Which is more important, ethics or success? Why?
”Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.” --Mary Kay Ash
To answer this question I believe in order to have true success with no interuptions there takes a bit of ethics while handling a firm. Success should be counted on how one got to a point, not the end result or how they got there in one instant. Usually the team that plays the fair game and plays efficiently is the team that is going to win, but I believe it to be an issue within our society that there is always a secret passage, or an "in" so to speak. Someone may know someone to get them a postition or they may benefit from certain details. In the end though success rests upon the ethics that were involved.
Ethics within a business are not always played out and it is common within the business world that a leader within a business simply wants to get ahead and beat out the competitor, the way they beat the competitor does not matter as long as they get the business and profits. It is evident within our everyday world that there are thousands of companies in competition with one another and they all look for ways to beat the competitior, do they establish ethics within their drive to succeed? Some do, but others could care less. What is more efficient to find success, ethics or no ethics?
The glue that holds a true successful business together is ethics. Without it there is no trust between employee and boss, there is no ground of true customer service, and there is no room for there to be success for the business is being ran in a corrupt manner that is not beneficial to the company as a whole.
"Developing a code of business ethics will not stop unethical behavior but it will give people something to think about, a measurement against which to assess their behavior." Jaqueline Dunkal, author of Good Ethics, Good Business: Your Plan for Success states, "Ethical standards promote trust between a company and its customers as well as its employees, tells how to develop a code of ethics, and discusses the implementation and maintenance of an ethics program."
Leadership within a company must hold the value of ethics very high in order to have success."A wise business man will not seek advantage to the point where he generates dangerous hostility among employees, competitors, customers, government, or the public at large. But the decisions in this area are, in the final test, decisions of strategy and not of ethics" (Walton 18). The leader of a company knows what must happen to create true success. ”Integrity is the first step to true greatness." Success must be able to be seen and evaluated through honesty, integrity, and equality.
"The purpose of ethics in business is to direct business men and women to abide by a code of conduct that facilitates, if not encourages, public confidence in their products and services." It is evident that within the world of successful businesses its leader is the key establishment for ethics and its success. The leader of a company, in order to truly obtain success, must establish honesty, integrity, equality, knowledge, and many other ethical characteristics into his/her business and employees. Success is about the ethics in which are held within the business, it should not be about one or the other, but rather when both are utilized,. Only then can true success be reached.
Dunkan, Jaqueline.Good Ethics, Good Business: Your Plan for Success. Self-Counsel Press Inc. 1989
Walton, Clarence. Education, Leadership and Business Ethics: Essays on the Work of Clarence Walton. Springer:1998
”Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.” --Mary Kay Ash
To answer this question I believe in order to have true success with no interuptions there takes a bit of ethics while handling a firm. Success should be counted on how one got to a point, not the end result or how they got there in one instant. Usually the team that plays the fair game and plays efficiently is the team that is going to win, but I believe it to be an issue within our society that there is always a secret passage, or an "in" so to speak. Someone may know someone to get them a postition or they may benefit from certain details. In the end though success rests upon the ethics that were involved.
Ethics within a business are not always played out and it is common within the business world that a leader within a business simply wants to get ahead and beat out the competitor, the way they beat the competitor does not matter as long as they get the business and profits. It is evident within our everyday world that there are thousands of companies in competition with one another and they all look for ways to beat the competitior, do they establish ethics within their drive to succeed? Some do, but others could care less. What is more efficient to find success, ethics or no ethics?
The glue that holds a true successful business together is ethics. Without it there is no trust between employee and boss, there is no ground of true customer service, and there is no room for there to be success for the business is being ran in a corrupt manner that is not beneficial to the company as a whole.
"Developing a code of business ethics will not stop unethical behavior but it will give people something to think about, a measurement against which to assess their behavior." Jaqueline Dunkal, author of Good Ethics, Good Business: Your Plan for Success states, "Ethical standards promote trust between a company and its customers as well as its employees, tells how to develop a code of ethics, and discusses the implementation and maintenance of an ethics program."
Leadership within a company must hold the value of ethics very high in order to have success."A wise business man will not seek advantage to the point where he generates dangerous hostility among employees, competitors, customers, government, or the public at large. But the decisions in this area are, in the final test, decisions of strategy and not of ethics" (Walton 18). The leader of a company knows what must happen to create true success. ”Integrity is the first step to true greatness." Success must be able to be seen and evaluated through honesty, integrity, and equality.
"The purpose of ethics in business is to direct business men and women to abide by a code of conduct that facilitates, if not encourages, public confidence in their products and services." It is evident that within the world of successful businesses its leader is the key establishment for ethics and its success. The leader of a company, in order to truly obtain success, must establish honesty, integrity, equality, knowledge, and many other ethical characteristics into his/her business and employees. Success is about the ethics in which are held within the business, it should not be about one or the other, but rather when both are utilized,. Only then can true success be reached.
Dunkan, Jaqueline.Good Ethics, Good Business: Your Plan for Success. Self-Counsel Press Inc. 1989
Walton, Clarence. Education, Leadership and Business Ethics: Essays on the Work of Clarence Walton. Springer:1998
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