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Ethical Issues in Management

Ethical Issues in Management

Tina Glover

University of Phoenix

Introduction

Managers are needed all around the world. The management role is very important in an organization. When an organization has appointed an individual as being a manager, the organization has viewed this individual’s performance and ethical conduct. The individual has performed in a way that the organization feels the individual can be a role model. Organizations are always looking for leaders and people they can train to become a leader in their organization. Companies train employees to become better performers and it helps the company gain more progress in performance. However, being a manager has its ups and downs. Managers are faced with some easy decisions and sometimes they are faced with very difficult decisions.

When management make decisions concerning the business and employees, managers are faced with competing values in order to determine which moral value appears to be stronger than the other. Managers have to make decisions that are in the best interest of the organization. For instance, “a manager is obligated to protect proprietary information about an organizational layoff, and the manager has to address a conflict with this knowledge as it relates to a friend who will become affected by this layoff.” Managers as a role model, and sometimes friends are looked at in a special way by their coworkers.

Managers have a lot of responsibilities. When a manager takes on the title of becoming the manager, he or she is a big decision maker for their organization. Managers are responsible for the safety of their employees and their employees work performance. The management technique called continuous quality improvement (TQM) fits very well into the corporate goal to treat its employees ethically and function both as a socially responsible contributor to society and a provider of goods or services (www.faqs.org)....