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UNETHICAL ISSUES OF AMAZON

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one who studies ethical leadership, I have reached a best conclusion for the leadership of Jeff Bezos of Amazon.

Yes, stories and blog posts suggest (blue-collar) workers and some (white-collar) workers are not treated very well. If that is the case, so Bezos will have to deal with union's and higher-than-desired turnover. Some feel these stories indicate that Bezos is not leading from an ethical perspective, one that advances human welfare.

But Bezos is actually excelling at one thing, I hold people in formal leadership roles accountable for. To lead ethically, one must leave no doubt's about expectations and values, and I believe Bezos is clarifying the Amazon culture for the people who work there, and employees can take it or leave it.

Many of us, included me, may find that the culture Amazon’s founding that CEO is growing in his company petri dish to be unappealing. Have said that, it doesnt render his leadership unethical.

Compliments of regulatory responses to everything from ( Enron ) to the Great Recession, lots of organizations now have programs to define and encourage ethical behavior, including codes of conduct and training of All good. But they do not have culture makeing.

Based on what I have read in the news and other online posts, Bezos has set tone, captured ethical principle's in writing and encouraged certain practices. He has also rebutted recent negative(-) news coverage, calling out the Amazon practices he thinks should be changed.

While Amazon’s leader has admitted some rare unethical practices actually happen , he call's them callous - he’s moving past that quickly. By doing so, he is at least clarifying what, in his opinion, should fly or not fly at Amazon.

He does not believe that, based on what he wrote,  people being treated without empathy during family crises is a sound management technique  . He thinks it should stop, and he encourages people to bring such instance to the attention of Amazon’s HR department .

Sure, he sent the letter out over the weekend but by now we all know that Amazon has a round-the-clock culture , very much in line with the business this is in.

One of the most important and ethical action's someone with leadership responsibility can do for employees is help them know what is expected and how things are to be done.

Some cultures have high integrity, what is written about the values and practices jive,s with the way things happen. There is less work for leaders to do around clarifying culture in those companies. Employees can quickly determine if their values align with the company they are part of that and how the company’s business is accomplished. HR people call this 'fit' .

Whatever one thinks of Amazon, CEO is striving to hire people that are a good fit for the company and vice versa .The nature of the relationship's between employees and organizations has changed . We now have layoffs , the evaporation of defined-benefit pension's and the rise of independent contractor's with no benefits at all.

Each change shifts the power of the relationships . Loyalty is not the value it once was in the workplace, on other side of the equation and that’s a trade off working people have to manage.There are companie's where value statements don’t live with workplace practices. Most of us are not , but we might manage a defined group of people's, and we can have an even greate impact than the CEO by helping employers see clearly what the culture is actually , and thus help them decide if the company is the right fit for them.  Ann Skeet is director of Leadership Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.
it was all about the ethical nd unethical stratigies followed by Amazon  .