Saudi Journal of Business and Management Studies (SJBMS)
Volume-2 | Issue-08 | 763-769
Review Article
The Benefits and Challenges of Documenting Desired Ethical Behaviour within the Workplace
Nasrin Sultana Siddiqua
Published : Aug. 30, 2017
Abstract
In the 21st century, global business has emerged as a powerful and foremost driver of economic growth.
Business supply mass demand for both consumer and industrial goods and services. The last few decades have also
witnessed an increasingly rapid rush for greater productivity and profitability unparalleled with any other time in history.
The main metric of measuring business performance is thus profit. However, in this day and age, business ethics has been
sidelined by many businesses owners and their employees. For many businesses, the ends justify the means, and
unethical practices are often looked upon as merely a business decision that needs to be made to meet sales targets or
achieve organisational results. Thus for many ethics is overlooked on a daily basis in favour of other worldly ideals. The
practice of business documentation may however hold a key to reviving ethical business practice. With an increasingly
rapid trend towards documentation and Quality Assurance in the business world, the development of a document
pertaining to ethical business practice might just be a feasible solution to introducing business ethics as an important
metric of performance in line with productivity. However, in order for this to be achieved, the business organisation must
carefully avoid the challenging obstacles the might hamper their attempts to develop an ethics charter for their
organisation. However, if they are successful, the rewards might greatly outweigh the costs.