moral
(adjective)
Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behavior, especially for teaching right behavior.
Examples of moral in the following topics:
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Moral Leadership
- Ethical or moral leadership demonstrates responsibility for doing what is right.
- Moral leadership means making decisions that respect the rights and dignity of others.
- Moral leadership is important for protecting an organization's reputation.
- Moral leadership goes beyond doing what is legal.
- In this way, moral leaders take responsibility for the moral climate in their organizations and help others understand, share, and act in accordance with those values.
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Ethics Training
- People use moral reasoning in an attempt to do the right thing.
- Swaner, moral behavior has four components:
- Moral motivation, which is "a personal commitment to moral action, accepting responsibility for the outcome."
- Realizing good conduct, being an effective moral agent, and bringing values into one's work, all require skills in addition to a moral inclination.
- Moral creativity: Moral creativity is closely related to moral imagination, but it centers on the ability to frame a situation in different ways.
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Ethical Decision Making
- Ethical decision making is the process of assessing the moral implications of a course of action.
- Ethics are moral principles that guide a person's behavior.
- These morals are shaped by social norms, cultural practices, and religious influences.
- Ethical decision making is the process of assessing the moral implications of a course of action.
- All decisions have an ethical or moral dimension for a simple reason—they have an effect on others.
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Culture and Ethics
- Culture reflects the moral values and ethical norms governing how people should behave and interact with others.
- Culture reflects the moral and ethical beliefs and standards that speak to how people should behave and interact with others.
- They act as prescriptions for correct and moral behavior, lend meaning and coherence to life, and provide a means of achieving a sense of integrity, safety, and belonging.
- This approach is in contrast to universalism, which holds the position that moral values are the same for everyone.
- Explain the role of culture in shaping moral and ethical behavior
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Defining Ethics
- Ethics are the set of moral principles that guide a person's behavior.
- Ethics are the set of moral principles that guide a person's behavior.
- These morals are shaped by social norms, cultural practices, and religious influences.
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Applying the Ethical Decision Tree
- Ethics are moral principles that guide a person's behavior.
- These morals are shaped by social norms, cultural practices, and religious influences.
- All decisions have an ethical or moral dimension for a simple reason—they have an effect on others.
- Managers and leaders need to be aware of their own ethical and moral beliefs so they can draw on them when they face decisions.
- Decision-tree analysis can help identify or uncover the potential impacts of alternatives so that a decision maker can select the one that is most consistent with her ethical and moral beliefs.
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Moral Principles in Management
- Morality (from the Latin moralitas, meaning "manner, character, proper behavior") is the differentiation of intentions, decisions, and actions between those that are good (or right) and those that are bad (or wrong).
- Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct.
- Business ethics (also corporate or professional ethics) is a form of applied ethics that examines the principles and moral beliefs that guide management decisions.
- Many employees prefer to work for organizations that share their own moral beliefs.
- To be viewed by the public as having high moral standards, many companies have created a position called the corporate ethics officer or the corporate compliance officer.
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The Manager's Role in Ethical Conduct
- Conversely, conflicts can occur between an individual's moral values and what she perceives to be those of others in their organization.
- Since moral judgments are based on the analysis of the consequences of behavior, they involve interpretations and assessments.
- To make ethical and moral choices, one needs to have a clear understanding of one's personal values.
- Without that awareness, it can be difficult to justify a decision on ethical or moral grounds in a way that others would find persuasive.
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Ethical Conflicts
- A person who must choose between competing moral imperatives faces an ethical dilemma.
- Discuss the innate contradictions that often arise in an ethical dilemma, where two or more different moral imperatives conflict
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Flaws in the Classical Perspectives
- Taylorism's negative effects on worker morale only added fuel to the fire of existing labor-management conflict, which frequently raged out of control between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries (when Taylorism was most influential), and thus it inevitably contributed to the strengthening of labor unions.
- The behavioral approach to management took an entirely different approach and focused on managing morale, leadership, and other behavioral factors to encourage productivity rather than solely managing the time and efficiency of workers.
- Taylorism and classical management styles negatively affected the morale of workers, which created a negative relationship between workers and managers.