Workplace Ethics and Employee Productivity

This assignment examines the crucial relationship between workplace ethics and employee productivity in Nigeria. It delves into various aspects of workplace ethics, such as ethical decision-making, integrity, and social responsibility, and analyzes their influence on employees' motivation, job satisfaction, and overall performance. The assignment also investigates how a strong ethical culture contributes to increased organizational productivity and sustainable success within the Nigerian business environment.

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Executive summary
In this report, the significance of the workplace ethics will be discussed. The interview of an
engineer has been taken and its probable answers has been discussed in this report. The report is
based on the several aspects of the workplace ethics and an elaborate study has also been
researched on this topic and that will be reflected here.

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Table of Contents
Significance of the work place ethics..............................................................................................3
Interview questions..........................................................................................................................6
Interview answers............................................................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
Bibliography....................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
The workplace behavior and ethics is regarded as a crucial part for the employment that has
aspects that can assist ones efforts to be profitable. These two important aspects are based on the
performance that has high morale and teamwork for its success. The key component of any
workplace is the behavior and the ethics of an individual. The ethical behavior tends to be good
for the business that involves demonstrating the key moral principles that includes dignity,
equality, diversity, honesty, fairness and the individual rights. Integrity plays an important aspect
in the workplace that means for instance the employee of any organization who would like to
register cash is expected to balance the deposit and the drawer of the correct amount. In this
report,
Significance of the work place ethics
In this section, the conditions of the business have to be on a quick pace and be profoundly
aggressive. In order to maintain that pace and be ahead there is a need for the organizations to
assure that the workplace ethics is maintained in a proper way (Lowery, Duesing and Beadles
2014, p.408). The key characteristics for an example is the co operation, appearances,
participation and the mentality that will help in increasing the value of oneself as well as that of
the organization. A strong ethical culture in any business organization will help in safeguarding
ones assets, which is really an important thing (Mukherjee, Bhattacharjee and Singha 2016). The
employees need to abide by the workplace ethics so that the company may also invest in the
employees in respecting and protecting their assets. The company needs to specify what the
acceptable behavior is and what is not in the organization, when they are hiring the employees.
There is a need to summarize the expected conducts that is required in the description of the job

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or during the process of the interview. (Verschoor 2013, pp. 11-14) The guidelines that need to
be typically addressed on the topics like the work culture, language and the harassments. There is
a need to follow the codes of conduct that may receive verbal and written warnings and may be
ultimately fired.
The key component of the workplace behavior and ethics is to maintain integrity, be honest,
or always do the right things (Taylor and Pattie 2014, pp.595-616). For an instance an employee
of a health care needs to work on one’s psychically or mentally challenged patients that must
possess an integrity of high degree that needs to be managed and worked primarily with money.
There is a need for integrity amongst the workers that will avoid sneaking and gossiping in the
workplace.
Accountability is like taking actions for ones responsibility that is another major factor. This
means that arriving on time or showing up on the scheduled workdays is like putting an honest
effort in the job. The workers need to exhibit the accountability so that it remains honest even
when the things go wrong and then work towards the resolution that needs to be professional all
the time (Mitonga-Monga, Flotman and Cilliers 2016, pp. 326-333)
There is a need for teamwork in any workplace and this co ordination of the work with one
another will help one to improve one’s skill as well as ones productivity (Holmquist 2013, pp.
2221-2236). There is a need to include everyone in it from the peers to the supervisors and the
customers even. Not all the employees will be found to like each other but they need to set aside
their personal grievances during the office time. When these issues will be resolved, the
organization will start to prosper and their growth can be seen. In some of the instances, the
people who are not considered as the team players might often face demotion or termination.

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Whereas on the other hand it can be said that those who can easily work well with others can
easily work alone (Michaelson et al. 2015, pp. 77-90). Even when the teamwork has an
outweighing level of the performance, the organization might face a problem.
In case of the commitment, there is a need for a proper guideline that will help the people in
the workplace to make a comparatively high level of importance in the level of the dedication.
There is a need to possess the necessary skill that is quite essential and has a strong work ethic
along with a positive attitude towards carrying the job in a long way (Hartman, DesJardins and
MacDonald 2014). There is a need for dedication that has been viewed in the world of business
that is contagious and it means that the employees are strong enough to control the efforts and
inspire them as well to their co workers.
The work place ethics is regarded as an integral part that helps in fostering an increased
amount in the productivity level and in the teamwork amongst our employees. This will help in
aligning with the various values in the business of the organization. hence by achieving this it
helps in the integrity, community and the open mindedness of the employees. The ethics will
enable one worker to feel a strong bond in the alignment between their values and those in the
business(Chiang and Tseng 2016, p.46). They often show such strange feelings that has been
increased through the motivation and productivity.
The public image will help one to earn a lot of respect and there is an immense need to
cultivate it through a strong image when making choices in the ethical issues. For example, there
is a need to fulfill the corporate social responsibility by minimizing the waste discharges from
the business. The publics need to consider the business by operating it through an integral and
honor way while valuing the people over the profits (Ewest 2015, p.12). There is a need to build

