Journal Overview: Management Modelling Behavior - an Important Prerequisite for the Implementation of Business Ethics.

 Journal Review:

Management modelling behavior: An important prerequisite

for the implementation of business ethics

Significant corporate management topics in the face of the new millennium as researchers have agreed would include ethics and ethical behavior and management in a global business environment. The underlying reasons influencing the aforementioned concerns could be attributable to pace of change brought by the variability and/or emergence of new business conditions coupled with public rationale behind quality services, reasonable prices and a fair and honest treatment.

The journal article focuses on corruption in the South African corporate setting and the degree of influence that management has, in its vital role, to curb the aforementioned challenge and its effect, as an entity, to employee decisions and behavior in the workplace.

Conceptually, the framework dealt with the main issue in two phases. The initial phase presents the relationship between individual factors (personality and socialization) and the development of the person’s ethical philosophy and decision-making ideology. Consequently, the second phase reflects organizational factors (influenced by external forces) which affect the person’s ethical belief system. The interactions of these factors eventually lead to ethical/unethical behavior in organizations.

The research findings suggest that individual and situational dimensions influence the corporate behavior. The situational dimension manifested in the organizational climate and the influence of significant others (individual dimension) have important influences on the behavior of employees as indicated. Situational interventions outlined entails an establishment of open corporate communication, an ethical code and setting of clear goals and/or objectives. Leadership by example and exhibiting people skills by management were identified interventions to the individual level.