Ethical_Employee's

Mentoring To Develop Ethical Employees Business ethics is one of the key instruments demonstrated by positive mentoring and developing employees in companies today. It has been defined that business ethics or ethical behavior is illustrated by high standards and is characterized by demonstrating honesty, fairness and fair play in professional, academic and professional relationships. It is also identified that ethical behaviors are the essential layouts of dignity, diversity and even rights of either a group of people or an individual. With this being said, being in a position of high status, you need to exemplify great ethical leadership. Mentoring and developing an employee in today’s market is the one of several ways in becoming an effective great role model of proper business ethics and their behaviors. I totally believe any CEOs, COOs, CFOs, or senior executive can mentor junior members, because they should be able to go to them when they want or need help and be able to learn and make sure the job is done right and complete. When mentoring I feel as though people in these top positions should be looked upon as people with real character and believe they will get things done. Let us take a look at Carol Tome a CFO of Home Depot in a small town in Wyoming. She stated after completing graduate school, if it wasn’t for the great and wonderful mentors in her life both personally and professionally that made positive influences on personal and business ethics then she wouldn’t have been the great leader she has became, today. It is definitely important and essential that individuals in executive position become great and influential mentors of junior employees. At my place of employment there is a motto sign in my Director’s office that says “‘Leading with Integrity’: ethical leadership- a fundamental principle of integrity and good governance.” It took me forever to understand that and now I get it. It’s the achievement of effective leadership and the objectives of good governance and ethical behavior. This is a great key point in the success of the company, senior executive and the junior member who is learning day in and day out the imperative focus of ethical behavior for a business. (Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart, & Wright, 2009) Well can someone of higher power like a CFO place higher priority on ethical behavior and assist me to meet higher ethical standards' I will have to say yes. Reason is because the very most important thing anyone must remember is that at all times it is the duty for both of us to serve the best interest of our company. I don’t see anything wrong with illustrating a high standard of professional integrity, truthfulness in any financial activities including documents, statements and etc…. in order to build and inspire a certain level of trust with senior executives like the CFO and myself. I found and read the following that interest me: “Today's standard of leadership--influencing human behavior in an environment of uncertainty--is dauntingly difficult to teach. Ronald Heifetz, a professor at Harvard's Kennedy school of government, argues that instead of telling people what to do, real leaders focus on helping people find their own way through "adaptive challenges"--problems without readily apparent solutions. Jim Collins, author of Built to Last, reports that companies that succeed long term stick passionately to a set of values and create systems that get employees to act in accord with those values. Says he: "Companies that take an architectural approach, putting in mechanisms to produce the right kind of behavior, don't need to look outside for leaders." (Stratford, 1995) I feel as though the HR department could do a lot to assist developing financial executives who are ethical leaders and mentors by working effectively with each other towards impactful changes for the better for the organization. I also believe HR could maintain a type of focus on what’s important rather than what is urgent. I mean being able to help develop finance executives’ ideas and practices in ethical behavior will in the long run pay off for the company. After reading the textbook I found that having a strategic and solid action plan that comprehends to financial information is a key asset that can be considered immediate framework for any level of financial executives including CFO and even CEOs. (Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart, & Wright, 2009) Training methods play a great part in ethical behavior. I would recommend two training methods I feel as though could assist anyone by identifying both On-The-Job Training by apprenticeship and behavior modeling. According to the textbook both of these training methods suggests that they are the most effective way of making sure ethical behaviors are taught correctly and implemented. On-The-Job Training by apprenticeship is key because of the methodology behind the science of taught job skills through a combination of structured and classroom training. It is more like a buddy-jack system. Behavior modeling is definitely a training method I feel would assist in making sure those ethical behaviors can be full-filled. I think that the day-to-day company’s performances are compelled by these training methods and that there are little time or tendency to redirect attention to the moral content of organizational business ethics. I know for a fact that training is relevant for ethical behaviors because problems within companies will continue if proper training isn’t implemented and enforced correctly. For me the great concern for adequate training for ethical behaviors is when things are measured and aligned that can potentially and positively impact for the better of the success for the business and be able to illustrate a consistent training and development program for both senior executives and junior members. (Noe et al., 2009) As I conclude I want to reminisce on the importance of corporate ethical behaviors. Most businesses, I believe, try to outline their senior executives as being ethical and demonstrate a sense of leadership that would be infectious and comprehensive to lower employees. Leadership should be looked at as being trustworthy and honest. Having a proper level of ethical behavior for any business is essential and important for proper growth of the business and awareness of positive influences. It doesn’t really matter being that of a COO, CEO or even the CFO, we all are expected to be seen as great citizens and leaders or should be demonstrating a character of higher standards for ethical behaviors. We all need to commit and succeed in this area and trust that ethics isn’t taken advantage of and misused by any means necessary for we are all mentors and we can all teach, train and learn from one another. Ethical behaviors are what is expected of us personally and professionally and we all can MAKE IT COUNT!!! Reference Noe, R., Hollenbeck, J., Gerhart, B., & Wright, P. (2009). Fundamentals of human resource management (3rd ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin. Stratford, S. (1995). Leadership coaching. How tomorrow's leaders are learning their stuff, , . Wilbert, C. (2007, May). 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