Question

question-(strategic management)

As the facilitator at a company seminar, you are to train newly recruited first-line officers of your company in business ethics and social responsibility. Identify what strategies can help to align ethical and strategic decision making in order to establish an ethics culture.

Answer 1

Strategies that can help to align ethical and strategic decision making in order to establish an ethics culture are responsibility of senior management who guide their staff and employees to evaluate their decisions with ethical views. Setting of personal example and behaviour is most important in creating an ethical culture and this applies to decision making also. The ethical and moral conduct of the organisation should be clearly defined through code of conducts and arranging workshops to explain the philosophy followed by the organisation at the time of decision making. The staff needs to be made aware of the organisational viewpoints on various ethical outlooks like Utilitarianism , Kant's principles or virtues theory. The managers need to be trained for ethical decision making by scenario practices, role playing and open discussions, lecture so that they can identify their actions and compare it with organisational thinking on ethics. For aligning strategic decision making and ethics, it is important to recognise the ethical actions openly and reward them so that they become example across the company to follow in similar situations.