Book Review # 1

Title: “Business Ethics, A Guide for Managers”

Author: Elizabeth P. Tierney

HF 5387 T43 1996

This book provides some guidelines on how to handle staffs. There are given values for training and teaching in handling employees. It emphasized some important ethical decision-making process that the company can elucidate and rationalize regarding on the character you’ll participate in an ethical atmosphere. I quoted some important statements on the book which can be helpful to us.

CHAPTER 1 - “Why Create an Ethical Working Environment?”

”Whatever the scope or nature of the admonitions or expectations, presumably you were expected to work according to them”

The statement says to us that in whatever work we have, it has a condition in which we have to follow. For example, as a student, we are required to pass assignments and projects on time and if not there is a consequence that will happen. In business ethics, we are required to do things because it is not just a law, it is a golden rule that must be applied to in any field that we do. Values is very important, as we grow old, we’ll learn more values because of our experiences that brought to us right now.

CHAPTER 2 – “Why Do People Make Unethical Decisions?”

“As people, each of us is a unique combination of our heredity, environment, abilities, talents and experiences”

            We are unique individuals. Each of us has talents and skills that other persons do not have. We have different needs and experiences. We live by rules and experiences. These things help us to improve our daily lives by gaining new knowledge on how to live life to the fullest. We are influenced also by the atmosphere that we live in. With these, we are molded into great individuals depending on the culture that we used to live in. these is where we get our values from.

CHAPTER 3 – “What Does Unethical Behavior Cost?”

“It is difficult to have pride in your own work if you are given no responsibility or are not trusted to be committed to doing a job well”

            Doing your job well is very important among managers. Even you’re still a child, your parents always told you do things properly so that when you grow old, you’ll know how to act properly and do things in a good way. As we grow old, it is already a part of our upbringing. We tend to focus on things that are we are responsible of. It is our own dignity when we do things that we are trusted of.