Management Ethics

MANAGEMENT ETHICS 1
Management Ethics
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MANAGEMENT ETHICS 2
Management Ethics
Introduction
Ethics refer to moral principles guiding the behavior of an individual. These morals are defined
by cultural practices, social norms as well as religious influence. In every organization, the
ethical decision making process is very essential in assessing the moral implications of
employees actions. All the decisions established in a company should have a moral or ethical
dimension for them to help in creating a serene working atmosphere and result in attraction of
more customers. It should be the role of the manager to inculcate ethical behaviors in employees;
it may not be effective to define the business ethics based on matter of personal integrity and
autonomy (Trevino, Linda, and Nelson, 2017).
Ethics in business
It is hard for a business to be ethical without clear defined expectations. It is the role of the
mangers to ensure they create an organization culture that includes the rules and guidelines based
on how the workers should interact with one another and the customers as well (Aithal, 2016). If
the manager fails to take an active role in defining these rules and guidelines, the employees will
conduct themselves according to their individual definition of ethics as well as their values. In
some cases, this may not be morally sound and may lead to creation of conflicts or driving the
clients away, which may lead to collapsing on the business in the long run (Luetge, Armbrüster,
and Müller, 2016). Therefore, it is important for manager and other leadership to ensure they
provide guidelines to employees on how they should carry themselves and treat each other with
dignity for the success of the organization.

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The manager can achieve this exercise by establishing programs and holding frequent seminars
whose objectives is to highlight the important of ethical behavior and maintain its awareness to
the employees and other stakeholders (Madhani, 2016). Establishing clear expectations also
provide guidance for organization leadership to understand the right action to take against the
employee who is not adhering to the ethical guidelines. These guide can also be applied and form
the basis of question used by the human resource manager during the process of recruitment,
they help in determining if the employee has what it takes to observe the code of ethics
established in an organization (Ferrell, and Fraedrich, 2015).
Maintaining an ethical behavior in an organization is a hard work and requires sacrifice, which
some employees have not capacity to make. After all, if the organization does not meet its goal
within the stipulated time, they feel they have nothing to lose and therefore, they are not worried.
If they lose their job, they can get another one in a different company. However, the managers
are responsible for maintaining their reputation of the organization and also working hard to
stand out from the competitors (Robertson, Voegtlin, and Maak, 2017). They also want to leave a
good legacy such that they can be considered for another post in a different organization once
their contract comes to an end. Therefore, they should be at the fore front in ensuring ethical
behaviors is observed by every employee. Sometimes they have to pay the cost and make tough
choices just for the sake of ensuring ethic is observed by every stakeholder (Breckova, 2016).
However, allowing the employees and other workers in the company to make decision without
interfering from the management is an important aspect as it give employee courage on what
they does. It is not good for the management to keep on pressuring them to follow laid down
rules. If I may say, allowing them to make decision will help workers to decide what is good and
what is bad to themselves. However, when it comes to making ethical decision the company may