Ethics also means, then, the continuous effort of studying our own moral beliefs and our moral conduct, and striving to ensure that we, and the institutions we help to shape, live up to standards that are reasonable and solidly-based….
The students of Ethics Management should study their own moral beliefs and their moral conduct so they can help build their companies or the institutions they serve on the ethical foundations that are reasonable and solidly-based. Ethics Management Vs law of nature and morality Keeping in mind the two cardinal definitions given by the said University, let us understand the concept of Ethics Management as a managerial function to regulate the conduct or behavior of the employees from top to bottom through written code or unwritten code.
When we apply ethics to professions like lawyer, doctor, architect, scientist, journalist, etc. Professionals are supposed to exhibit the highest degree of ethics in their professions. Many professional bodies like Bar Associations, Medical Associations, etc. Apart from the code of ethics, they have to subject themselves to certain self regulations wherever there are grey areas in the code of ethics of these professional bodies. Such self-regulations come under the purview of Ethics Profession.
I will discuss Professional Ethics under separate topics. A company cannot function ethically in an anarchic country where its law permits human rights violations.
For instance in Somalia, pirates are ruling the roost in the absence of an effective central government since A company cannot function in the lawless society of Somalia ethically. No investor would dare to invest in Somalia. The law of nature overrides the law of morals. Gay and lesbian marriages are sought to be legalized by law and such marriages get legalized through law with the result that such legal marriages get the coating of morality.
What is lawful becomes moral but not ethical. A national government or a company extends social benefits to the spouses of their employees or the dependent members of their families. Values and ethics in a society flow from the law of nature.
What is lawful is not ethical. Ethics functions in a realm higher than law. For instance, you are occupying the seat meant for you in the Metro Rail and not sitting on a seat reserved for ladies or elders. Suppose, an elder or a lady stands near your seat. Legally speaking, you are not supposed to give your seat to the standing elder or the lady.
But ethically speaking, you should offer your seat to the elder or the lady. In Ireland, Savita Halappanvar, a pregnant woman of Indian origin died after her repeated requests for abortion were refused when she was suffering a miscarriage and when she developed back pain and tests revealed that she would lose her baby on the ground that abortion was considered illegal and criminal by the Irish Government which professed the Catholic faith against abortions.
The surgeons who refused to perform the abortion to save the precious life of Savita had obeyed the law of the land. The law of nature which overrides the law demands that surgeons had performed the abortion to save the life of the mother. Behavior of employer Ethics Management, apart from the employee behavior, also studies the behavior of the employer in given circumstances.
This subject is becoming all the more important in view of the scams breaking out in the systems of public administration and corporate governance. What is ethical in HR Management through its selection procedures becomes unethical in Ethics Management. For example, in its HR policy, there may be a provision for employing the wards of employees against some quota after following a competitive selection procedure also open for the public candidates from the open market.
When the HR Manager appoints the wards of employees after rejecting meritorious candidates who have excelled the wards of employees in the open selection process, taking recourse to the HR policy, it would be unethical.
Ethics Management Vs Business Ethics Business Ethics is a set of rules and procedures for conducting business in an ethical manner. It is a part of Ethics Management. However, the scope of Ethics Management as a managerial function is unlimited. Ethics Management is a study of human behavior in business transactions behavior whereas business ethics revolves on the code of conduct in business environment.
Ethics Management, a higher managerial function When HR Management in the Corporate world or the public administration in government functions within the framework of the code of conduct, Ethics Management functions in a higher realm of ethical standards that include standards relating to rights, such as the right to life, the right to freedom from injury, and the right to privacy.
When HR Management or Public Administration does not give importance to the cultural issues of the society, Ethics Management guides the top management or the top government functionaries to work in a cultural or multicultural environment. Of course, his moral character may be disguised in the public place due to fear of the rule of law.
An employee addicted to vices like gambling or drugs will manifest his immoral character at the work place wherein he spends more of his life time, whereas in the public place wherein he spends less of his life time, he may not manifest his real character, being afraid of the policeman.
Ethics Management has to deal with the inner character of the employee and to reform him. While the top functionaries may attempt to get rid of the prodigal son who is either immoral or inefficient, Ethics Management may attempt to transform the prodigal son into a loyal and efficient employee through its ethical programs. When the company management or the government encourages only the efficient employees through various incentives, Ethics Management becomes a tool to encourage the inefficient employees for higher performance and productivity and brings them into the mainstream of the organization, integrating them with the other efficient employees.
Definition of Ethics Management Ethics Management studies the behavior of employees and of the employers in business transactions of the Corporate world and in public administration of Government and lays down the requisite guidelines for corporate governance or governance in public administration, as the case may be.
Ethics Management is a managerial tool or function to bring about corporate governance or governance in public administration. Professional Ethics studies the behavior of professionals and lays down the requisite guidelines for regulating their conduct.
The behavioral study covers acts both in the real world and in the cyber world. An employee living in the real world behaves indifferently in the cyber world. While sending emails to his superior, he uses unethical language whereas in the real world he is quite polite to his superior. Many company employees disguise themselves in the social net working sites of the cyber world and criticize their company policies or their company bosses.
But in the real world, they have different faces. Exercises: i A company situated in St Francisco prescribes a dress code for all their staff including female employees. There are some Muslim women employees. They are supposed to wear the dress code. If they have to wear the uniform, then they have to remove their veils and put the same in the dressing room.
