PERSONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL ETHICS

Personal and Organizational Ethics



Personal and Organizational Ethics

Introduction

Ethics has been a subject of study for thousands of years, and brilliant scholars have spent their lives exploring it. Ethics is concerned with the philosophical reflections on morality. Ethics is concerned with two basic questions. One is concerned with prescribing the content of morality. The other is concerned with giving reasons for morality. Both ethics and morality are concerned with how we position ourselves in relation to others. Ethics is linked to sustainability through the concern for others and subsequent considerations about how to organize relationships to the other. Sustainability is not the same as ethics and morality. Rather sustainability is a description of a particular ethical position amongst other positions, even if the position of sustainability is vaguely defined and disputed. This implies that organizations and professionals that claim to be ethical do not necessarily act in a sustainable way. At times, ethics may even seem as far removed from sustainability. By developing a storytelling ethics, we hope to bring ethics and sustainability closer together. Thesis statement

This paper discusses the ethics and ethical behavioral of an organization and it focuses on how the effective leadership could remove improve the organizational behaviour and ethical issues.

Ground Rules of Personal Ethics

The ground rules of my personal ethics are like many others in this world. You do not lie, cheat, or steal. These are the building blocks of any ethic or value system but life does not deal with absolutes. There will always be exceptions to the rules thus values will constantly evolve. Here within this valley of ethical ambiguity lay the true makings of personal ethics (Mitchell, 2007, 853 - 886).

Definition and Principles of Ethics

Organizational ethics includes both corporate and business ethics, or, put another way, both the corporate values and the financial practices of the organization. They relate to all aspects of the organization including mission, vision, governance, and leadership. Within health care, organizational ethics encompasses the professional and moral codes of the organization's conduct. In the case of other organizations, it may reflect the conduct toward employees, contractors, or members.

Personal vs. Organization Ethics

Most persons acquire those high ethical measures that need both organizations and persons to conform to sound lesson principles. However, special factors should be advised when applying ethics to enterprise organizations. First, to endure, enterprises must conspicuously make a profit. Second, enterprises should balance their desire for earnings against yearn of society. Maintaining this balance often needs compromises or tradeoffs. Unfortunately, the ethical standards learned at home, in school, through religion, and in the community are not always adequate preparation for ethical pressures found in the workplace.

Organizational practices and principles often conceive pressures, possibilities, and incentives that may sway workers to make unethical decisions (Kelly, 2009, 123-134).

Organization's Ethics

There are many ethical theories that can be looked at in this section of the study. Moral theory which represents, guiding principle is the great ideological foundation.

Deontology

Moral theory that we live in the most important ...