...Ethical Issues In Management Ethical Issues in Management Jaceson Bradford MGT 216 May 3, 2010 Bill Link Introduction In today’s workplace it is important to understand how making an accurate hiring decision can affect the organization. With jobs becoming increasingly difficult to arrive at because of the economy, applicants for employment are willing to misrepresent their credentials in the application process. Managers are faced with ethical and legal aspects of hiring along with social issues that make ethically responsible management practices increasingly important. This paper will provide information about ethical and legal aspects associated with hiring and provide moral and ethical issues faced by managers. This paper will also describe the relationship between social issues and ethically responsible practices that relate to hiring. Moral and Ethical Issues Many people don’t understand the cost related to making a poor hiring decision. From productivity, customer service, and liability prospective have been widely studied and has been estimated to be three times the annual salary of the individual involved (Calvasina, Calvasina, & Calvasina 2008). Therefore, it is important for managers to make their decisions of an applicant based on skills as well as moral and ethical values. It is very difficult at times for managers because their responsibilities include not only hiring, but also promotion, conduct of employees, and motivation. But it is even more...
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...Ethical Issues in Management Charles Hall Axia Student Diversity in the workplace refers to the stark contrast of individuals within the same work environment. Many moral and ethical issues are faced by managers every day concerning diversity. Social Issues and ethically responsible management practices relate to workplace diversity in simple but important ways. Ethically it is irresponsible for managers to manage diversity in the workplace by acting insensitively towards employees. There are many ways that managers can avoid ethical issues concerning diversity in the workplace, but first they must understand the moral and ethical issues that they are faced with. Fifty years ago it was not uncommon to see any workplace filled with nothing but white adult males (Jr., 1990). Today that has changed. Walking into most workplaces will expose a person to an environment of diversity. This environment poses challenges to management that were not even a concern to doing business a generation ago. Programs like Affirmative Action have mandated that organizations heed government set quotas of employing minorities in their workplace (Jr., 1990). This has resulted in a complex new environment for managers where the bottom line is no longer the bottom line. Ethics are now the bottom line in a work environment where diversity plays a major role. Managers need to be in tune with their subordinates’ ethnicity, race, and background. Due to the political correctness (PC) movement of the 1980s...
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...Ethical Issues and Management Student’s name Date XMGT/216 Teacher’s name “Managers perform a crucial role in organizations because they interpret company policy, execute corporate directives, fulfill all of the people management needs in their particular area of responsibility, cascade senior management messages down the chain of command, and communicate employee feedback up the chain. They are probably the most important ingredient in an organization’s success and they are frequently the most overlooked. But make no mistake about it—managers are the lens through which employees view the company, as well as the filter through which senior executives view employees.” (Trevino & Nelson, 2007) Managers are faced with many ethical issues related to hiring, performance evaluations, discipline, termination, diversity, and harassment. The topic I will concentrate on in this paper is Discipline. I will describe the moral and ethical issues faced by managers when dealing with disciplining employees, examine how the issue affects other individuals, explain how the relationship between social issues and ethically responsible management practices apply to my topic, and provide a workplace example of an ethical dilemma involving discipline at the workplace. ” Most managers view disciplining employees as something to be postponed for as long as possible. Many people in a work environment try to ignore a worker’s shortcomings in the hope that the situation will improve. Discipline...
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...Ethical Issues in Management Oscar Puente MGT 216 Organizational Ethics and Social Responsibility August, 30 2010 Kenna Fowler Ethical Issues in Management The complexity of work ethics sometimes is more complicated than expected, the expectations from employees and the conflicts of interest in many cases creates hostile environment and causes irregularities between employees and their piers; the fundamental of social work is attention to the environmental forces, which creates and contributes problems in the living. Social workers can be affected to sensitive in cultural and ethnic diversity. Given the economy of this country the climate and number of Jobs people loses in a daily basis, most citizens are feeling the pressure to work harder. However, in spite of the increasing intensity of the economy crisis, it is not unfortunate to give up in to such pressure, the ethical dilemma of working Americans. The most valuable commodity people have is time and professionalism in their personal life. To employees in general it is known to be wrong spending too much time working in one project with the expense of other equally and critical tasks. The same is for managers taking too long managing one employee and unable to manage others. The most important thing to know is that ethics is not just to know how managers treat others but to learn management in their own selves; it isn’t fair to anyone else or yourself if you have not taking time off from work. You're also not...
