Ethical Supervisors

Operating in the role of a supervisor requires you to be ethical and fair in your all your decision making. An ethical supervisor enforces the policies of the company, build the morale of employees and practice what they preach. Fair treatment should be based on trust and respect of the employee. All complaints of offensive behavior and unfair treatment should be handled immediately according to company policies. Discipline is sometimes needed to let an employee know their work performance needs improving. Supervising with ethics, fair treatment and discipline at work is a responsibility that ensures unfairness and injustices are avoided.

Ethics in the workplace are simply doing the right thing. Ethics is the glue that holds a business together. A company’s ethical principles are the ways employees are expected to act in the workplace and supervisors are to ensure this takes place. Ethics represent the core values you hold or that a company sets in its "Code of Ethics." While ethics might have different meanings at different companies, generally ethics refers to how you behave (Reeves). Supervisors are to practice what they preach when enforcing the ethics of an organization. If honesty, integrity, and good behavior are what you expect, then that’s the example you should lead by. Supervisors can do a lot to influence employee ethics by

Fair treatment also includes treating an employee fairly based on their individual work performance, individual circumstances, and overall performance. A good manager is one who treats everyone fairly. That not only means his/her employees, but also superiors, peers, employees in other departments or companies, everyone (Reh). When employees are not treated fairly it can bring down employee’s morale, company production, and high employee turnovers. Depending on the situation