Essay 1

Ethical Guidelines

As a business owner you want to have guide lines set in place before you ever start up and start making money! You want your employees to trust you and listen to you and to do that you have to have good ethical guidelines to keep everything in a good flow. Keep in mind that these have to be agreed between you and the employee so they need to be reasonable and easily understandable if you wouldn’t hold to it then they shouldn’t have to either.

one that comes to mind when I walk into a place to get a job is if they have an open door policy and this means that anything that needs to be said can be with no punishment. This keeps people on the same page and if you are bothered by something then the right people should know. This will keep a lot of people at a place and will help you know what the problem is and how to fix it. It is the employees job to report and the manager’s job to be respectful and as open to the problem as possible fixing the problem is the first step, keeping it resolved is the next. If you can keep an open door policy and put most of the things on the table then you should be able to keep a fairly good staff and a nicely ran business.

Integrity, Ethical executives earn the trust of others through personal integrity. They demonstrate moral courage, doing what they think is right even when there is great pressure to do otherwise. Ethical executives are principled, honorable, upright and scrupulous. They fight for their beliefs and do not sacrifice principle for expediency. Having this as a main point in a meeting could change the whole business. If you have a manager that won’t back down and believe what is right and do everything in his power to keep his morals straight and fight for what he knows is right then you have a good job! Which in this day and time is hard to come by no matter how educated you are or what you have done in the past?

Loyalty is very important you have to be able to trust the people you are...