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...Ethical Issues in Management The tasks of a supervisor go far beyond management. In fact, supervisors have to make vital decisions all the time that affect their employees, and possibly the business depending on the situation. Managers take part in hiring, performance, evaluation, discipline, and termination. They are also involved in any circumstance that pertains to harassment and diversity, and they must make a conscious effort to set a good example for their employees. The following paper will focus primarily on termination; describe the moral and ethical issues faced by managers dealing with termination; explain how relationships between social issues and ethically responsible management practices apply to termination; provide a workplace example of an ethical dilemma involving termination. Termination In the case of termination, performance evaluations, verbal and written warnings can be moral issues as they all entail truthfulness, evenhandedness, and the self-respect of the individual. Managers play a critical role in increasing engagement and building an ethical way of life for the most part sensible issues of company ethics. We need not determine all the rational disputes involving the utilitarian’s and the deontologists. Regardless of the different approaches, in the bulk of situations both techniques, if cautiously, delicately, and carefully applied, will generate the same ethical conclusion with respect to the values of the method...
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...Ethical Issues and Management Delano Taylor XGMT/216 3/29/2015 Steven Goldman Managers are much more then supervisors or a role model, they are leaders whom their employees or teams look forward to guidance and leadership. This paper will focus on the role of the manager figures. In their everyday operations, managers are faced with many ethical and moral decisions meant to move the organization forward. This means in making important decisions for the organizations, managers are likely to be faced with many challenges. These decisions are meant to move the company forward and can affect the company as well as employees and customers. When making these decisions managers usually think about the various outcomes and how everyone associated with these decisions will be affected. I have been through some ethical decision making as a manager for the company that I work for, making some decisions are difficult because you know that the outcome will change someone’s livelihood and will affect them maybe even mentally. I truly believe that when a manager or a supervisor are placed in these positions they should go through various training and ethical testing process. When an employee or a lower level employee sees a manager doing something unethical in the workplace they will lose all respect for that individual, so a manager needs to carry themselves with honor and humility so that others will notice and will trust them to make decisions. When looking over society...
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...Ethical Issues in Management Juanita Bell University of Phoenix Ethical Issues in Management What is business ethics? According to wiseGEEK (2003-2010), business ethics “Is the behavior that a business adheres to in its daily dealings with the world.” (What is Business Ethics? para.1). The ethics of a organization may be discrete, however ethics do not just apply to how the business communicates with the world, but also includes the business’ one-on-one relations with individual clients and employee’s. There are many ethical issues involved in management. Diversity has become a major issue in the management world. Workplace diversity refers to the extent of cultural diversity within a company. “Diversity is generally defined as acknowledging, understanding, accepting, valuing, and celebrating differences among people with respect to age, class, ethnicity, gender, physical and mental ability, race, sexual orientation, spiritual practice, and public assistance status (K.A. Green, M. López, A. Wysocki, & K. Kepner, 2008)”. Diversity in business allows a business to better understand the demographics of its marketplace. Many advertise themselves as “Equal Opportunity Employers”, meaning they maintain a diverse workplace and will not discriminate. Though many ethical issues can be found with in the workplace, the most common is discrimination. Discrimination is one of the main issues currently stopping diversity. “Discrimination occurs whenever something other than qualifications...
