Performance Through Motivation, Ethics and Conflict Management
Johnson & Johnson has more than 250 companies located in 57 countries around the world. The individuals that makeup this company come from a variety of races, religions, creeds and colors. Although these cultural differences are consistent with world locations, one dynamic of Johnson and Johnson remains the same: The Company Credo. The credo states that Johnson and Johnson’s first loyalty is to people that use the company’s product, next to the employees and the community and finally to the stockholders. By stating that the company is less focused on profit and more focused on the safety and fairness to the customers, this proves that Johnson and Johnson and its subsidiaries have ethical motivational principles that make the company a better environment to be a part of.
Ethics in business determine what is right and wrong good or bad. When discussing a business action or transaction three situations will have more than one possible outcome and the best situation must be chosen. Leaders can attack potential ethical problems once they began to think and speak ethically. However, it is still the employee responsibility to act ethically. Lara Nash defines business ethics as “the study of how personal moral norms apply to the activities and goals of commercial enterprise. If it is not a separate moral standard, but a study of how the business context poses its own insight problems for the moral person who acts as a part of the system.” (Weiss, 2006) Employees are generally attracted to ethically responsible organizations. Johnson and Johnson is such an example of a company. With its decentralized style of business J and J embodies 33 separate companies. J and J is an organizatio ...