Business Strategy

Personal differences and preferences and its impact on the Organizational ethics

In some circumstances, some people have power over other people. For example, a CFO has more power than an accountant. In a situation in which people are not equal in terms of their power, it may be important not to treat people as if they were morally equal.

Generally, while it might be acceptable for someone who happens to be a CFO to ask another person for date, it would not be acceptable for a CFO to ask an accountant for a date (because there would be unusual pressure on the accountant to accept due to the face that the CFO is the boss) That shows the difference between personal ethics and professional ethics.

Ethics have nothing to do with being nice. Ethics is motivation based on ideas of right or wrong. The “right attitude” has nothing to do with being friendly. It is very possible to be an ethical ignorant. Or be a very nice person with no sense of personal or professional ethics.

But let’s explain the definition of ethics and what ethics are to us. Business ethics can be defined as written and unwritten codes of principles and values that run decisions and actions within a company. In the business world, the organization’s culture sets standards for determining the difference between good and bad decision making and behavior.

People live in environments that affect them in many ways. They have their own religion, their own point of view toward an issue. What we should concern is not at the boundary but the way that a person interacts with environment. For example, for catholic people, when your company forces the staff to work in Christmas day, what are they supposed to do? Work or go to the church?