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...Performance Evaluations Many different moral and ethical issues come up in management positions. Issues come up everyday some are small and take no time to address and others are more difficult and may take hours or days to work through. One important area that ethics play a crucial roll in is employee performance evaluations. Performance evaluations are an opportunity for an employee can find out how well or not so well he or she is doing. Managers in turn have the opportunity to inform an employee about areas they do well and also provide feedback and suggestions on areas that he or she can do better. “Employee performance evaluation provides legal, ethical, and visible evidence that employees were actively involved in understanding the requirements of their jobs and their performance” (Heathfield, 2009). This method of communication and documentation ensures that the employee and manager understand the required expectations. Managers and employees alike look at performance evaluations as one of the most disliked tasks. Social Issues Many social issues may need to be dealt with during the writing and presentation phases of employee performance evaluations. Managers have the responsibility to treat all employees fairly and must provide truthful information when conducting performance evaluations. One of the main issues that a manager needs to deal with is their personal relationship with his or her employees. This relationship can influence the evaluation and can cause unfair...
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...| Ethical Issues and Management Paper | | Demarcus Boyd | University of Phoenix | 1/16/2011 | | In today’s business environment, the management team helps a company succeed. Managers are responsible for many tasks such as: making sure their employees are doing the job properly and on time; making certain that expectations and goals are clear and being met; making sure that the employee’s needs are being met; making sure that the employees are following company policies and procedures. One main role of a manager is being a good role model to his or her employees. “A role model is a person who serves as a model in a particular behavioral or social role for another person to emulate” (Role Model, 2009). This statement means that a manager as a role model needs to lead by example. In this paper, we will discuss moral and ethical dilemmas managers face as a role model and the relationship between ethical responsibility and social issues. “Managers are probably the most important ingredient in an organization’s success and they are often overlooked” (Trevino, & Nelson, 2007). Trevino and Nelson also stated that “managers are the lens through which employees view the company, as well as the filter through which senior executives view employees.”(Trevino & Nelson, 2007). This can put a lot of stress and pressure on a manager. Managers must realize that what they say is not as important as what they do. They can talk all they want about different ethics...
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...Issues in Management Ethical and Legal Issues in Management MGT/216 May 10, 2010 Brent Boardman As a manager there are many ethical and legal issues that a person may have to deal with. One of the biggest is termination. If not done properly, this can cause law suits for wrongful termination, regardless of the reasons behind it. When working in a position of management it is very important to understand what an employee can be terminated for. It is against the law to terminate an employee for such things as discrimination of race, sex, age, orientation, or whistle blowing. For an employee with disciplinary problems, the manager will want to document every issue that they may have with an employee, although according to Barry Gross from All business (2010), documentation is not a requirement for termination, it is suggested that this be done so that if it ever comes down to having to terminate that employee, there would be documentation stating that the particular employee has had prior discipline problems. Also, when terminating an employee, it should be done in private, and respectfully, though the manager may want to have a second manager in the room for their own protection, so that it cannot be said that the employee was disrespected in front of their peers. If there is no documentation to prove that the employee has had disciplinary problems before, the employee may be able to sue the company for wrongful termination, and win. Another legal issue would be having...
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...Ethical Issues and Management Richard Weatherly ETHICAL ISSUES AND MANAGEMENT Deciding to terminate an employee is probably the last resort an employer should adopt, and is a very crucial point in the employer-employee relationship, and can at times get tricky. Although I haven’t personally experienced this from either end, I have heard many first-hand accounts of the same from my husband who has developed a mocking reputation of firing people. Not that he looks for reasons to do this, but he’s very passionate about his job, and if he sees someone not doing their part after being given repeated chances to do so he doesn’t hesitate in pulling the plug. He wants people who are willing to give their best around him, and is loved and respected greatly by like-minded employees. Terminating employment is no laughing matter, and is in fact a very delicate situation that needs to be handled in the right manner. Every person thinks differently and that could be a disadvantage that could lead to a termination. It is important that both parties try to be on the same page in respect to aligning their thinking with that of the company they work for. Since it is a direct person-to-person relationship in most cases, the task of letting someone go may be difficult at times because it is not only a professional relationship ending, but also a personal blow. This is probably the reason why some people do not take it well, and become hostile or violent when the news is delivered to them. Moral...
