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Ethical Issues Organizations Face

Ethical issues in management is a study designed to find out controversial difficulties,

problems and diversities encountered by managers in both private and public organizations.

Diversity refers to the challenges that individuals face within the working environment place.

However, this article seeks to discuss the ethical issues organizations face when implementing

changes. Managers face numerous moral and ethical affairs concerning diversity every day.

Management practices that are responsibly for social issues and ethics are essential in the

management process. Ethically, managers that act irresponsible to the management of diversity

in their places of work are not sensitive to the needs of their employees. Hence, it becomes too

hard for such managers to implement changes in their organizations. Therefore, there are various

ways managers can hinder ethical issues concerning diversity arising at their workplaces, but

first they must comprehend the moral and ethical matters affecting them.
The primary and common ethical issues that frequently occur in the places of work are

the conflicts among the employees. An employee can get mad to another employee in the

working place due to various reasons. However, it is the obligation of the management staff to

identify the conflict and find a way to resolve it before it is out of hand. This action is supposed

to be taken faster by the managers because it becomes difficult to maintain a productive station

when the employees are not in good terms with each other now and then. Managers are

supposed/ expected to lead by example. They instill the moral confidence in their employees

when they act ethically and positively. Despite them practicing role model, they still face ethical

and moral problems. Therefore, the managers should put into practice daily the responsibility of

ethics and morals among the employees. Some of the social issues if not controlled at an early

stage they lead to the diversity of human resources leading to reduced production in the company

(Baase, 2008).
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Another ethical matter that affects most managers when implementing change is the issue

of hiring employees. It might be difficult for most employers to determine whom to hire,

especially if the managers are a little discriminative. Though many companies often say that the

employees will have an equal chance, which is not the case. In addition, personal respect can be

an ethical issue that affects change in an organization. Understanding workforce in an association

is an important factor to be considered in the management process. Respecting and recognizing

employees at an individual level will enhance the flow of work in the company leading to an

efficient production of products. Being disrespectful to the employees makes them not to respect

the managers too, especially when there is an implementation of a change. Employees that are

disrespected and not recognized will tend to oppose any positive revolution/progress the

company intends to make. Another ethical issue that pervades the place of work is race. Some

employers often favor the employees that they share race with. Managers, who require

implementing change in their working places and being effective, require not to practice

discrimination among the employees. Prejudice of human resources will make the ones

discriminated not to involve themselves actively in the implementation of change. Thus, it

becomes difficult to achieve the change that has been introduced (Gunn, and Taylor, 2014).
Furthermore, a tricky ethical issue might hinder the implementation of change in an

organization. This is ethnicity. Customs are based on ones culture than the race. The manager

may not be aware of all cultures of his/her employees. Different people observe different

ethnicities at certain holidays. As a manager, these holidays are supposed to be given to

employees who they affect. Failure to such, most employees tend to turn up at work, but

completely their minds are at the function of their culture. Implementing a change at that

moment might meet many challenges from the employees. Another ethical hotspot in the

workplace is religion. To avoid moral or ethical dilemmas and misunderstandings among the
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employers and employees, each of them needs to comprehend and familiarize with each others

religious beliefs. For instance, a Muslim employee may be having their holy Ramadhan month

and manager jokes on the same hence creating enmity between the two. Thus, if the employee is

assigned some work in the corporation might not take it as of his brother. Hence, the completion

of a change becomes a problem. Also, an employer who takes a Muslim worker at a restaurant

and buy him/her pork may face a challenge when he wants to implement a change as the Muslim

employee might not participate in the change bearing in mind that he/she was frustrated once by

his/her employer basing on religion differences (Baase, 2008).

For any person to work effectively, he/she needs to be physically fit and healthy. The

health of employees should be a concern to the employer. Employers are supposed to come up

with a way to maintain the worker healthy. They can do these through the introduction of the

health insurance services. They deduct some money from the employee but also contribute to the

contribution. The employers half contribution towards the health of an organization leads to

employees participation in the industry high resulting in all changes that are implemented to be

worked on. On the other hand, companies with poor health cannot operate hard, and therefore,

they do not implement changes easily in an organization.

Finally, promotion among the employees is another ethical issue that if not done

carefully, it can lead to the implementation of changes difficult. For example, workers working

under same conditions but with different levels of experience, and the one with low qualification

getting promotion might lead to the employee with high qualifications getting discouraged and

may not be able to implement changes in the same organization.

In conclusion, it is vital for managers to work on their ethical issues and learn how to

understand their employees to foster a productive environment that can enable implementation of

changes in their organizations. Good rapport between the employers and employees, also

facilitate resolving of conflicts within the workplace. However, for the best production in a
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company, both the worker and the employer should respect each other according to the positions

they hold in an organization. Failure to these leads to the implementation of changes in an

organization difficult.

References
Baase, S. (2008). A gift of fire: Social, legal, and ethical issues for computing and the Internet.

Prentice Hall.
Gunn, J., & Taylor, P. (2014). Forensic psychiatry: clinical, legal and ethical issues. CRC Press.