Managerial hubris and ethical failure at Farrow's Bank

Farrow's Bank -- Case Study On Management Hubris

Case Study on Management Hubris, a report about 1920's Farrow's Bank.

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Characterizing Farrow's Hubris

The steady rise and increase in Farrow's Bank's prominence boosted Farrow's confidence and determination. Farrow stopped seeing himself as just a banker, and became increasingly vocal regarding matters of industrial legislation and national policies. He took liberties by airing his views through the Bank's in-house publications and giving strong opinions on the government's way of doing things and ideas on how to make the British economy a competitive one. This was only the beginning to a more political aspect of his ambitions. In1916, he published more content on tactics and approaches to deal with the coming trade conflict. He preached to the government on how to stay dominant in the market. Farrow's tone of self-importance and boastfulness grew with the expansion of his bank and he increasingly referred to the bank as an establishment entity rather than merely a business. (Hollow, 2014)

Factors leading to Ethical Bankruptcy

Ethical decisions tend to have more far-reaching consequences than those related to commercial/management issues, which is why it is a vital element of any business. Ethical decisions support the foundations of any business, especially for those that depend greatly on public opinion for their success. However, moral awareness in human being is susceptible to flaws and biases that can impair judgment in the best of us, in spite of best intention. Nonetheless, decisions made by humans, generally, are susceptible to systematic as well as predictable mistakes, presumptions, and prejudices that can harm moral consciousness. In order to counter the threat of managerial hubris, managers should constantly work towards the development of diverse and multifaceted executive teams that can offer more than one outlook to a problem and its solution. No one person should be given the authority to manage an institution and the flaws of one can be covered by the collective judgment of an active board of members, limiting or pre-empting the effects of managerial hubris.

To control hubris in the decision making process here are some tips of the trade that are as follows; (Brennan and Conroy, 2013).

• There must be an ability of to look a situation from an outsider's viewpoint.

• A strong capability to accept critique.

• Active board members.

• Incremental information that provides the good data for good decisions.

• Avoid Hubris; a self-deceptive bias subsequent in sub-conscious rational bias in corporate culture.

Conclusion

As a financial institution, Farrows Bank was completely off the industry restraints, following neither legal nor ethical rudiments for their business. However, if the company had followed legal solutions and proceeded with caution instead of a banner of Managerial hubris waving high, the outcome as we studied in the case study could have been entirely different.

Had the founder and manager of the Bank; Thomas Farrow faced some level of censorship and control, the bank could have fared better. Farrow was clearly affected by hubris syndrome. One of the clearer and direct issues with Farrow were his overwhelming concern with his own self-image rather than that of the bank, and a total detachment from reality (Hollow, 2014).