Analyzing Brexit's Impact on UK Businesses: Ethics and MIS Strategies

This report provides an in-depth analysis of the multifaceted impact of Brexit on UK businesses. It begins by outlining the ethical conflicts and turbulence that have arisen in professional careers and workplaces due to the UK's withdrawal from the European Union, including recruitment challenges, employment of EU migrant workers, and workforce planning strategies. The report then examines the ethical guidance and advice provided by the UK government, such as the UK-EU withdrawal agreement, the launch of digital tools for traders, and data protection updates. Furthermore, it evaluates the role and effectiveness of Management Information Systems (MIS) in helping businesses navigate the complexities of Brexit, emphasizing how MIS can drive operational excellence, improve decision-making, and enhance competitive advantages. The study concludes by summarizing the positive and negative effects of Brexit on UK workplaces and highlighting the importance of MIS in fostering effective decision-making within organizations.

INDIVIDUAL REPORT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3
Ethical conflict and turbulence in professional career and at the workplace............................................3
Philosophical theories and professional body ethical guidance and advice..............................................4
MIS development and acquisition approach in acquiring relevant systems for organizations.................5
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
It is very important for the organisation as well as the government to have an effective set
of rules and regulations in form of law that they set to run a business smoothly (Cowton, 2017).
Present study is based on Brexit that is the withdrawal of UK from European Union and this was
done with the help of voting system. Report will include different ethical conflicts that have
arisen at the workplace due to Brexit. Report will also identify the respective ethical guidance
from the UK government with respect to the Brexit and its effect. At the end report will evaluate
the use of Management Information system at the workplace and the way it will be helpful for
the business is the situation of Brexit.
MAIN BODY
Ethical conflict and turbulence in professional career and at the workplace
In 2016, about 52% of the population voted to leave the European Union and 48% voted
for not leaving the same. As a result the country announced its withdrawal in 2017 and the Brexit
process started. UK left the EU in 2020 and decided that the UK remains subject to EU law and
its custom union, but will no longer be EU’s political bodies. Due to this reason different
conflicts started at the professional career and at the workplace. There are many economist who
predicts that Brexit will be damaging long term effects on business economy of UK and also
have reduced the British GDP, there national income and also international trade from 2016.
However, it is been analyzed that the decision have resulted to growth of employment as UK
leave the EU in 2016. But in the year 2019, the Labour market remained very high and the
vacancies of employees are very high enough(Bloom and et.al., 2019). When it comes to
recruitment of employees, the difficulty level have been increased for many employers at the
workplace as the number of EU citizens that have come to UK for the purpose of job are not
rising effectively and it is affecting the employment growth rapidly. It has become tough for the
organizations to fill the vacancies and due to these reasons only they are increasing the salaries
of the key staff(Collis and et.al., 2018).
Other issues that are arising at the workplace due to Brexit are the employment of EU
migrant workers. The employers are still employing the EU migrant workers and the common
reason that was given by different organisation was that they do not hire the employees on basis

of their nationality and only select the candidate on bases of their respective skills. Human
resource management at the organisation is increasing the salaries of its staff in order to attract
them and company is facing hiring difficulties. Companies are providing flexible working hours
and an career development opportunity in order to retain the people that are having desirable
skills for long period. Businesses are taking strategic workforce planning in order to identify the
required skills and knowledge within the employees so that they can help the firm to achieve
future goals of the organisation. However, Brexit have also inspired many creative works and
people are set free to share their point of view at the workplace so that they can come up with
more effective ideas(Wolff, 2019).
Therefore, the Brexit have affected the UK and its workplaces both positively and
negatively. It will take time for the organizations to have an effective working environment.
Philosophical theories and professional body ethical guidance and advice
There are different ethical guidance and advice that are given with respect to Brexit and
these guidance are as following:-
 The UK-EU withdrawal agreement was in effect after January 2020 and was
implemented in the law of UK law through EU act. There are different IP rights that are
intellectual property rights for protection and enforcement of the products and services.
The different trademark, community design etc. are protected with the help of these right
after Brexit. Newly created IP rights will be registered automatically and is generally free
of charge by the UK IPO(Smith, 2018).
 Launch of digital tools for traders:- There are two new digital tools that have been
introduced by the government that will be useful for the organizations that are exporting
their goods and services out of UK and are published with the help of Department for
international trade. This will be helping many organizations to run their businesses
smoothly and The Trade with UK tool will be providing up-to-date information on tariffs,
taxes and different rules that are set the government.
 The government also worked to update the ICO on data protection requirements and that
have helped many businesses to make their data protected(Ahmed and Fahey, 2019).

There are various legal issues that are arising due to Brexit and is affecting the
businesses’ contractual; obligations. There are issues related to interpretation, financial
hardship and also other commercial impacts. It is leading to imposition of traffics, restriction
on movement of people and also leading to changes in the exchange rates.
MIS development and acquisition approach in acquiring relevant systems for organizations
During the situation of Brexit, organisation can take help of Management information
system with the help of which they can bring an effective competitive advantages for the
businesses and they will be compete more effectively with respect to their competitors. This also
helps the business to produce its products at a lower cost and bring more profitability at the
workplace. This helps the business to bring operational excellence and works to deal with the
situation of Brexit more effectively. MIS brings new business model and helps in bringing an
effective product offering at the organisation. There will be an improved supplier and customer
relation in this situation and here the historical data is been used for creating the offerings that
are able to fulfill the actual needs of the customers. This helps the UK organizations to become
more profitable position in market. MIS leads to an effective decision making and whenever the
business design and effective information technology is been implemented it leads to improved
decision making of the business(Ateş, van Raaij and Wynstra, 2018).
Management information system is an effective tool that is used by the businesses to
support their business processes, operations and IT. There are supportive data and information
with the help of which business is able to bring core discipline at the workplace. There are data
driven report produced with the help of MIS and this helps the business to make a right decision
at the right point of time. With the use MIS the management is able to get an overview of the
entire operations and it also helps the top management to get feedback of their entire
performance. The organization can maximize its benefits with the right investments by seeing
what is actually work for them. Managers of the firm can compare the results of their plan with
the actual performance that have occurred. This helps the business to identify their respective
strengths and weaknesses on which they have to work. In this situation of Brexit, the firms of
UK can use MIS for driving workflow improvement at their respective organizations as it helps
to align the different business practices according to the needs of the customers. It helps the

business managers to have an effective problem solving skills and strategic thinking skills in
hand(Byron, 2019).
Company can also opt for acquisition approach in order to work effectively in situation of
Brexit. This approach helps the businesses to find an effective methodology that can help the
firm to target various other companies in order to generate revenue for them. This generally
results in an profitable outcome for the business. The organisation in UK can opt any of the
strategy to make their business run in these difficult situations that Brexit is been creating for
them.
CONCLUSION
From the above study it is been concluded that the Brexit have resulted in different
conflicts that have started in UK with respect to professional career development and also in
organisational development. Report also conducted that Brexit have created both positive and
negative role for different workplace as it have brought new creativity at the work place and on
the other side it have created issue with respect to the recruitment of employees and providing
them an effective working conditions. From the above report it is been concluded that there are
different ethical issues that are been created due to Brexit and for the same government have
created different laws to regulate the same. Report finally concluded that with the help of
management information system the businesses are able to compete in market in the difficult
situation of Brexit and will help the firm to bring an effective decision making.

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