Question

What are the characteristics and behavior of an ethical manager?
Explain, in your words, what ethics is.
Indicate what are the characteristics of an ethical manager.
Mention examples of ethical behaviors that a manager should show.

Answer 1

Ethics

The act of understanding and discriminating between the correct and wrong thing is known as ethics. It totally depends on the thinking and understanding of the person who is in that current position and according to the knowledge, he or she can identify the ethical and correct thing.

Now let us discuss the characteristics of an ethical manager

• An ethical leader is always on the side of justice he or she never supports his favorite person even though he is the best in his work. An ethical manager will never tolerate any unethical act from his employees and always support the right thing. For instance, If an employee comes up with an innovative idea that can be very beneficial for the organization but it will be harmful to the employees he will never accept that idea.
• An ethical manager always respects and considers the skills and knowledge of the employees. For instance, If manager is creating any work process which can be very beneficial for the organization. He or she will always respect its employees and ask for their valuable response and suggestions on the process before implementing it according to their skills and knowledge.
• An ethical manager always takes its team as a whole he or she never divides the team into well trained and skilled workers and on the other hand low skilled workers. For instance, an ethical manager will count his whole team as one which consists of all kinds and skilled persons and if any issue arises related to the skills of any employee the manager will ensure that he is also well trained to the level of the other team members to eliminate discrimination.