Ethical Business Leadership

 

Mpho Bosupeng

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

Traditionally people have ran away with the notion that business and ethics are oxymorons. This means that business and ethics are antagonistic. The glitch is people believe that business is often characterized by unethical acts such as bribery, soliciting insider information, gifting with strings attached and turning a blind eye to corrupt acts. But can we say that we should give up on business ethics? Who is to say? Is it right to say that the business-ethics debacle is over? It is true that we cannot eliminate unethical acts completely in any business. This is simply because ethical acts frequently have everything to do with an individual’s expectations and what is important to them. Sometimes these factors are not self-evident and this is what makes ethics quite a difficult aspect. People do not always put their aims, motives, hopes and needs clearly on the table for us to understand and digest. The ethical decision is often clouded in these cases.

For example, imagine I am your boss a, CEO. At the end of a particular business meeting I offer you a gift worth $100 000. You ask me the purpose of the gift and I just say, “it’s a reward for your good performance”. Of course you will take the gift under such circumstances. However, soon you realize that my leadership is not suitable for the long run operation of the business. In consequence, you are to state this anomaly at a meeting with the board next week. You feel it would be better to state this but before the proposed meeting I warn you to provide a good account of my leadership. The gift I bestowed you limits your independence and ethical decision making. Your ethical decision making is clouded. Even though you regret your acceptance of the gift, I push you further saying that I might dismiss you from your position. It is now a complicated matter.

Gifting is one of the problems affecting ethical decision making in business settings because you loose your independence and sense of

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Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG

Texte: Mpho Bosupeng
Lektorat: Mpho Bosupeng
Tag der Veröffentlichung: 08.08.2015
ISBN: 978-3-7396-0885-3

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