The company has introduced this dress code from the level of their CEO to the level of a working employee to treat all of them as equal and to earn a brand name for their products. Whether the decision of the management to insist on their Muslim employees to wear the uniform is ethical or not? The dictator invites foreign investors in invest in his nation. Many MNCs are granted licenses to start their businesses.
To improve the staggering economy, the dictator orders all these companies to maximize their production capacity and to engage even students studying in high schools and colleges. You have to comply with the law of the land for engaging the students in your company. How will you apply follow ethics while engaging the students in your company? Just prepare an action plan for engaging the students in your company. Ethically, you have to take care of the education of the student community.
His performance level has gone down after assessment of his work. If business ethics is to remain relevant, it must change its focus accordingly. Today, more than companies in 60 countries have published sustainability report proclaiming their active support for the environment, their employees and their local community. The study is confined to business ethics in general and ethics in management in particular.
It analyses and finds the conceptual frame work of business ethics and its relevance in Management. The study is also focuses on the principles, importance and structural aspects of ethics in Management.
Ethical codes have been prepared work closely in the legislators to raise the family income. By the s, it was along with the development of human civilization. In olden days, people might transformed into 'A Fair Deal. The question what rights and ethical issues regarding environmental responsibility. The word 'Eth- ics' is derived from Greek word 'Ethikos' and Latin word 'Ethicus' means, custom By the , the social and political movements brought forth major changes in or character.
In , four basic consumer rights to help pro- tect the public i. These eventually became known as the Consumer Bill humans ought to do and it also refers to the study the development of one's ethical of Rights and had a huge impact on the evolution of business ethics.
Business Ethics is the application of general ethical ideas to business behavior In s, the issue of Business ethics continued to evolve and as a result, began to which facilitates and promotes good to society, improves profitability, fosters emerge as a new field of study. During this period, a set of moral values that were business relations and employee productivity.
Business Ethics is concerned with the behavior of a businessman in doing a busi- ness. Unethical practices are creating problems to businessman and business In s, incidents like bribery, illegal contract practices, influential peddling, units.
The life and growth of a business unit depends upon the ethics practiced by deceptive advertising and financial fraud shaped the development of business eth- a businessman. Business ethics is applicable to every type of business. A busi- ics. Some initiative steps have been adopted by many of today's organizations ness man should not ignore the business ethics while assuming social responsi- for their success, like code of conduct, ethical training to employees, an open bility.
Business ethics means the behavior of a businessman while conducting a atmosphere for employees to report violation without fear for retribution, inclu- business by observing morality in his business activities. The organization's selection process interviews, tests, back- them.
They are influenced by a group of forces that surrounded them such as ground checks, references etc. Codes of ethics are an increasingly popular way for reducing ambi- pany values and policies and the manner of their implementation. These are formal documents, expressed in language anyone can under- stand, that state an organization's primary values and the ethical rules and princi- Ethical behavior can be developed and managed in number of ways.
The pivotal ples it expects its employees to follow. Codes of ethics are probably the most visi- role to manage and develop ethical behavior among employees lies with the ble sign of a company's ethical philosophy. Human Resource Manage- ment department can execute this through training, communication and disci- There must be a high degree of commitment to business ethics from top manage- pline.
The big organizations which are ethically committed, assign the primary ment. Managers must embrace ethics and continually reaffirm their support for task of managing and monitoring their organizations, there may be ethics officers ethical conduct.
The employees will believe that unethical behaviors are toler- who are entrusted with the responsibility to bring ethics and manage ethics in ated in their organizations and may therefore act less ethically than they other- every endeavour of their organization. Goals which are impossible to attain can be con- PAST: There were many events that occurred to impact change in business phi- ducive to unethical behavior. Those, who fail to achieve a pre-set goal by a small losophies and reporting practices.
During s, the concept of capitalism margin, are likely to falsify their performance reports in order to make it seen played an integral part in the evolution of business ethics. For instance, a pro- that, they had achieved their goals even when there was no monetary reward for gressive movement provided citizens with what was defined as 'The Living achieving the goal.
The influ- reation, health and retirement. This open-access article is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4. If businessman hurts the interests and rights of the society and exploits the consumer by overlooking their interests this is equivalent to violence and FUTURE: The term 'Business ethics' have become firmly entrenched and an unethical act.
Many universities ment. But, looking to 1. Application of business ethics helps to avoid many evils from the society. It the future, it is easy to see that, there is still much to be done. Globalization, the includes child labour, harassment of employees, unscrupulous price fixing, march into the information age, and workforce diversity are changing the way poverty and starvation of employees etc.
Today, more than 2. Ethical programme helps to tune employee behavior in accordance with the companies in 60 countries have published sustainability report proclaiming their values preferred by leaders of the organization.
Ethics corresponds to human needs. Ethics programme help employees to face reality both good and bad in the 2. Business ethics creates credibility with the public. They feel full confidence to admit and deal with whatever comes in their way. Business ethics creates social responsibility. Ethical programmes help to ensure that policies are legal. Ethical principles 4. Business ethics improves and strengthens organizational culture.
Business ethics helps better decision making. Ethical programmes help to detect issues and violations early so that they can be reported or addressed which helps to avoid subsequent penal actions 6. Business ethics improves profit. Business ethics builds strong teamwork and greater productivity. Ethical programme identify favourite values and ensure organizational behaviours which are associated with those values.
This complex effort can 8. Business ethics promotes better employer-employee relationship. Business ethics minimizes criminal and legal complications. Business ethics encourages healthy competition. The service sector also called 'Tertiary Sector', 1. Business Ethics are the principles, which govern and guide the business peo- and is the third of the three economic sectors.
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