Ethical Managers and How They Affect the Workplace

UMUC

BMGT 364-6382    TERM: SPRING 2010

Term Paper: (Un) Ethical Managers and how they affect the workplace.

Submitted by: Tanya Brady

Submitted to: Dr. Don Clasen

Contents

Problem statement-research issue……………………………………………...3

Introduction to the paper………………………………………………..……...4

Promoting of ethical behaviors………………………………………………...5

Challenges of ethical behavior………………………………………………...7

Are you an (un) ethical manager?.......................................................................9

Ethics and how they affect business…………………………………………...12

Conclusion……………………………………………………………….….…13

Bibliography…………………………………………………………………..14

Related Resources…………………………………………………………….15

Problem statement-research issue:

Ethics and business go hand in hand but when the line between right and wrong is blurred managers have decisions to make. Those decisions affect the workplace, moral, behavior of other employees and the business/managers reputation.

This paper discusses:

1. Promoting of ethical behaviors.

2. Challenges of ethical behavior.

3. Are you an (un) ethical manager?

4. Ethics and how they affect business

Through these discussions managers should be able to make ethical and business enhancing decisions.

What is ethics and what is management? How do these two words work together and how can they work against each other? First lets understand what these words mean.

When asked, “what does ethics mean to you’, individuals reply with:

• "Ethics has to do with what my feelings tell me what is right or wrong."

• "Ethics has to do with my religious beliefs."

• "Ethics consists of the standards of behavior our society accepts."

• "Being ethical is doing what the law requires.”

Ethics does not come from religion, feeling, following the law or from whatever society accepts. Ethics refers to well base standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do,...