The Mistakes That Managers May Do That Negatively Affect Employees ' Ethical Decisions

Employees need to know that their ethical or unethical choices will have a direct impact on the success or failure of the company.

Past research has discovered that managers react to ethical dilemmas according to the situation. If specific values that are related to ethical behavior can be identified, they would offer strong tools for managers who want to retain high standards of ethical behavior in their society.

Ethical issues for dealing with individual employees is difficult because managers on the front line are responsible for various accounts such as hiring and firing disciplining and

In difficult financial times, companies face various moral issues to try to keep up with their competitors. Although these issues have a direct impact on employee decision making, businesses rarely address how employees should assess the ethics of their actions and incorporate ethics into their decisions. Often this can be alleviated by creating and maintaining a corporate culture with a focus on

The key takeaways from this article range from decision making models to ensuring that employers make an ethical decision. An ethical decision model is a great tool to use when faced with a tough decision to make (Inggs & Christensen, 2015). In order to ensure that a manager has made an ethical decision, he or she should consider everyone else around him or her that their decision could obtain an effect on. As a manager, it is important to utilize every tool necessary to make a decision. It is more important to stray away from the garbage can model which displays that decision making is sloppy and desultory (Kreitner & Kinicki, 2013). Also, it is important to know which biases are showing up in the decision-making process.

Sometimes, in an effort to protect their jobs, further their careers or meet unrealistic objectives some managers may also experience ethical issues such as corruption (accepting bribes, abusing their power for financial gain), advertising (desire to oversell a product), sourcing raw materials (do they conduct business with a supplier who isn’t treating their staff fairly or whose methods are damaging to the environment), privacy (should the company record telephone conversations, access private emails and web sites that staff visit), safety (is the work environment safe or hazardous to the staff and community), salary (is the staff being paid fairly, in line with their job descriptions), communication (is information on a need to know basis, when a public announcement is made does the staff know first or last), and pricing (is product pricing set

The issue of ethical behaviour has dominated the political and business landscape over the past decades. The unethical behaviour in the workplace originates from a lack of actions when ethical lapses occur in social media, TV news, and viral videos. The article “Creating an Ethical Culture” seeks to recommend a solution to employee’s unethical behavior and unethical decision making. Since culture provides insights into employees’ behavior, beliefs, and values in the workplace, understanding the relationship between cultural values and employees’ ethical behaviour may offer a roadmap to fostering a strong ethical culture.

“The man of integrity walks securely, but he who takes crooked paths will be found out” (Proverbs 10:9, NIV 1984). It has been my experience that I fall into both categories. I define integrity as doing the right things for the right reasons even when no one is looking. In The Six Traits of Ethical Employees, it is identified that an employee that “values integrity not only possess a strong code of ethics, they are willing to stand by their principles. (2017, p.4)”

The first thing I find difficult to practice is that sometimes, an action appears to be an unethical conduct may not be one. It needs a lot of information and time to really judge an unethical conduct. In order for make right judgement on an ethical situation, a person needs gather as much as information from the persons who directly involved in the situations and filtering all the information to make the final decision. I do not think a manager or higher positional personal has enough time to find out information from persons who involved in the

A relativist would agree with how the situation was handled. The owner did not say who was wrong or right. His solution was to simply extend an offer to continue working for him with the option of transferring to another store he owned with no consequences given to the manager. There did not seem to be interested in the concept of right or wrong and was more concerned with being impartial and show respect for both of our points of views. He just wanted to forget the situation and move forward. This response bothered me at the time, but now I have a better understanding of the philosophy that was controlling the thought process of this situation. I am not in agreement with the logic that coincides with relativism, but the neutrality is comforting because the thought process does not look where to cast blame but instead it searches for a solution.

The following section presents a discussion of leaders’ ethical behavior presented in each of the studies considered within this synthesis. As employees spend a significant amount of time working with their supervisors, they both develop a strong relationship, as well as, the supervisors have a direct impact on employees’ day-to-day work performance. The effect of leaderships’ behavior can impact the performance and commitment of employees as discussed in all three articles. Kottke and Pelletier (2013) reported employees recognize that top leaderships or immediate supervisors are the one who create the work climate and control ethics policies. Employees’ perception of work climate is as in seeing supervisor setting a good example of ethical

The workplace is a microcosm of society as a whole. Therefore, one has to anticipate that one will encounter legal and ethical issues in the workplace, just as one encounters legal and ethical issues in the world in general. Of course, not all of these problems will be significant, while others will be significant. The difficulty for the employee is determining what ethical and legal issues are critical, which ones are less important, and how those interact with a person's own personal ethics. What is interesting is that seemingly insignificant ethical issues can actually have a tremendous impact on the workplace, because they can set the tone for the way that the office functions.

In a professional work environment, managers are expected to bring high ethical standards to their decisions (Bommer, 1987). As a result, personal values may be disregarded and the more socially accepted decision may be the determining factor of the decision to be made. This concept mirrors the dilemma of Jim Willis.

Organizations are always being faced with ethical dilemmas and situations that affect their decision-making. For businesses to be successful, they need to be able to resolve ethical issues that may arise in the workplace. Resolving ethical issues within an organization takes time, communication, and implementation. Managers have to communicate to other employees what is expected of them of how they should react in an ethical situation. When managers make decisions regarding ethical behavior they cannot simply make a decision and leave it alone. Managers need to be the leading force behind implementing such decisions. Ethical issues can destroy an organization if they are not attacked with a

In recent years, unethical decision in the workplace has caused varieties of problems and unnecessary cost in managing organizations. Therefore, it has become a serious issue in society and attracted the public attention. Individual characteristics, issue characteristics and organizational environment are the factors that can influence employees’ unethical decisions at work. In this article, the aim is to explain why unethical decisions result from individuals’ choice rather than work environment, and how an individual’s choice decides unethical behaviors.