
employees chances (Gelinas and et. al., 2017). The situation of Johnson and Johnson
company their human resource department is responsible to making ensure that each and
every employees must get work health insurance where they get more further benefits in
systematic way. Moreover, the purpose of implementing proper health and safety that
enhance to concern for not opposing physical harm (Gray, 2019). Some of the factor
which highlight about job insecurity, high demands, efforts reward imbalance and low
autonomy where they would found to better contribute towards effective health related
behavioural risk that involve high practises secondary or consumption of heavy alcohol
along cigarette etc.
 Technology practises: As to enhance of technological is having better disagreement
and development to ensure the capability that enhance more vast development in terms
of increase the mobility that direct implementation within company. Employees are one
of valuable assets for company where their major contribution is skills and knowledge
activity in company base provider to optimum essential base resources that electric
surveillance that makes an ensure efficiency to increase better productivity as well as
ensure better productivity piracy action. Most of organisation allows better and long
durability of resource which obtain high source of productivity that contributed by
employees. Similarly, product manufacturing in Johnson and Johnson company
workforce are enables to contribute positive outcomes and it reduces the barriers and
key using technological surveillance in an ethical manner towards ensure employees
towards generate profitability through 43% storing of files and other related document
which is enhance better way to execute effectively (Hunter and et. al 2018). In order to
making ensure employee police investigation that does not customised into an ethical
issue to business through employees should remain conscious of actual benefits for
effective monitored which is useful that record towards job performance.
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Role of business in ethical issues in society which are recommended towards Johnson and
Johnson company.
As per the business ethical issue are follows through the Johnson and Johnson company
which enhance better positive outcomes and along with flexibility for getting high employment
stability in effective manner that arises more policies and strong contribution by society:
 Corporate Social Responsibility: According to this factor it emphasis about better
contribution which is enhance better social flexibility towards benefits society. CSR
allows different opportunity that commence positive regulation which is generate brand
awareness in which companies like Johnson and Johnson company promotes and invest
their interest as capitalism towards society development (Javed and et. al , 2017). It also
provides better development scope which allows company benefits in better management
terms.
 Business Ethics: This is mainly emphasis about the rules and working related
compliance which needed to follows and better approach to get better active through
making positive working environment in company. In perspective of Johnson and
Johnson company their top level management creates sort of their own ethics that allows
to get generate better outcomes in better way.
B)
Some of ethical base theories which is plays an important role to accomplish
organisational goals or objective in effective manner toward monitored and controlled overall
positive and negative factor such as maintaining internal assessment which generate better
regulation in organisation (Kaptein, 2017). In perspective of Johnson and Johnson company
there are two ethical theories which is alternative to be used in company productive manner.
 Utilitarian Ethics: This is one of important and first system in normative ethics
utilitarianism which is often to be equated and better concept of greater goods that
effectively evaluated in effective manner. The ideas is behind to making ethical decision
making which is needed to better implemented in company task and development
growth. To implies the action for reduces consequences towards better positivism
outcomes generate in effective manner. The factor of attraction in Johnson and Johnson
company is prevails to appear for better weigh impact on behaviour involved through
better determine the efficient manner. To provide employees for chosen action itself in
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order to determine which emphasis better ethical issues in order to making decision
making. The major role of decision making process it generates greater productive
towards positive outcomes which ethically refers about to systematic way to attain better
work alignment (Leenes and et. al., 2017). Second, way is provide about to approach
this theory of ethics that effectively presents to conflicts with regards about to better
segments that society that get better assortment through considered greater outcomes.
As per Johnson and Johnson company it enhance to reduce all conflicts which could
disturb relationship towards public related or public stakeholder group. Third way is
type of objection that creates more possible predict outcomes which enhance where
better accurate that enhance to measure of ethics of situation in effective manner.
Professional must be evaluated on the basis of decision making which is ethically
concerted to abiding guidelines that expected by Johnson and Johnson company
managers to made an better ethical choice (Myers, 2019). Furthermore, ethical scholar
are more into public relation which is prevented more in ethical relation that is
identically which is having evidence to utilitarianism where some time it mainly refers
as concept relying different types of consequences of a better decision making which is
tend to evaluate professional ethics.
 Deontological Ethics: This is one of second prominent concept that is emphasis
towards father of modern deontology. This ethics is derives to making understand that
employees of company must ensure to be treated in positive manner in terms of work
discipline. The main objective is comprises about behind different obligation and or
duties that are required towards all people which helps to attain more manpower
attainment. Through facing of simple process which is enhance to measure willingness
duties as well as towards making appropriate in decision making. As in Johnson and
Johnson company they mainly faces challenges in terms of without having any
agreement or lack of terms and condition type of regulation get to involvement of
principle in decision making then there is chances of conflict arises (Robertson,
Voegtlin and Maak, 2017). Some of implication which enhance to create right choices
along with faces right consequences. Human resource department is arises that they are
enables to enhance decision making ethical form.
