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Of course I'm ethical! (improving corporate ethics)

Journal of Systems Management

| July 01, 1995 | Plenert, Gerhard | COPYRIGHT 1995 John Carroll University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Ethics is the buzzword of the future. But do we really understand what is required of us to become ethical managers? This article suggests techiques that will help sustain ethical leadership, and increase the ethics level of employees.

Buzzwords change dramatically with time. First it was Milton Friedman who said "Profit" is the only goal of a business (Primaeux & Stieber, 1994). The "profit" buzzword soon became "human resource management" allowing us to somehow think we were a little more humane.

Next, when Japan started to dominate most of Western industry, it became "productivity," and then "quality." It seems all you need to do is get on the buzzword ...

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