Essentials of Business Ethics
Creating an Organization of High Integrity and Superior Performance
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Wiley
BBB Library: Corporate Success, Operations Management
ISBN: 9780470442562
Editorial Review
Organizations of high integrity achieve superior performance because they attract and retain high-quality employees, customers, suppliers and investors. Creating organizations of high integrity takes time and effort. This does not happen automatically, because human beings are not morally perfect. Unethical employees, customers, suppliers and investors can prevent organizations from achieving high integrity and superior performance. In addition, unethical organizations can be profitable in the short term, not the long term. So how do you create an ethical organization? This book, which is based on more than two decades of consulting, teaching, and researching, contains all the things I would do if I were the CEO. This book is a managerial how-to manual that can be implemented immediately.
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Wisdom to Share
Organizations of high integrity achieve superior performance because they attract and retain high-quality employees, customers, suppliers and investors.
When an organization employs someone, that individual brings to work not only unique job skills, but also his or her ethics.
Unethical situations can arise when a good person has insufficient knowledge and awareness, inadequate skills, or lacks judgment or courage.
Hiring just one employee with an unethical value system, someone whose sense of morality does not match that of a high-integrity work culture, can corrupt an organization.
Efforts to maximize ethical behavior and minimize unethical behavior at work must begin during the hiring process.
Employees arrive at the organization with a wide variety of ethical perspectives that’s why they need an ethical reference point.
Managers are role models, and the ethics of their actions are constantly being evaluated by subordinates.
Managers have already been promoted, so their daily workplace actions are indicators to subordinates of what it takes to be promoted.
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