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Deontological theory contain many positive aspect which is flows more rationale that creates
better deciding in individual duties. Therefore, a business person that tend to decide through
duties which is enables to getting meeting done that getting more flexible enough as well as
behaviour to get regulates that chase to making duties in effective way. In Johnson and Johnson
company, the huamn resource department has design company organisation structure as well as
each department is having their own roles and responsibility that they regulated and providing
each person in that to optimise better for of work duties enhance in effective that creates m,major
role in organisation to approach high returns in terms of productivity.
Evaluation : In above both theories of ethical play important role in different where
Deontological Ethical and Utilitarianism ethical which is flexible uses in Johnson and Johnson
company human resource department where they get to enhance to get design towards better
each and every department towards assigning individual employees where they capabilities
department assign as per accordingly. In other theory of ethical is ensuring about undertaking
action when there is any for of uncertainty appears that could generate better form of positive
working environment. Statuary compliances involves by Johnson and Johnson internal working
assessment as it support to all working regulation is systematic appears in better form of
regulatory format such Harassment and Discrimination Laws, Equality in Gender base pay Law
and further employment law that applicable. These laws are comprises in different ways that
helps to setting better compliance oriented strategy which allows better source of work alignment
which creates major work regulation that enhance employees retention as well as it creates high
job hierarchy within in better way. Human resource department plays an important role to
identified their major principle which helps to get over these type of working regulation that
enhance better structure along with it enables better work facility to making scrutinize in
optimum feedback that helps to gain organisation profitability
Part B
In organisation there is need if ethical function along with to better regulate they require
effective source of leadership that helps to attain better organisational goals which essential to
gaining more working productivity. Ethical leadership is majorly defines about its promoting
normatively enhance effective way to appropriate to conduct through personal actions and
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having interpersonal relations where people helps to mange their working regulation along with
they enhance to get better alignment of work in effective manner that helps to better gain profit
and loss. Leadership enhance to mean about ethical is important where high tech of variety and
reasons where customers, employees and company presence to create better culture that prevents
positive working environment along with tries to get over more goal accomplishment..
In Short term preferences where ethical leaders that helps to boost employee morale and
also help them to motivate and about their management along with their work, it mainly
increases positivity and collaboration where in organisation like Johnson and Johnson enhance to
allows more working regulation through better reforms structure. In Long term where people are
get to ethical leadership that prevents more dilemma along with further issues that prevents more
in working regulation (Yang and Wei, 2018). The another factor of loyal employees are having
one crucial elements of long term success where business get to better established in effective
manner. In the end of day leadership and ethics are comes under ethical principles which is
having major short and long term benefits and individuals Some of traits which is need to
transfer as Good Communication skills, Decision Making skills, Accuracy, high motivation
factor etc all these traits which is has been discussed is come under in ethical base leader that
better helps to gain optimum experience which enables towards handling employees of particular
organisation. Willgness and competency that involves good leaders that involve within sure in
business expands, get brought adaptability that is one of success key which makes an ethical
leader most positive influence. A good organisation leader are help to willingness which in take
to charge that enhance to coming that encourage to employees in efficient way for getting attain
productive success in effective way.
Other objective of how ethical leadership can develop organisation. They majorly work
on roots to making proper and systematic regulatory work that enhance better regulation working
attributes undergoes to and better create which enhance positivity along with setting new
guidelines in which employees are used to working in such set of regulation. It makes to
effective advantages taking where power of dynamic and design compliance oriented to provide
skills and knowledge towards employees where it helps to accomplish the organisational task in
effective manner. Good leaders is having effective leadership skills where problem arises in fair
everyone involved in effective manner. Leader who faces ethics to major handle their stress in
productive and positive way to accompanied in positive outcomes as well as it encourage to
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rebuilt structure in effective manner . Organisation manager is only role to motivate their
manpower as well as try to provide them optimum instruction and friendly workplace
environment through which their workforce could better achieve targets side by side they
increase their hierarchy level. Judgements and appraisal must conducts in fair manner that
creates positive type of environment through where more along with make them focuses and
goal oriented that majorly helps to scrutinize in efficient way. In following there are some
qualities which need in ethical leader that helps to gain better working condition:
 Honesty: Being an ethical leader it must to be honest and loyal with its professions that
makes him more truthful and seems to be successful that leads towards new benchmark
level off success.
 Integrity: This makes individual leaders as talented and always who have positive
thinking o become more efficient in their career by enhancing enough trust that provide
them a gaols and objective achiever.
 Impartiality: It is something which makes more vulnerable that enhance ethical qualities
along with high expectation that effective dealing with employees. The workforce are
tend to be more follow the leader which makes more amicable behaviour which shows
positivity towards accomplish goal and objectives.
 Fairness : By dealing with others behaviour in terms of consistence, impartial, objective
accomplish through which having strong sense that dealing with employees that tend to
be best regarding enhance better innovation.
CONCLUSION
As per above report of Ethical base leadership it commence overall all description about
ethical behaviour of leader plays and important role including with theories and further roles
of business that contribute in society for attaining better positive outcomes in effective way
such as positive working environment for employees in particular organisation where they
could attain positive outcomes in productive way.
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