Is hiring ethical people most important factor in creating and sustaining an ethical organization?
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Is hiring ethical people most important factor in creating and sustaining an ethical organization?
Introduction and thesis statement
Whether hiring ethical people is the most important factor in creating and sustaining an ethical organization is one of the questions that in mind of every manager or an entrepreneur. This is because employees who uphold good and appropriate ethical codes are valuable assets to the organization.
Using different ethical framework and different literature information, this work aims at answering the question as to whether hiring ethical people is the most important factor in creating and sustaining ethical organization. The research would be based on a thesis statement that hiring ethical people is just but a step towards creating and sustaining an ethical organization.
Arguments supporting the thesis
Bad apples and bad barrels principle
The principle of bad apples and bad barrels helps in supporting the fact that hiring ethical people is the most important factor in creating and sustaining an ethical organization. Citing the statement made by psychologist Philiph Zimbardo, Shermer, (2007), in the article 'Bad Apples and Bad Barrels' asserts that that there is a propensity for good and evil in everyone and whether it comes out is a matter of situation. This implies that even of ethical employees are hired and that the situations existing within the organization does not allow them to exercise their ethical section of life, the chances of them changing and becoming unethical.
This suggest that although hiring ethical people can helps in creating ethical workplace, managers and entrepreneurs still need to provide a conducive ethical environment that will enable the ethical employees exercise their good morals. van Mook (2010), in the article , 'Bad apples...