The Four Views of Ethics: Including a Discussion of the Benefits and drawbacks Related to each of the Four Views.

Introduction Ethics can be defined as the code of moral principles that sets standard of good or bad, or right or wrong, in one's conduct (Schermerhorn 2005). Ethics is important for a manager's decision because every decision they made, they had to consider who will be affecting and the outcome of the decision to the company. Different managers had different concept of ethical decision. Thus, there are four views of ethics in influencing a manager's ethical …

…criteria such as effects on efficiency and profit, but also the individual rights, social justice and lastly the community standard (Robbins et al. 2003). Usually, ethical companies perform well financially and are better off as compare to the companies who are rather not ethical in their decision-making. For this reason, every company should adopt one of the views of ethics depending on anyone, which is suitable for them, as they are beneficial for their company. (1083 Words)