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strong image through the various ethical conducts that needs to be earned by the clients. The
customers need to develop the trust and also to build the business in a strong way in the
organization (SHENOY 2016).
There is a requirement for the proper attendance amongst the employees that is a
compulsory thing in making it build a guaranteed achievement in the maintenance and the
objectives of the workplace ethics (Adeyeye et al. 2015). This learning opens up an entryway
that presents an open door for the career orientation of the individuals. As one enters the working
environment, there is a requirement for the ethical code of conduct that is much important in
order to meet the convenient commitments so that it becomes a quick paced condition.
Interview questions
Why there is a requirement for the work ethics in an individual?
As per me what can be considered the most crucial workplace ethic?
What could the important workplace ethics in one’s organization?
What could be the possible two workplace ethics that needs to be possessed?
Does the ethics in the workplace ultimately helps in improving the level of the
performance in an employee?
Interview answers
An individual must possess a workplace ethics and that will eventually help the
organization. One must possess the ethics that includes honesty, corporate standards and several
other morals that is important. In order to sustain the organization just like the organization needs

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to provide and help various facility to the employees and the later should assure of providing and
helping the organization by enhancing its own self. None can survive without the help of the
organizational workplace ethics. As per the Kolb’s learning theory, there is a requirement for the
introduction of new ideas that is primarily based on the various inconsistencies that is found in
the understanding and the experiences of the ethics.
Morality and behaviour can be considered the two most crucial workplace ethics. A
strong ethical culture in an organizational business helps in safeguarding one’s assets. The
employees who abide by the ethics of the workplace would be able to respect and protect the
assets of the business. The environment should have an integrity and strong ethics ins ensuring
the performance of the work culture. From the reflective observation of the Kolb’s learning
theory, thee workplace ethics that are most important can easily be identified.
Cooperating with one another and maintaining a healthy workplace environment is
something that is quite essential as a workplace ethics in any organization if seen from my point
of view. The essential ethics in the workplace includes the corporate standards, morals,
principles of direct, code of training or organization theory with respect to the duty to workers,
investors, shoppers, the earth or whatever other parts of society outside to the organization.
There is a need to build good relationships and healthy work culture by maintaining the work
environment. The active experimentation that one has been influenced from in the Kolb’s cycle
is primarily based on those that can be applied from around the world when it comes to the
results.
Maintaining the team work and an integrity can be considered as the two possible
workplace ethics. Team work is required in every organization that will eventually help the

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organization in many beneficial programs in their long run. Integrity must be possessed by an
employee that includes being honest and holding strong moral principles. Possessing these
qualities will help one to improve and cultivate their own self in a better way in the workplace.
From the Kolb’ s learning cycle it is quite evident that these integrated processes has helped in
understanding the two most essential workplace ethics.
Yes, certainly I do believe that work place ethics will help one in improving the level of
their performance. This will ultimately help one in various stages of life even if they are not
working in that same organisation. The workplace does vary from place to place to some extent,
but the basic few remains the same. From the Kolb’s learning cycle, it is quite evident that the
reflection on the observation in the experience can be viewed on the basis of the particular
importance that is based on the various inconsistencies that is primarily based on the
understanding and the experience.
Conclusion
The workplace ethics is almost a standout that is considered the most basic issue in the
business world and particularly in the human resource management. The moral cultural
association helps in providing directions and guidance from different ranges with a specific goal
to make symphony, moral and united workers. The code of the ethics is made on a decent marker
in the association that has the responsibility of accepting the requirement that is solely for the
moral practices and also has the power of executing it. The work ethics needs to be alluded in
order to come up to a social standard that needs support of the individuals in order to become
accountable so that it can charge their work the way they light up the conviction in the work that
has bought an inborn incentive to that person. As per the corporate code of ethics an

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announcement can be made on the various morals, principles of direct, corporate standards and
the codes of training that is regarded as the duty of the investors, shoppers and workers that has
to be on earth or any other part in the world. The impression of the representatives is to make the
moral association of the atmosphere to be fully observed and identified making their work
completely fulfilled in an authoritative duty that makes the performance of the organization. The
appraisals due to the performance by the companions and the employees is to make such a
technique that will help in measuring the execution of their work. The work place where the
needs to make their performance seen through the conduct of the humans with an evaluating
angle. The workers need to conduct and show at their work those which is not identified and has
a specific side in most of the parts that is on how well one performs his or her duty. This can be
regarded as a consistent meaning for their work ethics that has been responsible primarily for
their work that has to make their ethical conduct satisfactory.

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