Ethics Reflection Paper
STR/581
May 10, 2011
Richard Cronen
Ethics Reflection Paper
Ethics is very essential in regards to not only how one conducts themselves in their day-to-day lives but also plays a key role in business. When organizations and/or businesses are in the works of creating a strategic plan they must take into consideration the role that ethics will play and the idea of social responsibility affecting the plan in order to ensure that the desire and needs of the stakeholders are satisfied.
Ethics in business is the essential tools utilized in order to assist employees of an organization understand how they should conduct themselves accordingly to the standards ...view middle of the document...
For these reasons organizations must ensure that they hire upper management that understand the mission and vision of the organization and can carry out the strategic plan established by the stakeholders by conducting themselves ethically.
At the beginning of the Master’s Business Administration (MBA) ethics and the idea of behaving ethically were discussed as being very important in the business world because it plays an integral part in how others are treated. Throughout the MBA program, a continual emphasis has been on the important role that ethics plays and how individuals in society should create some type of corporate and personal culture where there is accountability. Creating this type of culture will allow individuals to be less inclined to behave unethically.
The implementation of the learning team projects throughout the MBA program provided a good way for all team members to practice and test their ethics, and values in working with others and understanding each person’s individual circumstances. In the Assessment of...