On The Morality Construction Of Business Managers In Our Country

The development of the market economy has made it obvious that market economy is not as perfect as Adam Smith had thought. Due to the limitations of the law system, it is reasonable to say that a economy without moral cannot be efficient. As the collection of persons who are engaged in labor division and cooperation, the ethicality of enterprises ultimately depends on the ethicality of its members. Particularly, the ethical orientation of the managers is the key factor to promote the ethicality of the enterprises and to create ethical corporation culture.Topics of the research on the moral issues of managers can be grouped into four categories:(1) to get an idea of the moral status quo of managers in China;(2) to establish the codes of ethics for managers;(3) to explore the mechanism that the ethicality of managers affects the ethical behavior of the entire enterprise;(4) to explore the mechanism to improve on the moral status of managers. Compared to the other three problems, the fourth problem is relatively short of research, thus becomes the research question of this paper.On the micro level, moral is a kind of practice that individuals guard and guide their own behavior according to certain moral belief. This paper analyses the ethical decision making process based on the issue-contingent model of ethical decision making.Suggestions are given to improve the ethicality of the decision making of the business managers based on the ethical decision making model:(1) to ensure a transition from 'maximization of profit' to 'stakeholder' in management philosophy;(2) to make clear the relationship between the business ethics and the individual ethics so to establish the moral agent status of individual;(3) to strengthen the Confucian business values of 'social responsibility' and 'kindness' ; (4) to make use of the supervision and orientation function of public sense of morality; (5) to create an environment to facilitate the development of moral cognition of business managers; (6) to complement the construction of economy and law institutions.