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...Ethical Issues in Business Management Performance Evaluation Professionals like to be evaluated, to compete, to know how they have excelled against their peers. They want to be evaluated objectively and by people at the top of their field. Hence, heavy internal competition and frequent performance evaluation and feedback are common in outstanding organizations. But performance evaluation is one of the most difficult activities managers of professionals have to do. Performance evaluation is, as suggested by DeVries (1986): A process by which an organization measures and evaluates and individual employee’s behavior and accomplishments for a finite time period. Evaluations are typically done annually by the employee’s immediate manager. The judgments are often subsequently used to make administrative decisions (e.g., for salary or promotion) that directly affect the employee. This is a very simple definition and one that any professional employee will be very familiar with. In theory is that simple; in practical terms is a very difficult one when trying to measure performance of professional employees. Measuring can be very direct in some cases, but measuring individual’s behavior, which is a critical aspect in professional employees, can be very subjective. Sometimes there is no real way to directly tell how a particular individual is contributing to the organization. In fact many of the measurements if not well-designed can work against the objectives the organizations...
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...Ethical Issues and Management Philip Kingsley XMGT/216 May 6th, 2012 Management employees are employed by organizations with the anticipation that they possess the skills to deal with various types of ethical issues on a daily basis. These skills are developed over a period of time through experience and education. For example, the types of ethical issues in which managers are relied upon to deal with range from various types of harassment, issuing disciplinary action, and termination of employment. At times, these situations can be extremely difficult, therefore managers must possess the ability to make the appropriate and often times difficultdecisions. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships between social issues and ethically responsible managerial practices. Different types of managerial roles exist throughout the business world. For example, there are Human Resource Managers, Department Managers, Floor Supervisors, and Executive Managers. Though the titles of these different types of managers differ from one to the next, essentially their roles are ideally the same. They hold to the responsibilities of ensuring that subordinate employees arrive to work on time, adhere to company policies and guidelines, and perform their duties in the appropriate manner. Further, managers are responsible for making sure that employee and departmental goals are being met. If these goals are not being met, managers are responsible for coaching and guiding their...
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...Ethical Issues and Management Paper 1. Introduction a. Managers are in a position of power. b. Their actions speak louder than words. c. “The most important thing for managers to remember about their job as a role model is that what they do is infinitely more important than what they say” (Trevino & Nelson, 2007, p. 173). 2. Body of Information a. Workplace setting and the ethical dilemma i. Purchasing department at a local hospital. 1. Order supplies for entire hospital. 2. Department consists of a manager and two employees. ii. Subordinate talks on her cell phone during shift. 1. Talking on a cell phone, during your shift, is against hospital policy. iii. Manager complains to the other department employee, but does nothing about the situation. iv. Although manager gets upset at his employee, he also talks on a cell phone during his shift. b. Moral and ethical issues faced by managers dealing with being a role model i. Managers need to do as they say. 1. Leading by example speaks volumes. 2. Purchasing department manager should not talk on a cell phone as well. ii. More ethical dilemmas will occur if the manager does not provide good examples. iii. Morally sound employees will become angry if the manager contradicts what he or she preaches. 1. Second purchasing employee becomes frustrated when the manager does the very action that he complains about. c. How the issues affect other individuals i. Can decrease productivity. ii. Employees will have less respect for the manager...
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...Ethical Issues and Management XMGT/216 May 1, 2011 Ethical Issues and Management There are many ethical and moral issues, legal or illegal, that managers face every day. The decisions management makes directly impacts the organization and affects the organizations reputation. Employment processes and business practices require managers to make decisions that will benefit the organization, its staff, and the community in which they operate. To ensure organizations operate responsibly, local, state, and federal government institute regulations in which employers must comply. Organizations also develop codes of ethics which guide the business transactions of the organization and staff which outline acceptable conduct specific to the organization and may highlight some government regulations. Managers are expected to act in an appropriate, professional manner so as to set examples for their staff, much in the same way adults represent themselves to children as role models. Managers have a responsibility to their organization to cultivate a healthy work environment for staff and customers and as role models; they influence how their employees conduct business, ethically and morally. Employees have their own set of ethics and morals before joining any organization, and it is up to managers to ensure they act responsibility and in accordance with company policies and codes of ethics. It is possible that even an employee with a high set of ethical standards can make unethical...
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