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Managing People and organization2Introduction:Ethical role played by the managers is considered as important area of the effective decision making. Ethical role of manager includes combination of being a moral person and moral manager (Chonko & Burnett, 2013). Moral personality of the person depends on different factors such as integrity, honesty, and trustworthiness. Integrity not only involved the honesty and truthfulness, but it also considers the soundness of the complete entity that is managed by one person and also the society in which organization is operating its functions. Integrity also involves the compliance of the code such as ethical code of the conduct. The main objective of the ethics includes the doing right thing even in the difficult situations, and this also involves determining the right action at the right time (Trevino, Hartman & Brown, 2000). This essay discusses the concept related to the ethical decision making and how this influences a manager’s ability to be effective. Structure of this report includes different areas which mainly includes three sections that are: First section of the essay includes literature reviewin three different areas that are understanding related to the concept of ethical decision making and its relationship with the effective practices of the management, required capabilities and skills which are necessary for promoting the good ethical decision making, and how personality of person relates with the good ethical decision making. Second section of this essay states the evaluation on the basis of minimum three questionnaires which are taken in the current unit. Third section of the essay includes an action plan under which two goals are stated and each goalhas its own plan which is clearly based on the SMART goal framework. Lastly, paper is concluded with brief conclusion and this is followed by the appendix. Literature review:Ethical decision making & its relationship with effective management:As stated by Garett (2014), since 2001 more than 250 federal prosecutions related to the large organization at global level are filed in United States. From the period 2001-2012, 20 largest fines amounted to US$8.9 billion and it involve number of large and reputed organizations such as Siemens, Kellogg Brown & Root and BAE (corruption), LG Display and Air France/KLM (antitrust), Pharmacia & Upjohn and GlaxoSmithKline (pharmaceutical related
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Managing People and organization3crimes), and UBS (fraud). All these things emerge the important of ethics in managerial decisions. Unethical intentions are defined as expressions of individuals’ willingness and commitment for the purpose of involving in such behavior which is unethical in nature, and in lieu of organization, unethical behavior includes the actions of the member of the organization which breach the societal moral norms defined by society (Kish-Gephart, Harrison, and Trevino, 2010). As stated by Craft (2013), ethics basically is considered as the social construct. It must benoted that maximum research related to this topic mainly focus on the relationship of demographic and personality factors in context of unethical decision-making instead of understanding the social networks that result in this decisional process.There are number of authors who develop models in context of ethical decision making of managers, and these models define the relationship of ethical decision making with the practices of management. While reviewing the model of Jones (1991), it is clear that author mainly focus on those factors which affect the moral decision making and practices of the manager in two ways that are establishing the intention which is ethical and engaging in moral behavior. On the other side Kelley and Elm (2003) stated that this approach reduce the impact of organizational factors related to the experience of the ethical issue. Capabilities and Skills of managers:For the purpose of ensuring ethical decision making, managers must ensure various skills and capabilities such as commitment, competency, consciousness, etc. Managers must ensure commitment towards the ethical factors while taking the decisions which means manager must focus on do the right thing instead of the cost. Commitment towards the rights thing is the most important capability which must be possessed by the managers (Doggett, 2015). Another important capability and skill which must be possessed by manager in context of ethical decisionmaking is the Consciousness which includes the awareness on part of the manager to act in consistent manner and apply the moral standards on regular basis. Another important capability which must be possessed by the manager is the competency, which means; manager must hold the ability to collect and assessed the adequate information. In this manager also develop the alternatives, and also foresee the potential consequences and risks (Freeman & Stewart, 2006).
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Managing People and organization4These three capabilities are the most important capability which is necessary for the ethical decision making, and some other skills and capabilities are also required. For ensuring the ethicaldecision making, managers must take the good decision which must be both ethical and effective. For ensuring ethical decision making, manager must reflect certain skills such as sustain trust, demonstrate respect, responsibility, fairness, and caring of others. These skills of managers ensure the ethics in decision making process (Kannair, 2007). As stated by yukl (2006), ethical decision must be effective in nature also, because any decision which is ethical but not effective does not impact the society in any good way. Therefore, manager must ensure that they possess all these capabilities and skills to take those decisions which are ethical in nature (Singh, 2011). Personality & Ethical decision making:Characters of the leaders directly influence their ethical performance, but poor characters are not the only reason of ethical issues in the corporation. Therefore, it can be said that good character of the person play important role in the effective self-leadership and also in the procedure of leading others. It is necessary for the leaders to focus on their inner voice that directs them towards the ethical pathway (Brown, 2007). As stated by Covey (2004), issue related to the ethical leadership with the term character ethics, that he understood not as of individual character, but of principles that mainly governs human effectiveness being self-validating natural laws. In context of this, individual possessed various values for ensuring the ethical decision, and these values include creativity, social justice and connection with nature. Creativity is that personality trait which ensures innovation in the decision making process and through this trait individual mainly try to ensure that decision taking by person must be both ethical and effective (Beu, Buckley & Harvey, 2003). Another two traits that are social justice and connection with the nature are other two important traits which exhibit the sentiments and moral values of the person related to the society and nature (Campbell & Foster, 2007). Personality of the individual directly affects the ability of the person to take ethical decision making and its impact on decision making are; values and morals is the most important trait of the personality of individual, and it directly affects the choice of the person while taking the decisions. In case person has good values and morals then such person definitely gives
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