In that
respect, one need look no further for contemporary examples than recent newspaper headlines of corporate ethical violations and executive abuses in business and partisan politics responsible for much of this nation's current economic and geopolitical predicaments (Halbert & Ingulli, 2007; Scheuer, 2004).
Conclusion:
Human psychology is one fundamental determinant of individual behaviors that correspond to professional business management style and conceptual values. Generally,
self-esteem relates profoundly to business management practices at the interpersonal level between managers and subordinates. Whereas business managers with healthy self-esteem tend to have an inherent respect for ethical principles commensurate with their intellectual capacity to understand them, their counterparts with low self-esteem tend to have significantly less respect for ethical principles and to display selective ignorance...
Ultimately, the most significant aspect of the connection between human psychology of the individual and ethical practices arises in connection with the organizational impact of low self-esteem at the executive management level.
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