The Ethics of Managing People

Having worked with many managers in my current job, I have grown a pretty good understanding of a quality manager. Two of the biggest things that I have learned over my time in my position are, to be a successful manager you must be respectful to your employees and you should practice what you preach. Both of these are ethical matters when it comes to those managers whom do not follow these simple rules to success.

Not only is being respectful to your employees going to help flourish your business but it is also a standard everyone should live by, and not only to employees, but to everyone. It should not be a matter of where you stand on the organizational level of a company or the social status of a stranger you have meet, everyone deserves to be treated with respect. Many managers get into positions of authority and begin to push people around. This is not only ethically wrong but it causes a negative moral in the workplace. In my case, in the restaurant business, the employees are the ones who are running the business and angry employees lead to unhappy guests and to organizational failure.

Another major ethically incorrect trait of some managers is to practice what you preach. I have experiences many people in supervision roles that have actually used the saying “do as I say, not as I do.” At this moment you are setting up your employee for failure or even punishment. Especially when a manager’s supervisor is on hand and you are performing a task incorrectly as your manager has; it is likely that employee will be punished for doing their job incorrectly, when they were actually just doing what they may believe is okay. Successful managers will always lead by example.