Management By Walking Around: Ethical Dilemma In Business

Ethical Dilemma In Business Ethical wrongdoing is a problem in the real world wherein the rules can be bent to manipulate financial standing. In some organizations such as Lehman Brothers, we will take a look at how they were able to alter real information that was damaging to the company in such a way to make it look more secure. Before these things can happen the upper management must discontinue listening to their employees and even punish the ones that speak up about issues in the workplace. Slowly an organization can slip into a level of deception and manipulation that can only be alleviated by the eventual bankruptcy of the organization.

Mr. Lee's Concerns Ethical concerns of how business is performed can cause uncomfortable feelings

Sensing is a very important aspect of deterring unethical behavior. A sensing mechanism can be a hotline, employee comments box, webpage or any other way that information can be relayed to management (Jennings, 2012, p. 291). Sensing can aid in the analysis of how the needed objectives can be achieved (Martens, & Day, 1999). The use of anonymous third party computer systems or hotlines are the bare minimum to give employees in situations involving possibly inflammatory whistle-blowing (Jennings, 2012, p. 291). The use of Management By Walking Around (MBWA) is a process involving higher management to involve themselves in day to day business (Jennings, 2012, p. 292). This gives an insight that these executives would not otherwise have, gaining information about what the standard employee feels about the work, workplace, and fellow employees. Without this, the executive could easily stay busy in the office and stay secluded but this would be detrimental to the inflow of information from the frontlines (Jennings, 2012, p. 292). The executives should understand their employees to best plan future policies and procedure. This would require the use of a functional system of sensing