Many, if not most, employers believe that they should treat each employee alike. This is not the ethical thing to do: Each employee should be treated as unique, and be given a project and the responsibility for completing it successfully, with the authority to recruit the necessary means. This will help them grow, and make their work more meaningful and interesting to them. This may sound naive but it is what some very successful businessmen are already doing. We should ask the CEO or the small-business owner if it wouldn't be ideal to develop each member of your staff so that s/he shows some managerial capacity if at all capable of it. Any business that does not give equal emphasis and attention to its customers, its profit (the shareholders), its employees, its environment, and to its community is not being fully ethical. If a business wants to live up to the standards of ethics, this is what it must do. If business owners, were clear about this and put it into practice they would find that maximum value would result.
Leaders, managers, foundations, and corporations should ask: How can we design competitions that have a positive effect on the evolution of excellence?
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The experience of this CEO suggests that work can be a joy for some workers. Learn how he managed to achieve it for so many of his employees as well as for himself.
Happy workers are productive workers and they tend to bring in more
customers.
The ethical path for businesses is to share gains. Robert L. Masternak
in a paper written in 2009 teaches that companies who decide to share their
gains with their workers (including managers, executives, and all the staff) are best advised
“to utilize narrow operational measures of true gains, such as productivity, quality, customer service, on-time delivery, and spending. Typically Gainsharing plans have multiple measures. In order for a gain to occur, the performance pie must improve.
As the pie expands, the greater the improvement (gain), and the more financial benefit for the company and employees. The key point is that there must be an improvement before any Gainsharing occurs.
A critical point is that since gains are typically measured in relationship to a historical baseline, employees and the organization must change in order to generate a gain.
{For further details see pp. 18-21 of Ethical Adventures. Here is a link to it:
http://wadeharvey.myqol.com/wadeharvey/ ... NTURES.pdf }
The meme that is widely-held, yet is an ignorant one, is that "the sole concern of a business is to make a profit". This needs to be replaced by a superior meme, namely, that if a business wants happy workers, and all the benefits that result, it is to "give equal attention to its employees, to the environment, to its community, to its customers, and thus to its shareholders, that is, to making a profit."Giving attention to its employees, its staff, usually mean some form of profit sharing (or "Gain-sharing.)
This is Ethics applied to business
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