Ethics in the workplace

Running head : Fair trade

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Introduction

Ethics in all work places is a very important factor production . Ethics enables managers and indeed all the employees in an organization to make decisions that will result to overall good of everyone in the organization regardless the workers managerial level in the organization . Choices which are ethical may not necessarily be the ones that one feels like making , but they happen to be the right choices that will benefit virtually everyone in the organization and not

just a few employees while the majorities are affected negatively by such decisions . Thus the decision makers in an organization are compelled by ethics to think of how various people in their organizations will be affected by their decisions and only adopt and implement the decisions that are most likely affect most employees in the organization in a positive manner (Pike , n .d

The question of whether an organization acts ethically is a major factor for someone who is seeking employment as most employees will not be willing to work in a company that is unethical . Ethics is a very significant factor in employment and in fact , several studies have revealed that employees would rather work in firms that act ethically and be paid less rather than earn more in unethical companies . Employees fear the unethical firms and perceive them as organizations that are capable of oppressing them and thus they avoid them . Unethical organizations lack good reputation within the society and thus...