LOYALTY, ETHICAL BEHAVIOUR

AND ETHICAL DECISION

MAKING
What is Loyalty?
 It mean to standby, stick up for and protect
your family, friends, school and country.
Loyalty is a special moral responsibility to
promote and protect the interest of others.
This duty goes beyond the normal obligation
we all share to care for others.
 LOYALTY
• Agency loyalty
 Is an obligation to fullfill his/her contractual duties to the
employer
 For engineers, the paramount obligation is still “the safety ,
health and welfare of the public”.
• Identification loyalty
 Is concerned with attitudes, emotions and a sense of personal
identity.
 Is a more virtue than an obligation
What is Ethcis?
Ethics is the study of what is mean to “do the
right thing”
Ethics rules are followed in our interactions
with other people
Ethics theories goal:
-Enhance human dignity , peace ,happiness
What is Ethical Behaviour?
 Ethical behaviour mean:
 Knowing the difference between right and
wrong
 Consciously choosing to do right.
Four Views of Ethical Behaviour
Individualism View
Does a decision or behaviour promote
one’s long-term self-interests?

Moral Right View Utilitarian View

Does a decision or behaviour Does a decision or behaviour
maintain the fundamental do the greatest good for the
right of all human beings? most people?

Justice View
Does a decision or behaviour show
fairness and impartiality?
Ethical Decision
• Ethical Decision Making Process is the
processes of choosing the best alternative
for achieving the best result or outcomes
compliance with individual and social
values, moral, and regulation.
What is The Relation Between Ethics and Decision-
Making?

• Ethics exits as a means of making decisions

about issues of good and bad, right and wrong.
• Decision – making is informed by ethics.
• Ethics decision are difficult to make and
require research and hard work.
Framework For Understanding Ethical
Decision Making in Business

Ethical
Intensity
Business
Individual Ethics Ethical or
Factor Evalutions& Unethical
Intentions Behaviour
Organizational
Factor

Opportunity
The Ethical Decision Making Process
• This decision making process allow administrator to put aside
personal feeling and interests.
• This process force an administrator to consider all the angles
of a decision and also the impact that the decision will have
on individual , as well as groups, involved
• The ethical decision making process carefully examines the
outcomes, benefits and consequences of the decision to be
made.
Done By
Riswan E
MBA 1ST YEAR