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Article
Importance of Ethical Principles for Eco-friendly Management
Author(s)
Abdullah Karataş
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DOI:10.17265/1537-1514/2015.06.002
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Abdullah Karataş, Ph.D., assistant professor, Vocational School of Social Sciences, Department of Management and Organization, Niğde University, Niğde, Turkey.
ABSTRACT
To survive and maintain their presence, organizations should serve their community successfully. Such a service requires an ethical perspective which promotes the community interest and welfare. At this point, managers have great responsibilities, because managers are in a very important position in which they determine the ways to serve the community with the basic strategies. However, it is clear that the managers who focus just on the profit but disregard environmental values will give wrong messages to the community. Organizations, contributing to environmental problems with their activities, causing pollution, and damaging environment with their products and services, will lose their reputation and adversely affect their future in course of time. Today, harmful behaviors and pressures of organizations towards environment are on the basis of the global environmental issues and this situation adversely affects the future of all living things. Organization managers should consider not only their own interests but also environmental values and they should raise their employees’ environmental awareness via education programs. In this regard, ethical principles will be able to guide the organization managers. The managers who configure their organizations in accordance with ethical principles and respect environmental values can open the doors of their organization to success and opportunities and as a result they will be good examples to the whole society with their environmentally friendly activities. In this theoretical study, organizations’ responsibility in protecting their environment and importance of ethical principles for the environmentally friendly management will be emphasized. According to the literature survey, ethical principles are needed for an eco-friendly management and managers are the key factors to apply these principles.
KEYWORDS
organization managers, ethical principles, environment, environmental issues
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