Ethics, Organization and Ethical Moral Values in Organizational Context

• Autor(a) principal: Dias, Maria Olívia
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.7559/gestaoedesenvolvimento.2014.259

This article reflects over a number of ethical questions, aiming some considerations that allow to understand how ethics and its principles are connected and evolve in the practice of organizational actions and human behaviour. The ethical but also anti-ethical behaviours appear in a guided speech towards relations between participants and consequences to success or failure of people and organizations. More and more we speak of ethics, moral, citizenship and values in all institutions whether they are enterprises, government, social solidarity and others, all aiming for justice and people’s rights. The basis for ethics is in people, in their essence nature as human beings, their conscience and dignity. This article analysis at first the grounds for ethics and organizations; second the dimension of ethical-moral values; third ethics as an expression of human rights; fourth the way we see the creation of a speech around ethics and organizations and last, the fifth argument looks to seek for an approach to the importance of ethical codes in organizations. From the systematic review of literature was possible to underline the relevance of ethics when practiced by members of an organization. The principles connected to ethics: justice, honesty, truth, respect, dignity and human rights are often violated by the organizations in prejudice of people. Ethics is not only individual but general. It is in this context of arguments that we compelled that ethical challenges can contribute for a reflexive discussion of ethical-moral values in organizations.