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Importance Of Ehtical Management In Orginisations Introduction This report aims to provide a critical evaluation of the importance of using an ethical approach to
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Introduction
This report aims to provide a critical evaluation of the importance of using an ethical approach to managing the behaviour in organisations. By the behaviour in organisations, the report logically assumes that this is the behaviour of the organisation as a whole and the individuals involved in the organisation. This report will define ethics from a number of sources and draws on a logical definition from all the sources. This concept of ethics will then be examined from an individual and a corporate perspective and the impact of each perspective has on the managing behaviour in contemporary organisations. From this analysis, a conclusion will be drawn, and an evaluation of the necessity of ethics in organisational behaviour will be deduced.
Definition of Ethics
Ethics is possibly one of the hardest words to define because of the how diverse it is. Every person and corporation in the industry will have a different ethical code. Some ethics are taught during our child days and some are dictated to us where we work. Ethics can also be described as a person¡¦s morals, what they believe to be right or wrong. ¡§Ethics involves the study of moral issues and choices.¡¨ (Kreitner &Kinicki, 2004, p.34). A second definition is further gathered from Dubrin, Dalglish and Miller (2006, P. 128) where Velasquez (1998) stated that there are five characteristics that distinguish between ethical standards and other standards:
« Moral standards deal with issues that we think can seriously injure or benefit human beings
« Moral standards are not established or changed by decisions of a particular authoritative body
« We feel moral standards should be preferred to other values. Including self interest
« Moral standards are based on impartial considerations
« Moral standards are associated with special emotions and a special vocabulary (e.g. guilt, shame,...
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