Reflective Analysis: Business Ethics Challenges and Resolutions

This essay presents a reflective analysis of the challenges encountered in a business ethics module. The student discusses initial nervousness and the perceived difficulty of the subject matter, emphasizing the importance of ethics for organizations. Using Gibbs' reflective model, the student describes their feelings, evaluates the module's impact, analyzes the need to identify root causes of ethical challenges, and concludes that business ethics are essential for guiding organizational behavior. Furthermore, the essay outlines an action plan to improve communication, critical thinking, and time management skills, supplemented by online classes, creative idea development, and schedule creation. The student reflects positively on the module, highlighting the value of the Gibbs model in explaining their experience and facilitating new learning.

Business Ethics
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Reflection
Analysis of challenges that I faced in this module:
In this module, I found many challenges. I found that ethics are crucial for every organisation
but I identified that it is difficult to follow all the ethics by an organisation. There are many
ethical challenges which I found such as discrimination and harassment, unethical leadership,
toxic workplace culture, etc.
How I dealt with this, and why I took this approach including use of Kolb’s Reflective
Cycle or Gibbs Reflective Cycle?
I found difficulty in order to deal with the challenges. This module is not easy for me and
that’s why I took some necessary steps in order to deal with the challenges. For that purpose, I
use Gibbs reflective model which assists in providing an effective explanation:
Descriptive: I got a module which is based on business ethics in which I had to focus on
analysing the need of ethics, ethical challenges and stakeholders’ role in order to maintain
business standards.
Feelings: I felt nervous as I knew that it is not an easy module. Ethics are very important for
every organisation and it is crucial to follow by each and every company. I felt that it is
necessary for every organisation to follow ethics so that they can able to understand that what
is right and wrong for them.
Evaluation: I found that it is the good for my future as ethics are not only important for
organisation but also crucial for every individual. I felt motivated that now I know the
importance of ethics and ethical philosophies which assists me to behave in an ethical way.
Analysis: I analysed that it is necessary to identify the root cause of ethical challenges by an
organisation so that they are able to take right measures. I also analysed that senior
management team and employees are playing an important role in the process of maintaining
business standards.
Conclusion: I concluded that business ethics are necessary to follow as it helps in guiding and
directing to the organisation that they should act accordingly so that they can become an
ethical organisation.
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Action plan: I found that there are many difficulties which I found such as communication
skills, time management skills, critical thinking skills, etc. That’s why it is crucial to take a
right action with the help of an action plan.
What went well and why including using specific models.
Everything I found that went well during this module. I used Gibbs reflective model to share
my experience of this model. The reason behind this model is it provides a clear explanation to
every person. With the use of this model, anybody can easily understand the experience and
take new learnings.
What I need to do to improve and how I plan to do this:
I ned to work on critical thinking skills, time management skills and communication skills. For
that purpose, I took some following options which are mentioned below:
 I will take online communication classes in order to improve communication skills.
 For improving critical thinking skills, I need to work on my ideas which should be
creative.
 Time management skills improved with the help of making regular schedules.
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