Ethical Communications in Organizations

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This paper examines how with capitalism and materialism gaining momentum,for a work place to be proficient in terms of quality, quantity and performance, it is highly essential that it concentrates on the moral content of organizational decision-making. It looks at how today, ethics is a major concern for global business and how the ethics of a workplace are only as much intact as the morality of its workforce. It evaluates how business enterprises are expected to work on how to modify the individual attitude in order to help business flourish and keep all employees satisfied and how incorporating and communicating ethics is a major concern and a challenge for the worldwide business.

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"Moreover, unethical behavior in the workplaces arising from the lack of ethical communication by the top management to the first-line supervisors proves the fact that employees are either directly or indirectly rewarded for unethical acts or harshly abandoned for going against the norm of practicing corruption (Zimmerman, 2001, p. 119). As explained by Jansen and Von Glinow through their exhaustive study that encouraging "counternorms" in an organization is also a form of promoting unethical standards in a company in order to save the firm's name or to avoid charges thereby reflecting the decreasing ethical communication in organizations. These experts believe that "within organizations, it is often considered not only acceptable but desirable, to be much more secretive and deceitful. The practice of stonewalling, willingly hiding relevant information is quite common (that fully supports our thesis statement). One reason for this is that organizations may actually punish those who are too open and honest" (Ronald & Sims, 1992, p. 505)."

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