Business Ethics Of Satisfaction Employees Recognition

Framing in Ethical Decision Making

Discuss about the Business Ethics of Satisfaction Employees Recognition.

1. Framing changes our choice of action. As opined by Jepma and López-Solà 2014, if we make choices examining the value based questions it will help us in ensuring a long-term success in our work life. People, who take decision guided by the profit making agenda, will obtain money. But the people who frame their decision on the ethical structure, obtain a better result as it include a broad range of profit variables like the value base of the work, the faith and satisfaction of the employees, recognition of the clients etc. Thus, the right framing can help us in our work life to achieve slow but sure success.

2. Once in my childhood, I faced such a situation. Once before my exam I was ill. I was hospitalised for a few days. It hampered my study and preparation for the exams. The night before my exams, I was terrified with the idea of failing in exam. Suddenly, I took the decision of cheating in exam. The following day I did the same. It occurred in my mind, that I was doing wrong, but I framed my decision in the different way. I thought, as I was ill I did not get the equal opportunity of preparation like others, and kept on cheating. Now, I know, that I should think about it in a different way. If I followed, my moral values I would not made this decision. In that situation, I should consider myself as someone who is obtaining an undue advantage over others by cheating. If I considered that situation in this Perspective, my decision would be something else.

3. As discussed by Rose 2013, framing is a popular instrument of the politicians and the advertisers. As mentioned in the attached video, the marketers try to hide the weaknesses of their product through framing. Modern advertisements the marketers often highlights the natural features of a product as its advantage and claims that their product is thus superior that others. On the other hand, the politicians often manipulate the numerical data to present a better of picture of their reign. These are not the wrong data but presented in a different manner for the profit of that political parties.

4. Adverse framing lead us towards a wrong choice. If I fail to look into the situation with its broader perspective and have lured by the short-term profits it will adversely affect my professional goals. The adverse framing can distort my foresight and restrict me to identify the future problems. In any profession, making ethically correct decision is a prerequisite for future advancements. Therefore, the adverse framing may damage the ethical base of our decision and thus restrict our potential of future growth. 

Adverse Framing and its Impact on Professional Goals

5. To avoid ignoring of the ethical concerns, we must measure our decision on the benchmark of our inner values. As discussed by Saxena and Srinivasan 2013, if the values support the decision, then one can follow it. Narrow and short-term profit making ideas can manipulate our decision making process. Therefore, it is important for us to set a prior value base for our life. It will shape up our decision of career and life with a strong ethical base.

1. As discussed by Paley 2015, most of the White-collar criminals are the people who are confident and well educated. I think he will be someone who does not consider himself as a criminal. Rather he will love to call himself a victim of the situation.

2. As opined by Berry and Frederickson 2015, it is most unlikely that a white-collar criminal possess a hard family life. They do not have any criminal attributes within themselves. They are the criminals who just have utilised the faults in our financial system. Their neighbours recognise them as well-educated gentle men, because that is their reality. Deep down their nature resides a criminal mentality.

3. I also possess the experience of being the victim of the situation. Within that circumstance, I was compelled to behave unethically. Previously, I was working in an organization in a decision making position. That time that organization was suffering with low revenue. In that situation, we got a clientele of a company, which was able to provide a substantial support. The managerial personnel were trying hard to get the contract. One day, that client reported that one of our employees has behaved badly with their manager. That employee was a woman. She reported me that the manager of our client company behaved with her indecently and she protested. Now our client wanted the resignation of that employee. In that circumstance, I made that employee lose her job to retain the job security of other employees, as this client was important for the survival of our company. I feel embarrassed of my behaviour until now. However, I was left with no choice then.

4. It is important for us not to jump on any decision. As discussed by Walker et al. 2015, while judging someone, it is needed to take due time to know about the situation and circumstances as well as the history of socialization of that person. Only then, an unbiased judgment can be procured.

Measuring Decision on Benchmark of Inner Values

The philosophical and ethical theories intended to guide our decision-making process hold a collection of approaches (Sakwa 2013). Now, if we consider a single problem to solve with the different kind of approaches we may eventually obtain the same result.

For example if we consider the issue of ever-growing population in the world, especially in the Asian and African countries, a number of approaches can be followed. Now, if the governments pass a regulation on the right of production of the people as the Chinese authority did earlier, it would hurt the philosophy of the individualism and the freedom of cultural identity of the people. On the other hand, the ignorance of the scenario will lead to the disrupt the philosophy of co-existence, as this global problem of increasing population is disturbing the natural resources and thus snatching the right of others to live a happy life. Nevertheless, if the question can be asked in a different approach, it can be noticed that all the philosophies lead to the same destination of individual as well as the community happiness (Sakwa 2013). Guided by the idea of co-existence and community happiness, if the government imposes a policy of wilful regulation on the production right of the people, the natural resources will be less hurt and the people can live a better life.

