Ethics in Organizations

Carlos Mora Vanegas

The principles you live by create the world you live, and when we change these principles also changed the world we live

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Without strong values ​​are flirting with disaster, with strong values, we face the international markets. "

Kan Rinnov

Take into account as quoted by the Venezuelan magazine management, that ethics is a set of principles and values ​​that merit more human and coexistence among men. The principles are based as moral paradigms to be applied by a corresponding need for clarification and public discussion, these are previously known independently and prior to application. Values ​​are abstract ideas governed by thought and action to support the culture, vision and mission of a person.

In an organization, beliefs would become established in the business and its people to guide organizational strategy. Business ethics is set to dispel conflicts in the organization through moral reflection to help the stroke of the discussions and maneuvers appropriate arrangements to conduct justified (Cortina, 1996).

Losrecursoshumanos.com about give us, there are many reasons to consider the need for an ethics of organizations such as specific field of study in applied ethics. One of the most outstanding is that corporate ethics should be made public, it can not be as usually happens in the individual moral convictions, in the "internal forum". Faced with their responsibilities, organizations can not hold "feelings" moral (guilt, shame, pride, sense of duty) is what happens to people who have had some moral education. The organizations have to meet their responsibilities to collective decisions.

Which an organization must take responsibility for their actions is not new. In all developed countries there is detailed legislation, civil, criminal, labor, administrative, commercial, specifying that people have responsibilities and corporations. In developed countries there is also sufficiently reliable judicial systems that try to impose legal responsibilities when necessary. What is new is the social conscience that there is corporate responsibility, and should be effective even when the law fails to impose it. for example when it concerns acts committed outside the borders of the country of nationality of the corporation, where no law protects the property affected or when the procedure of judicial redress is so slow that it is useless. In these cases, and in many fights, external and internal pressure agents directly to the organization, as they can to take responsibility for their actions, regardless of whether or not a legal obligation to do so

Peter French,? Angel and Carmen Borrego Velajos, we suggest that business ethics is a branch of applied ethics. It deals with the study of the moral nature policy issues that arise in the world of business. Corporate governance, the organization of a corporation, the conduct in the market, business decisions, and so on. Business ethics is distinguished on the one hand, the business or economic sciences purely descriptive (not normative claims), such as econometrics or economic history. On the other hand, unlike knowledge with normative claims but not of a moral nature, such as economics or accounting. All science with normative claims have to confront at some point in their normative assumptions with questions like what is the foundation of the normative claim of this science? What certainties based his claim justified to propose criteria for the decision and action? Are these criteria universally valid? and so on.

Business ethics as an academic discipline usually involves one or more of the following topics: the study of moral principles applicable to economic and business life, study and criticism of the values ​​actually dominant in the economy in general and in each of organizations, the analysis of actual cases that exemplify the responsibility of the organizations and their various constituents, the development of voluntary standards bodies or standardized procedures based management principles and ethical values ​​and description of monitoring the import of these codes and procedures in specific organizations as well as observing their effects on the organizations themselves and their environment.

Any company, organization must be supported by a code of ethics which govern all its staff, in addition, to fulfill their social responsibility to the community where it operates, with their customers.

It also deals with business ethics often the study of personal virtues that must be present in the world of business. It is shown that such virtues are part of the correct understanding of what a good life for a manager for the group of people in an organization or wider society in which the organization itself is integrated

Companies must also guard towards preserving their ethics, and guaranteed, the guarantor of codes of ethics, as has been more written about it, that a globalized economy-oriented consumers and investors, financial scandals, environmental disasters or injustice in trade and labor relations are no longer just a legal problem. Some time ago that large corporations have learned that they may suffer further sanctions are not imposed by governments, but the loss of his reputation and market confidence. In this context the management of corporate responsibility is becoming increasingly important not only as part of risk management of an effective policy or public relations, but as an integral part of management and business organization. Ethics is a trust, to support the operation of the company.

Finally, consider the importance of taking into account that represent the code of ethics and about them, said Roberto de Michele, a lawyer specializing in business consulting, chelate two fundamental aspects of business ethics codes are: The rules that emerge from the decision of top management of the organization. The idea is that members of the company meet the objectives without losing the consistency with the objectives set by their leaders. One of the most challenging aspects of a code of ethics is put into practice and achieve compliance. When rules are based on consensus there is a greater likelihood of spontaneous acceptance. In this way, we can reduce the lack of internal coherence and increase trust among members of the organization.

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