Comments on: Today Is World Day for Decent Work http://www.todaysworkplace.org/2009/10/07/today-is-world-day-for-decent-work/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:46:42 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Maxwell Pinto http://www.todaysworkplace.org/2009/10/07/today-is-world-day-for-decent-work/comment-page-1/#comment-33837 Maxwell Pinto Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:37:52 +0000 http://www.todaysworkplace.org/?p=2369#comment-33837 Perhaps we can learn from the Japanese, when it comes to dealing with trade unions. Leaders should focus on ethics and the satisfaction of all stakeholders: owners, managers, other employees including women, customers, suppliers, the community, the government, etc. i.e. all parties whose welfare affects the survival and success of the business enerprise, instead of focusing merely on the interests of stockholders and top executives. This will reduce misunderstandings and problems between trade unions and firms. Many leaders are good at talking about ethics, drafting appropriate codes of ethics, and implementing these codes for others to observe, while they themselves are unethical in approach: making false promises and unreasonable demands upon employees, customers, suppliers, etc., being greedy when it comes to remuneration/compensation packages, preventing women from progressing according to merit, and discriminating (unfairly) in other ways. Hopefully, this approach will change, otherwise "ethical leadership" may be considered an oxymoron, rather than a fact. Maxwell Pinto, Business Author: leadership, ethics, teamwork, women in the workforce, trade unions, etc. http://www.strategicbookpublishing.com/Management-TidbitsForTheNewMillenium.html Perhaps we can learn from the Japanese, when it comes to dealing with trade unions. Leaders should focus on ethics and the satisfaction of all stakeholders: owners, managers, other employees including women, customers, suppliers, the community, the government, etc. i.e. all parties whose welfare affects the survival and success of the business enerprise, instead of focusing merely on the interests of stockholders and top executives. This will reduce misunderstandings and problems between trade unions and firms.

Many leaders are good at talking about ethics, drafting appropriate codes of ethics, and implementing these codes for others to observe, while they themselves are unethical in approach: making false promises and unreasonable demands upon employees, customers, suppliers, etc., being greedy when it comes to remuneration/compensation packages, preventing women from progressing according to merit, and discriminating (unfairly) in other ways. Hopefully, this approach will change, otherwise “ethical leadership” may be considered an oxymoron, rather than a fact.

Maxwell Pinto, Business Author: leadership, ethics, teamwork, women in the workforce, trade unions, etc.
http://www.strategicbookpublishing.com/Management-TidbitsForTheNewMillenium.html

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