Ethical Issues in Management
Ethical Issues in Management
Ethical Issues in Management As a manager, being a role model is important to make fair and just decisions. Another key element in making the right decisions is instilling professionalism in self and in the organization. This study will show how becoming a role model as a manager is an attainable aspect by describing the current moral and ethical issues faced by most managers. The relationship between social issues and ethically responsible management is an additional practice in which managers must pursue. With the help of training, leadership, and certain fair practices, managers can be respected and looked up to by their peers and employees. Ethical and Social Issues (2008) explains, when describing business, ethics is defined as, the ability to reflect on key values along with a company’s decision-making process, to decide how values and decisions affect the stakeholder groups, and to ascertain how managers can use these teachings in everyday organizational operations. Ethical business leaders make every effort for fairness and justice within the boundaries of sound management practices. Using the process of ethical analysis, an individual will be given the ability to analyze a situation. With this process an individual can identify the stakeholders or employees, the decisions which can be reasonably taken, the consequences of the decision, and the facts. Additionally, the process allows an individual to define the dilemma or conflict, although, in most cases a dilemma possesses two opposed courses of action, which both burden meaningful values. According to Haynes (2001), they explain that another good way to promote ethics within an organization is to ensure each employee goes through the proper training. Most managers and supervisors can accept comfort in the thought that most actions taken by an employee can be considered ethical by the public as long as it follows the standards set forth:
Ethical Issues in Management As a manager, being a role model is important to make fair and just decisions. Another key element in making the right decisions is instilling professionalism in self and in the organization. This study will show how becoming a role model as a manager is an attainable aspect by describing the current moral and ethical issues faced by most managers. The relationship between social issues and ethically responsible management is an additional practice in which managers must pursue. With the help of training, leadership, and certain fair practices, managers can be respected and looked up to by their peers and employees. Ethical and Social Issues (2008) explains, when describing business, ethics is defined as, the ability to reflect on key values along with a company’s decision-making process, to decide how values and decisions affect the stakeholder groups, and to ascertain how managers can use these teachings in everyday organizational operations. Ethical business leaders make every effort for fairness and justice within the boundaries of sound management practices. Using the process of ethical analysis, an individual will be given the ability to analyze a situation. With this process an individual can identify the stakeholders or employees, the decisions which can be reasonably taken, the consequences of the decision, and the facts. Additionally, the process allows an individual to define the dilemma or conflict, although, in most cases a dilemma possesses two opposed courses of action, which both burden meaningful values. According to Haynes (2001), they explain that another good way to promote ethics within an organization is to ensure each employee goes through the proper training. Most managers and supervisors can accept comfort in the thought that most actions taken by an employee can be considered ethical by the public as long as it follows the standards set forth:
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