ETHICAL POLICIES AND PRACTICE

The Role of Manager in an Organisation's Ethical Policies and Practice

The Role of Manager in an Organisation's Ethical Policies and Practice

Introduction

Business ethics is a branch of applied ethics. It deals with the study of the moral nature policy issues raised in the business world: business management, organization of a corporation, the conduct in the market, business decisions, and so on. Business ethics is distinguished by a side business or economic sciences purely descriptive (not normative claims), such as econometrics or economic history. The reason is that all the sciences and normative claims are to confront at some point in their recent regulatory provisions, and that confrontation may have common elements, areas of intersection between politics, morality, economics, law, etc...

The role of any manager is to meet a number of roles, each of which is critical for efficient management. These roles can be divided into three main categories: interpersonal, communication and decision-making. Will oppose the widening of dysfunctional conflict that the chief, who, though a party of confrontation, but is willing and able to find common points of interest interpersonal, and inter group convergence positions.

Discussion

It is primarily for managers to publicize the document of ethical policies, if it does not contain the statement of values and vision of the organization, agrees that a letter from the president or CEO to accompany the document to be distributed. It is useful for corporate adoption of the code is marked with a solemn ceremony, involving all members of the organization, signing a document such as adhesion, or orally, pronouncing their commitment expressed in a social event.

Once the ethical policies are known to members of the organization (and if necessary also by external agents) should be integrated into the training plans of the company. One can offer to members of the general ethics training organization or business ethics, or can be offered specific training in relation to the code adopted, focusing on the dissemination, interpretation and implementation of the code in each section or department of the organization. Manuals and training courses should include both the ethical policies and minimal explanations for new members to recognize the organization's commitment to these standards and the importance of meeting the expectations of others, and society, deposited in people who represent the organization.

Known and implemented the code, the address must show their commitment to the values and standards contained therein. This commitment must fight two suspected pernicious:

That all political ethics is a mere image operation.

That is an initiative well intentioned, but useless or inapplicable in tough everyday business life.

It corresponds to the direction to make the policies a pattern of valid action. This may help certain institutional resources: appoint an "ombudsman", a "responsible ethical compliance" establish and empower an "ethics committee" to ensure a complaints hotline and complaints related to code violations ethics, etc... The management has to transmit the ethical policies certainly is not a piece of rhetoric, but a part of the functioning of the organization, and that membership of the strategy involves being bound by it and demonstrate the behaviours of each ...