Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dobel, J. Patrick

Titel

The Purposes of Ethics in Organizations

Ist Teil von

• Public Leadership Ethics, 2018, p.7-16

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Ethics anchors personal and mission integrity. Ethics and character become the focal point for shared cognitive frameworks of judgment that build a culture of performance and commitment to public purposes. These frameworks operationalize ethical decision making. Managerial leadership, well-designed incentives and structure enable ethics to be a resource of public purpose organizations. They are the obligations of good leaders and managers. Ethics focuses and fills in the reflective space in discretion. Ethics deepens organizational missions to recognize the true stakes for public organizations such as long-range and deep moral stakes for vulnerable populations, long-term social welfare or market failure. The ethics and integrity of persons and the performance daily tasks earn and reinforce an organization’s legitimacy. Daily ethical actions embody the organization’s culture and are the foundation for consistent, fair, competent and reliable performance. Ethics reinforces respect for equal human dignity to drive organizations to recruit and diversify their human resources, points of view and professional skills. Managerial leaders build teams of diverse people, skills and views into a common purpose to serve the public good and address the inequality and tensions around differences such as class, gender, race, ethnicity and religion. Ethics matters for persons and organizations because ethics both anchors and expresses integrity. The ethics and integrity of persons and the performance daily tasks earn and reinforce an organization's legitimacy. Ethics plays a critical role in public and nonprofit organizations because of its centrality to discretion. Managerial leaders and supervisors have strong obligations to exercise vigilance to address the issues when they arise. Organizational legitimacy and trust remain fundamental attributes of any successful public organization, and ethics is central to maintaining legitimacy in the eyes of the general public. Each decision of a managerial leader defines the nature of a problem, sets a precedent, contributes to the long-term policy or culture and will impact the resource base or power of an organization or team. An organizational ethic must figure out a way to engage such diversity in a way that builds reliable, respectful and competent results for all people served.