Question

Business ethics means many different things to different people. If you are a manager with many new hires who do not have a business degree and have never studied what you have studied, how would you explain ‘business ethics in the workplace’ to these employees?If you must focus on two main points, what two points would you want these employees to understand and practice in their behavior at work?

Answer 1

Answer - If I'm the manager with many new hires who don't know about business ethics I would explain them in the given way .

I would explain to my new hires that business ethics are the code of conduct that every businesses should follow . Business ethics are the moral principles that guide the way a business behaves . Business ethics help in distinguishing between what is right and wrong for an organisation . For example - Business ethics helps us know that companies should not use child labour . And that companies should not use copyrighted materials .

Following are the two points that I would want my employees to understand and practice in their behaviour at workplace -

1) Employees should be driven by the service motive - I would explain my employees the importance of service motive while working . I would tell them to give more importance to service and customer satisfaction and less importance to only profit maximization . The employees should be told to make profits by providing good services to consumers and not by exploiting the consumers . Thier motive should be 'service first , profit next '. The employees should be self motivated and not externally motivated to do these things .

2) Employees should have a sense of honesty and integrity - The employees should be honest and truthful and must not decieve others by mispresentation and partial truths etc. They should be courageous enough to do what they think is right even if they have great pressure to do wrong , they should be principled , honest and honorable etc.