Professional Ethics Review
Professional Ethical Review
Introduction
Managers have several dilemmas they face with moral and ethical issues. All of them have plenty of distractions in their professional life, but trying to weed out distractions and focus on the core of their style and beliefs can be trying when pressed into difficult situations. Some of the internal issues that managers face as a role model are things like workplace conduct, decision making, safety, and organizations code of ethics, conflict of interest situations, having integrity, good morals and ethical beliefs as well as acting appropriately through all of these issues. Managers have a huge responsibility not only to the organization, but to all the individuals that make up an organization, including its customers.
Moral and Ethical Guides Management can be compared to parenting a child in many ways, for example, children learn from what they see their parents doing or saying. A parent can tell a child not to use bad language, but if the child is exposed to bad language through the parents then it is most likely the child will continue speaking in the same fashion. Any employees/workers in an organization will take their cue from how management makes decisions, reacts to situations, or just in general everyday behaviors. The relationship between social issues and ethically responsible management practices are that they have an enormous responsibility to set the standards for the organization and its employees. On social issues managers have contractual obligations to abide by through suppliers or consumers for instance. (Velasquez, 2006) Values, which guide how we ought to behave, are considered moral values, e.g., values such as respect, honesty, fairness, responsibility, etc. Statements around how these values are applied are sometimes called moral or ethical principles. Various managers are going to have different styles and beliefs based upon educational level, experience, mentors,
Introduction
Managers have several dilemmas they face with moral and ethical issues. All of them have plenty of distractions in their professional life, but trying to weed out distractions and focus on the core of their style and beliefs can be trying when pressed into difficult situations. Some of the internal issues that managers face as a role model are things like workplace conduct, decision making, safety, and organizations code of ethics, conflict of interest situations, having integrity, good morals and ethical beliefs as well as acting appropriately through all of these issues. Managers have a huge responsibility not only to the organization, but to all the individuals that make up an organization, including its customers.
Moral and Ethical Guides Management can be compared to parenting a child in many ways, for example, children learn from what they see their parents doing or saying. A parent can tell a child not to use bad language, but if the child is exposed to bad language through the parents then it is most likely the child will continue speaking in the same fashion. Any employees/workers in an organization will take their cue from how management makes decisions, reacts to situations, or just in general everyday behaviors. The relationship between social issues and ethically responsible management practices are that they have an enormous responsibility to set the standards for the organization and its employees. On social issues managers have contractual obligations to abide by through suppliers or consumers for instance. (Velasquez, 2006) Values, which guide how we ought to behave, are considered moral values, e.g., values such as respect, honesty, fairness, responsibility, etc. Statements around how these values are applied are sometimes called moral or ethical principles. Various managers are going to have different styles and beliefs based upon educational level, experience, mentors,
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