Why do you think ethical principles are important in the workplace? Explain
According to the textbook, ethics are the standards of right and wrong that influence
behavior (Kinicki, & Williams, 2012 p.78). The attended section also teaches that ethics are the
standards of right or wrong that influence behavior. Ethical behavior universally recognized as
doing the right thing, as opposed to the wrong thing. (Kinicki, & Williams, 2012). Ethnical
principles are very important in the workplace as they define the way a company, its employees
and representatives, as well as it individual business unit behalves. This is very important as
these ethics are the way that your employees, customers and even society perceives you or your
company to operate. Ethical principles help guide people to make the best decisions and help
establish the criteria in which you will be judged by others. If a company did not have ethical
principles, they could lose respect and credibility and could be seen, or perceived by others as
