This essay is about the role of ethics and social responsibility in management.

Principles of Management Dec. 15, 2001 A Role of Ethics and Social Responsibilities in Management. Ethics can be defined as a process of evaluating actions according to moral principal of values (A.Alhemoud). Throughout the centuries people were trying to choose between profit and moral. Perhaps, some of them obtain both, but every time it could have roused ethical issues. Those issues concern fairness, justice, rightness or wrongness; as a result it can only be resolved according …

…particular solution for all of these issues. There is only hope that ethical standards and social responsibilities will guide every manager throughout his or her career. ?Professional conduct should be governed by a code of ethics that reflects positively on the practitioner and managerial profession. Simply stated, nothing should prevent a manager from maintaining high ethical standards and social responsibility in the quest for high performance and quality? (Frank Lalli "A Question of Professional Ethics").