The Morality and Ethics of the Occupation
In any occupation, morality and ethics affect the stability of the occupation; the seller and the buyer must have both morality and ethics to each other in order to join together in this business.
Morality refers to the condition of virtue.
Ethics refers to the acceptable behavior.
Therefore, morality and ethics refer to well-behaved both in manners, speaking, and mind. The behavior should honestly and naturally be conducted. Most people accept the morality and ethics through the following
Responsibility
Responsibility refers to realizing the task without giving in and can manage it until it is successful. In addition, that person has to be circumspect in work, have good intention, involving in working with others to meet the target of the organization. Since people must live and work together in the organization, they have to adjust their behaviors and attitudes towards others in order to encourage them to work under the regulation with respecting other people’s right and do their duty with responsibilities and honesty. People with responsibility can work to the target
without any difficulty. Therefore, in order to successfully meet the target, it is essential to create responsibility in the organization resulting in benefits for the organization for the following reasons.
1. The organization will be trusted and relied on from the colleagues as well as others.
2. The task will be successful in time in any changeable situation.
3. It can cause more confidence among the people in the organization since the task can successfully be done.
4. The organization is stable and recognized from others.
5. The organization is successful causing development and stability
6. The task can smoothly be done with everyone’s cooperation.
Code of Conduct and Bossiness Owner’s Characteristics
Significant ways of thinking
Business is an activity involved with other organizations especially the consumer since business must depend on them to buy merchandise and service. Similarly, the consumers must rely on various types of business to produce products and service to meet the needs of them. Therefore, business owner must have code of conduct which includes honesty, morality and responsibility to the people involved. If business owners have all aforementioned characteristics suitable for each business, they will certainly succeed in their business.
The Significance of the Code of Conduct
Business owners or businessman take important roles in social and economic development, so a businessman must set a good example causing faith and acceptance from the society to this occupation.
The code of conduct of business owner should be as follows:
1. To the consumers: the consumers are the most important groups of people who affect the stability of business since the consumers are the persons who buy the merchandise or service resulting in benefit in business income causing business growth. Hence, business owners must be honest to their customers with ethics and code of conduct.
Business owners should do the followings:
1. Fairly sell the merchandise and service to the customers with responsibility
concerning the agreement involved.
2. Do not do any activity resulting in higher price unreasonable such as storing the
merchandise making it short in supply causing higher price.
3. Have all the customers get equal service in any condition even when they are
short of merchandise in the market.
2. Code of Conduct to Business Rivals
In running all types of business, there are more than one business owner, so there are high competitions in making their own business progressing; competitions help develop business as well as the capability of business owners.
Business owners should do the following to the business rivals
1. Do not treat badly to business rivals such as accusing them in order to make them
lose opportunities or cutting the price for getting more sales.
2. Help initiate good activities for the society such as cooperation in prevention of
environmental resource and environmental condition.
3. Do not inappropriately search for business rivals’ secret
4. Avoid any deed which will destroy the reputation of the products or service of the rivals.
3. Code of conduct to Government Sectors
Business owners must get contact with government sectors which are one of the sectors in the society such as paying tax, registering for business, so they should clearly understand the right way to deal with government sectors.
To deal with government sectors, business owners should do the following:
1. Follow the government’s regulations.
2. Cooperate with the government sectors as normal citizen.
3. Do not offer the government officer a bribe.
4. Have good and right attitudes towards the government sectors.
4. Code of conduct to employees.
Employees are valuable resources of business owners. If business owners have
industrious diligent and honest workers, they can effectively make progress in their business.
What business owners should conduct to their employees are as follows:
1. pay appropriate amount with fringe benefits and do not take any advantage them.
2. Train their employees with new technology in order to gain more effectiveness to
work.
3. Set the sanitary environment suitable for work for the sake of employees’ health and lives. In addition, working places should be equipped with the equipment to protect the workers from danger which may happen resulting in encouraging the workers to effectively work.
4. Treat all employees impartially and should equally be promoted.
5. Let each employee have a chance to show their capability.
6. Appropriately give them advice and assistance both at work and in person.
7. Establish the employees’ ways of thought and disciplinary proceedings making them see the value of them.
5. Code of Conduct to the Society and the Environment
Due to the fact that a society is composed of a great number of different individuals, each of them can be different in habit, education and religion, so peaceful society results from everyone’s cooperation and creative thinking. Business owners are a part of the society who must take responsibility to the society for the future progress.
Business Owners should do the following for the Society and Environment:
1. Avoid any business which causes deteriorating to the society and environment inmorality, ways of life, and mind such as starting gambling business, entertainment
club with drug selling or prostitution or buying illegal matters.
2. Avoid any business to destroy nature and environment such as business with letting waste water in the rivers or the canals, or business which causes smoke or dust spreading in the atmosphere, destroying forests, or trespassing in public places.
3. Cooperate with every sector in order to enhance society creation for developing the quality of life such as educational development; raising funds, supporting research, and public service.
4. Use natural resources by not destroying natural resources such as not doing fishery in forbidden areas or seasons.
5. Try to compensate used natural resources by recycling them such as recycling the paper used newspapers.
6. Always keep and develop the standard of business in order to get rid of dangers which may affect environment.
7. Run a business and produce appropriate products or service to save and benefit the society and human beings.
Activity
Have the learners indicate morality and ethics concerning agricultural occupation and explain briefly.