business ethics

Title : Making an Organization more Ethical

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Making an Organization more Ethical

Introduction

Ethics is a term that means a standard of behaviour humans have to demonstrate whilst dealing with others or in certain situations Ethical principles can also be considered as to the manner in which values have to be applied and how an individual or organisation needs to behave with others . These may include playing the role of employee employer , service-provider , customer , citizen , teacher , professional

etc . Philosophers consider ethics to deal with conduct with other people , and hence they would be very important for the functioning of the organisation (Velasquez , 1988

Since ancient civilisations , ethical aspects formed a very important part . With time these translated into legal issues . Ethics is not the same as personal emotions , religion , scientific , legal issues or social issues . Some individuals may be sad when they do something wrong whereas others may be happy . Personal emotions and feeling may not always result in ethical decisions . Religion on the other hand can sensitize a person towards becoming ethically more conscious . However certain people who are not all that religious may in fact be very ethical in their decision-making . Law can help and support maintenance of ethical standards . Law may however be very difficult to bring about ethical changes . Certain societies in the world may favour higher ethical standards , whereas others may favour corrupt practises in businesses . With time also , the ethical standards may change in society...