Ethics and Management

Paper Summary:

The paper provides an extensive review of the literature on ethics in business management to determine the concerns of business ethicists, and then compares those concerns with the concerns of a small business man, as revealed in a case study. The paper's case study involves a covert participant observation of the ethical practices of a privately-run small business. The paper includes an interview with the small business owner, to determine whether or not he perceived ethical conflicts in the course of his business, and the nature of any ethical conflicts that he perceived. Finally, the paper compares the ethical concerns described by the business scholars and commentators to the concerns described by the small businessman.

Outline:
Introduction
Literature Review
Methodology
Findings
Discussions
Conclusions

From the Paper:

"It is not a surprise that managers and companies at all different levels find themselves increasingly concerned with ethics. Ethical scandals around the globe have shaken consumer confidence in big business, caused tremendous hardships for both the employees and the shareholders of the impacted companies, and created consequences that continue to reverberate through the business community. However, ethical scandals are not only billion-dollar affairs like the U.S. Enron scandal. On the contrary, ethical scandals can erupt in any size corporation and at any level in the workplace. The reality is that while those scandals may attract vast amounts of media attention and have almost unimaginable financial consequences, most people are probably not going to be directly impacted by an ethical scandal of that magnitude. However, that does not mean that people are unlikely to be touched by ethical scandals. On the contrary, people in industrialized nations do business with a huge variety of different entities in a tremendous variety of different types of businesses, and they are likely to be personally impacted by corporate or business ethics during their lifetime."

Sample of Sources Used:

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• Chye Koh, H, Boo, EHY 2004, 'Organisational ethics and employee satisfaction and commitment.' Management Decision, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 677-693.

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