Ethics in Management

Personal Values, ground rules, and ethics vary from person to person.   Each person possesses their own carefully crafted set of values, ethics, and ground rules, which shape their lives both personally and professionally.   Throughout our lives, we are faced by many challenges and dilemmas that often become the basis for our ethical views, set ground rules for our futures actions, and serve in the development of our personal values. It is this base that provides us with the ability to make decisions that maximize the benefits of a situation while minimizing the possible costs in a personal and professional capacity.
Personal Values, Ground Rules, and Ethics
My personal values, ground rules, and ethical code are based upon ideas of commitment, consistency, integrity, respect, responsibility, priority, and moral reasoning.   These attributes and factors shape my everyday actions and reactions to certain situations and provide the basis for my morality and ethical conduct.  
Basis for my Personal Values, Ground Rules, and Ethics
My personal values, ground rules, and ethical code are based upon many factors.   First, my own values are based upon moral reasoning, which is “individual or collective practical reasoning about what, morally, one ought to do.” (Moral Reasoning, 2003)   This philosophical basis allows me to reason, practically, about what morally I ought to do in certain situations.     Thus, when faced with a certain situation or dilemma which may present itself, I have already developed a reaction based upon a previous similar situation, or I will actually stop and use critical thinking to reason the possibilites of the situation.  
The principal of respect for others and for self is also a foundation for my personal values, ground rules, and ethical code.   Failure to take into account the treatment and respect for others and for myself in certain sistuations, can result in poor choices being made.   Although applying this particular principal can be...