Describe what influences Dilbert’s Ethical Decision making?
Dilbert didn’t influence by self-interest and the powers. Although he was in a quandary
about whether to get the love from a beautiful woman or not, he finally made an ethical
decision that followed his heart–taking the ethical guns, and making an impartial Internet
Voting Network Program.
In today’s business world, many studies show bad results about the state of ethics, a large
percentage of people admitted that they had done some unethical or illegal act in the past
years. However, most managers and employees want an ethical workplace. Therefore,
understanding what influences us on making ethical decision and how to built an ethical
workplace are becoming more important for today’s companies!
Connecting our textbook with the cartoon, firstly, when top manager requires all middle
mangers taking ethical training class, the top manager excludes himself from the training
class; however, to establishing ethical standards for company, manager must sponsor and
be involved in ethics and compliance training in order to create an ethical company
culture, so ethical training class should be taken by all managers whether they have the
power or not. In additional, when the top manager taking money from the governor, he
lacks the social responsibility to the primary stakeholder: government. That makes a big
potential problem for the company: when other stakeholders such as customers and local