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Ethics and moral issues see below

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Ethical dilemmas arise when an employees personal ethics, his morals, conflict with the business ethics set by an organization. For example situations have developed where doctors refuse to give abortions because it conflicts with their personal beliefs about terminating a human life. Alternatively, a judge may follow the law and impose the death penalty even though he or she may be personally opposed to it


Such conflicts can be mollified by an organizations culture, and the effect it has on personal idealism and relativism. Ziegenfuss et al (1994) found that personal moral philosophies can be influenced by the ethical environment in an organization. Douglas et al (2001) suggested that organizational ethical culture may modify personal ethical philosophy to conform more closely to the organizational code. High idealistic employees the most likely to experience conflict between personal and business ethics based on any harm that they believe may be caused by the organizations standard for action. However, Jackson et al. (1994) indicated that a well-managed organizational culture could reduce conflict among its employees based on an employees perception of its ethical quality. Thus, organizations that have a highly ethical code of conduct and give incentives for conformity with such code