Ethics During Change Organization ethics is how an organization ethically responds to internal or external stimulus. Organizational ethics express the values of an organization to its employees and other entities, irrespective of governmental and/or regulatory laws put in place. Ethics in an organization is important to help keep structure, to make sure the organization runs efficiently and stays profitable. However, ethical culture is something that is overlooked when implementing changes in an organization even though the organization has a conduct of ethics and conduct manuals. World business organizations are fast changing at an alarming speed. One of the main factors affecting an effective implementation of changes in organizations is the issue on ethics. Change in organization should not be seen as an effort to profit maximization only, changes is also undertaken to broaden ethical awareness inside an organization. During organization change, there will always be resistance to new changes; this is as a result of organization ethical culture. Upper management and supervisors are also subject to resistance of change. Addressing ethical issues during a change can prevent the misuse or abuse of ethical behavior in an organization. In the process of implementing change, ethics is often ignored by the management even though there are several provisions in an organization’s code of manuals, ethics and ethical culture. When everything is rapidly changing in the business environment, ethics should not be the last thing to be overlooked by the management of an organization. Along with the changes in the environmental, cultural and business aspect of an organization, ethics shall come along with these changes. During the course of change implementation, many organization faces various ethical issues, some of these includes: 1. Financial crisis Financial crises are both moral and ethical issues, which require great changes in terms of applying primary changes in the manner of thinking and behavior of the higher stratum management of the organization. Leadership requires involvement of the leaders first before going down to the lower level. This principle can be applied when confronting unethical behaviors within the organizational structure. The higher management should take first the initiative to resolve issues involving unethical behaviors or issues that arises as a result of organization changes. 2. Global warming This is a worldwide phenomenon that continuously becomes a challenge to every kind of business. Many organizations think of ethically suitable solutions to the growing issues of climate change. But there comes an existing concern on the lack of set of ethical standards on how to address the issue on global warming ethically. 3. Globalization This involves assimilation of different societies, economies and cultures together with their respective regional, moral and ethical values through global networking in form of com ...

1. Ethics During Change
Organization ethics is how an organization ethically
responds to internal or external stimulus. Organizational ethics
express the values of an organization to its employees and other
entities, irrespective of governmental and/or regulatory laws put
in place. Ethics in an organization is important to help keep
structure, to make sure the organization runs efficiently and
stays profitable. However, ethical culture is something that is
overlooked when implementing changes in an organization even
though the organization has a conduct of ethics and conduct
manuals.
World business organizations are fast changing at an
alarming speed. One of the main factors affecting an effective
implementation of changes in organizations is the issue on
ethics. Change in organization should not be seen as an effort to
profit maximization only, changes is also undertaken to broaden
ethical awareness inside an organization.
During organization change, there will always be resistance to

2. new changes; this is as a result of organization ethical culture.
Upper management and supervisors are also subject to
resistance of change. Addressing ethical issues during a change
can prevent the misuse or abuse of ethical behavior in an
organization.
In the process of implementing change, ethics is often
ignored by the management even though there are several
provisions in an organization’s code of manuals, ethics and
ethical culture. When everything is rapidly changing in the
business environment, ethics should not be the last thing to be
overlooked by the management of an organization. Along with
the changes in the environmental, cultural and business aspect
of an organization, ethics shall come along with these changes.
During the course of change implementation, many organization
faces various ethical issues, some of these includes:
1. Financial crisis
Financial crises are both moral and ethical issues, which
require great changes in terms of applying primary changes in
the manner of thinking and behavior of the higher stratum
management of the organization. Leadership requires
involvement of the leaders first before going down to the lower
level. This principle can be applied when confronting unethical
behaviors within the organizational structure. The higher
management should take first the initiative to resolve issues
involving unethical behaviors or issues that arises as a result of
organization changes.
2. Global warming
This is a worldwide phenomenon that continuously becomes a
challenge to every kind of business. Many organizations think
of ethically suitable solutions to the growing issues of climate
change. But there comes an existing concern on the lack of set
of ethical standards on how to address the issue on global
warming ethically.
3. Globalization
This involves assimilation of different societies, economies and

3. cultures together with their respective regional, moral and
ethical values through global networking in form of
communication. Due to globalization, relevant issues arise
particularly on data security, frontiers, financial wages
corporate social responsibilities and many more.
4. Health and safety
One area of ethical consideration for employees is how to
balance expense control with the health and safety interest of
employees. In organization where employees engage in
physically demanding work should have strong safety standard
that not only meet standards, but also make elimination of
accidents a priority. Even standard office workplace poses
healthy risk to employees who are asked to sit or stand all day.
Unfortunately, certain organization opts to evade on safety
controls, equipment and training to save money. This is both
unethical and potentially damaging in the long run if major.
5. Technology
Advance in technology has resulted in a slew of ethical
dilemmas for organization. Organization leaders have to balance
the privacy and freedom of workers while also maintaining
standards that requires that organization technology use is for
legitimate business purpose. Some organization monitors all
online use of email communication from employee computer.
An organization has this right, but its leaders need to
understand the potential concern about privacy among
employees.
6. Fair working conditions
The general expectation for Organizations is to provide fair
working conditions for their employees in a good environment.
This means that organization is responsible for employee
treatment which include high labor costs and resources
utilization. Benefits for work and Fair pay are the element of
fair workplace. Another element in provision of
nondiscriminatory work environment, which would make there
to have costs involved in diversity management and training.
7. Transparency

4. Accounting scandals and Prominent organization have made it
clear that organization operate with transparency and openness
which includes honest, complete and accurate reporting on the
mandated financial accounting reports. In larger and small
organizations, transparency includes communicating messages
such as making messages which aren’t open in avoidance of
misinterpretation and this clearly represents the intentions of an
organization and its messages. when caught in a lie and
avoiding full disclosure might cause irreparable harm to an
organization.
Conclusion
Resistance to change cannot be avoided especially during
the initial stages of change. One of the alleged reasons is that of
the clash with the values and ethics. This resistance to change
implementation often involves both employees and the
management. According to the research about obedience to
authority showed that there do exist motivational factors of why
people resist change based on the individual desire to act
according to the existing ethical principles in an organization
culture. It is also of great importance to consider that some
perceive threat of career advancement and security can cause
central management to ignore established ethical consideration.
It is therefore imperative to provide instant solutions in solving
ethical issues during the implementation of change in order to
avoid misuse or abuse of behavioral ethics.

5. When an organization tends to contradict uncertainty, the
greater the possibility that the organization may be uncertain in
the future. The reason may be associated with the absence of
autonomous thinking and flexible acting. The key points when
discussing ethics inside an organization are the following:
uncertainty, complexity and vagueness. It is of great importance
that organizations give focus in dealing with, resolving ethical
issues, and address the uncertainty, complexity and vagueness.
It is therefore one of critical concern of the management of
every organization in the integration of these three kinds of
ethics:
· Egoistic ethics or commonly known as first and final
consideration of myself.
· Altruistic ethics or an act of giving while expecting nothing
back.
· Mutualistic ethics or giving something as long as the person is
receiving something in return.
All kind of managerial strategies should take into
consideration the important factors during change
implementation; these are ethical, moral and cultural aspect in
an organization. The management should also consider if any of
the courses of action the organization is about to take are
valuable and helpful in the organization, the employees and the
management itself. If they can take this into consideration, the
change implementation will therefore be much easier. However,
if not then management should expect the existence of ethical
divide and fall down of the organization internally. The success
of change implementation in an organization merely depends on
how the organization ethics back up the implementation.
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