Managers Should Be Ethical in their Decision Making

I do think that managers should be ethical in their decision making. First let’s define what being ethical means. Ethical means being morally correct or either right or wrong so decision making is important to create a professional work environment for employees and their leaders. Being fair to all employees as well as being open minded and flexible in your decision making can make a world of a difference. If we didn’t have ethics decision making in the workplace, which gives us boundaries or what is right and what is wrong in the workplace. Not having those boundaries there are many areas that are grey that are created which may become difficult to enforce among your employees. Ethics drives the foundation of business decisions. It is also the care of success and relationships building with consumers and business partners.

Recently I had a discussion with my brother and I approached him with this question by asking him should managers be ethical in their decision making? And if so, how should ethics be used in decision making? To my surprise my brother agreed with the question and said that managers should be ethical in their decision making. Now mind you my brother is a former Customer Service Manager and Department Manager of one of the biggest retail chains today that we call “Wally World” better known as Wal-Mart.

In his position he informed me that being in a management position you are taught and trained on what is ethical in your decision making and how to handle it. But you have to take what you learn and incorporate it in your own way of handling things. An example that came up when we were discussing was when he had to discipline one of his associates for being tardy several days in a row. His upper level of manageme...

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In my quest to become a recreation facility and program supervisor cost-analysis is the most feasible alternative in my case. The reason I say this is because cost analysis combines subjective methods and mathematical techniques to compare alternative courses of action. This is also known as pros and cons.

This Self-Assessment opened my eyes on a whole new level. I never knew that I could really apply some of these questions in my everyday life and I especially didn’t know that I could apply some of the terminology in the book to the position that I plan to have in the near future. Who would of that? One thing that would help me build credibility in my relationships with others is that I can now see the pros and cons of any scenario that may be thrown my way as I encounter new relationships along the way.