On the other hand, if we consider the question success of the communist economic policy in the Soviet Union, we can be led to a different result by following the different ethical philosophies. As opined by Sakwa 2013, the fall of the communism in The Soviet Union cannot be discussed in a single tone. However, if we consider the philosophy of individualism we can find that it is the right of a person to be happy and accumulate the resources for his happiness. However, the idea of community happiness and co-existence explains that the accumulation of resources is harmful for the society as it creates discrimination and inequality among the people. Therefore, the communist economy suggests the equal allocation of the resources. In this regard, the individualistic approach argues that, as the individual faculty of people are not the same, it is wrong to allocate the resources equally among the population (Sakwa 2013). However, the philosophies advocating the community happiness, talks that everyone is same within the scale of the nature and hence possess the same right to obtain the equal portion of the minimal opportunities of life (Teulon, F., 2014).

Fundamental Attribution Error

Thus, these different policies and approaches can lead people to the same or different decisions in a rage of situations.

1. Organizations and institutions use the incentive tool in order to motivate the employee and increase their productivity (Obloj and Zemsky 2015). No one likes giving extra effort in workplace that is why organization employs supervisors in order to monitor employees. According Soukup et al., 2015, based on the performance organization gives incentives or accolades to those whose work has impressed the authorities of an organization. I work under an organization and I receive payment based on the amount of work I do. Incentive planning is available in my organization and the people who achieve more than the target only they get incentives or bonus. Last month I was able to work more that my assigned target and that is why I got incentive.

It was the first time when I was getting incentive; I was elated at my achievement and it really influenced me to work hard for my organization. Now I really want to work hard and perform better so that I can achieve accolades for my skills.

2. Grading system is the ethical part of education system. Students are bestowed with grades according to their performance level. Teacher asses the quality of the work of the student and grades them so that the student can understand his or her capability. Grade symbolizes the academic measurement through which a student is assessed. In order to get good grades student work hard for their assignments. However, sometimes students in greed of getting good grades diversify their route and undertake substandard paths so that they can fulfill their wish.

A student cheats in his or her examination which effects badly and ruins the virtuous intension behind grading. Cheating is not the proper way to gain incentives or gain good grades. However, students are blinded by their aspiration of getting good marks and opt for easier way to achieve the goal.

3. Gaming is not ethical. In order to gain incentive one should work hard. Researchers have scrutinized this condition of human behavior and deduced that human nature feels compulsion to attain unethical ways in order to get incentives. Human nature works in curious ways and drives them to acquire unethical ways to succeed in their goal of achieving incentives.

Human being inherits unethical ways in order to gain incentive but it is not the right way to respond to the system. Incentive is a tool that the company uses to provide accolades to the person who really deserves it (Ederer, Holden and Meyer 2013). The person who designs the incentive structure should stop the person who is exploiting the system. The person who designs the incentive scheme has the authority to stop all the unethical practice that corrupts an ethical system like incentive (Meyer, Ederer and Holden 2013). Behavioral ethics is the field of psychology that helps to understand the ways why people act in certain manners.

Fundamental Moral Unit

1. Dan Ariel is a famous psychologist who scrutinizes human behavior. His research about human behavioral ethics involves the discrepancies that a human nature possesses. Dishonesty is a nuance that affects the psychology of a person and compels him to consider unethical paths in order to achieve the unachievable objectives (Minarcik and Bridges 2015). The psychologists say that dishonesty is a negative attribute in a person and abolishing that attribute at right is important.

I completely agree with psychologist because dishonesty needs prevention. Termination of subordinate demeanor is needful, as it will assist a person to develop his personality and revitalize his character.

2. When I was in college, I once cheated in my exam in order to achieve the grade I desire. It was my sociology exam and I was not good in that subject. My sociology professor told me that he would cancel my name from the college band if I do not get ‘A’ grade in the subject. I cheated and got the grade and got accolades for my good result. The professor was so happy with my outcome that he allotted my name in sociology essay contest that was taking place in the college campus. He said that he has full faith in me and knows that I will succeed. In this case, I was a victim of slippery slope phenomenon.

3. My friend started stealing money from his father. His greed increased day by day and soon he started stealing amount that was much more than the amount he stole at the first place. He realized that he was not doing the right thing but his greed overpowered his sense of conscientiousness. One day his father caught him red handed and thus he landed himself in a big trouble from where he could not return. His father lost his trust on him and he could not regain his position that he once had.

4. Cynthia Cooper has rightly commented that people do not become criminal in one day. I think she is right because it is a systematic process where a person slowly entangles himself into criminal offences. An individual starts with a crime and then slowly goes on repeating himself as he loses control on himself. Crime is a punishable offence that leads an individual towards the path of darkness (Volokh 2013). It is like a slippery slope where one wrong footing leads the person into a circular process where the individual cannot control himself but keeps on taking the same wrong step that he took earlier (Alves and Meadowcrof  2014).

Different Philosophies Leading to Similar Results

I completely agree with the statement of Cynthia Cooper and think that she has commendably assessed the situation of slippery slope phenomenon.

5. Firstly, a person should not precipitate in taking any decision. People should not target unachievable objectives. Unachievable objectives may drive a person to take unethical routes to reach their targets. Slippery slope is a procedure that deliberately drives a person to take road that is not desirable (Dowling, Knechel and Moroney 2015).

There is a thin line between gaming and cheating which is not to be neglected. Gaming is acceptable but cheating is not as it lower the quotient of ethics in profession.

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