Performance Management Systems and Strategies

DEFINITION AND CONCEPTS

Ethics are moral principles about what is good, defensible, and right. Although operationally ethics need to be integrated with our behaviour and actions, we often treat ethics as an afterthought. Ethics and ethical reflection need to be integrated through all organizational practices. A common philosophical definition of ethics is the science of conduct or values of management. Moral values such as respect, honesty, fairness, and responsibility are important constructs of ethics. Application of such ethics is ensured by organizations by adopting some code of ethics. Thus, ethics includes the fundamental ground rules and organizations give an informed choice to the employees to understand whether something is right or ...