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Business Ethics: Organizational Communication System

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Business Ethics: Organizational Communication System

Introduction

Business ethics refers to a particular code of conduct or rather professional behavior,

which examines the moral principles that arise in a given business environment. It is a decisive,

structured evaluation of how best stakeholders of organizations among them the employees, the

executives, the suppliers, and the customers of a firm should act in a business setting. Primarily,

the principles of business ethics apply to every aspect of business conduct, and are vital to the

moral uprightness of all individuals in the entire organization. They further play a significant role

in the examination of suitable constraints in attempts to attain self-interest or enhanced

profitability in the operations of the firm, especially when they involve other stakeholders of the

organization such as customers. (Shaw 86)

This paper will comprehensively analyze effective communication systems as an

important component of business ethics. It is a given that communication is the foundation on

which all the operations of an organization are built. It as well definite that communication is the

platform on which the executives of the firm discuss the best organizational policies for the

diverse departments of their operations, and then pass them over to the employees under the

supervision of different departmental managers. It also enables the involvement of employees in

the management of the organization and facilitates the sharing of concerns between the firm and

their external stakeholders such as the government authorities, shareholders, suppliers, and

customers.

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BUSINESS ETHICS 2

The Analysis of Organizational Communication System as a Component of Business

Ethics

Organizational communication system plays an enormous role in the determination of the

general performance of a company, firm, or business enterprise. It is common knowledge that

every workplace that has two or more people require that they share concerns, opinions,

strategies, ideas, and so on in order to work in unity and collaboration. With that, it is certain that

all businesses across the world involve an interaction between two or more persons. On the very

least, that is, among the smallest units of business operations, then it will involve the

entrepreneur or the owner of the business and his or her customers. On the other hand, all

established businesses or firms often have different departments of operations, which work

collectively to achieve specific targets set by the management of the organization. Additionally,

such firms include the services of other vital stakeholders like the suppliers, shareholders,

government authorities, and the customers. For all these people to effective coordinate and

perform their duties as expected of them to the firm, communication is fundamental. (Weiss 13)

The executive of the organization, who are usually the policy makers of the firm, must

always have regular meetings on which they determine the way forward of the firm. They must

conduct detailed research on how the want their business to look like, and then proceed to set the

mission, vision, values, and most importantly, policies of the firm. Such meetings include

consultation with different specialists in the diverse sectors of business operations such as the

financial, human resource, supplies and procurement, risk control, and several other specialists

that are of importance to the activities of the organization. All these activities are made possible

through communication. It is completely impossible for such a group of key members of a firm

to perform their duties effectively without communication. Simultaneously, an organization

without management policies, set long-term goals, and well-defined procedures of policy

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Name: Instructor: Task: Date: Business Ethics: Organizational Communication System Introduction Business ethics refers to a particular code of conduct or rather professional behavior, which examines the moral principles that arise in a given business environment. It is a decisive, structured evaluation of how best stakeholders of organizations among them the employees, the executives, the suppliers, and the customers of a firm should act in a business setting. Primarily, the principles of business ethics apply to every aspect of business conduct, and are vital to the moral uprightness of all individuals in the entire organization. They further play a significant role in the examination of suitable constraints in attempts to attain self-interest or enhanced profitability in the operations of the firm, especially when they involve other stakeholders of the organization such as customers. (Shaw 86) This paper will comprehensively analyze effective communication systems as an important component of business ethics. It is a given that communication is the foundation on which all the operations of an organization are built. It as well definite that communication is the platform on which the executives of the firm discuss the best organizational policies for the diverse departments of their operations, and then pass them over to the employees under the supervision of different departmental managers. It also enables the involvement of employees in the management of the organization ...
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