Moral Issues

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This paper relates that people face moral issues everyday and that ethics are a key concern in one's life whether it is business or personal. The paper then describes the ways that leaders play an immensely significant role in creating and maintaining organizational ethics. The paper also examines the ethical behavior of companies, such as Enron Microsoft and Wal-mart, and of the airline industry.

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"Poor ethical practices were also found in the airline industry. The Airlines industry in the US suffered major losses when economic slowdown struck in the wake of September 11 attacks. Since then while some firms have managed to come out of the crisis, many went into oblivion and sought alliance with other airlines to strengthen their dwindling stocks. Ethical behavior becomes a major concern in such massive crisis. It is believed that most airlines would have been able to make suitable recovery had it not been for all those restrictions that government and Federal Aviation authority have burdened airlines with in order to beef up security for the protection of people and homeland."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Drucker P. Claremont Graduate Univ., Managing Oneself. , Harvard Business Review, 03-01-1999, pp 65.
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• Brass, Daniel J.; Butterfield, Kenneth D.; Skaggs, Bruce C., Relationships and unethical behavior: a social network perspective.. Vol. 23, Academy of Management Review, 01-01-1998, pp 14(18).

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