Integrity and the Ethics of Falsifying Business Documents

This paper’s topic is about how a person’s integrity plays into the decision to falsify information or documents in a business. Employee can experience pressure to falsify business documents; his integrity plays a part in his decision on whether he will falsify the document. The morals of a business pivot on the morals of its employees; this is why an employee’s morals are important to keeping a business alive. The basic core moral question I am discussing is when it comes to integrity is it ever ethically correct to falsify a business’s documentation. When a manager makes a decision to falsify a record or any type of business information has he corrupted his ethics. I feel that a manager that makes a conscious decision to falsify information

The way the moral problem arises from within this practice is a person starts to feel it is all right to falsify information and documents, he starts to feel that there is nothing wrong and that he is not really doing any harm.

“In fact, ethics has everything to do with management. Rarely do the character flaws of a lone actor fully explain corporate misconduct. More typically, unethical business practice involves the tacit, if not explicit, cooperation of others and reflects the values, attitudes, beliefs, language, and behavioral patterns that define an organization’s operating culture. Ethics, then, is as much an organizational as a personal issue. Managers who fail to provide proper leadership and to institute systems that facilitate ethical conduct share responsibility with those who conceive, execute, and knowingly benefit from corporate misdeeds”(Paine, 2016).

• Happiness is related to integrity, because when you conduct yourself with integrity you are following God will. A person then brings himself closer to God, and that leads to inner happiness.

• Instrumental & intrinsic goods are part of integrity because you are looking within yourself, and not at the people around