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Ethics and decision making can many times get in the way of one another. In a business environment it is imperative that the business customers are assured that strong moral decisions are made by said business. In order to understand the ethical decision making the three types of moral character in reference to managers must be addressed. The three types will be outlined in the next few paragraphs.
Management scholar Archie B. Carroll draws a distinction between the three management types when it comes to morality (Organizational Behavior, 9E). The first is the immoral manager. The immoral manager is simply looking out for their best interest. The immoral manager will not let anything stand in between their own prescribed end result. A good example of this type of manager would be any number of upper echelon managers that worked at ENRON. These managers kept stretching the truth further and further for their own best interest, with the end result being thousands of employees and shareholders losing everything they had vested in the company when the company folded after it was found out that upper management was moving money around illegally, and giving false reports of the companies success. When we speak of ethics in business this is not want we want to become. Immoral managers may win a few battle, but the war will be lost.
The second type of manager in reference to morality is the amoral manager. The amoral manager makes decisions with their gut. Sometimes they make the proper ethical decision and other times they make unethical decisions, but in contrast to the immoral manager the amoral manager does not make any unethical decisions intentionally. Because a amor ...