Blog 4 : Employee’s List of Ethics At Work

 

Employee’s List of Ethics At Work

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Developing Good Work Habits

Reliability 

is key to being a good employee will have these qualifications as below;

1 )Punctual: A  punctual employee also means having high responsibility, dedicated to duties, being organized, being professional, and respecting their co-workers. The ones who are not, will make the company losses money and times. This behavior , unfortunately can attracts another employees to copy and bring down the morality inside the organization.

2) Consistent in work attendance: employees who show up for work each day reflects as dedicated employees company and team can trust with important tasks. Meanwhile poor attendance suggests that they’re not prepared to pull their weight in the company

3) Accomplishes tasks by required deadlines: Deadlines make everyone stressed but it also bring the best efforts from employee. A good employee respects deadlines and manages their time at work well because their works could affect the company business, clients, suppliers and co-workers.

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Professional attire

Related to interpersonal skills is an employee’s outward appearance. Strong interpersonal skills involve understanding office politics – the employee should know when to speak up and when to listen.

Altruistic, Helpful and Goal-Oriented

Altruism is an unselfish genuine reactions or being willing to help after realizing that something must be taken action. For example; an employee is out of their way or beyond their duties or responsibility to stay late to help another co-worker finish their works. Being altruistic and helpful will speed up the work process to be finished and creates good relationship between teams as well.

Goal-Oriented means working hard to achieve the set goals. This could benefit directly to the company and their team from small to big projects and will bring the company close to mission and vision in the near future

Being Positive

During the business struggles, positivity of employee will positively approach projects or problems without avoiding difficult processes or situations.

Negativity damage workplace atmosphere and block new ideas to deal with problems which worsen productivity and morals.

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The Employer's Role

For example, respect to your employees, but also be willing to address performance and behavior issues promptly. Be a good examples in ethics to build business from the right foundation and prevent corruptions.

Good Communication Skills

Strong interpersonal skills can help form cohesive teams among employees and make handling challenges easier. Employees should learn how to communicate effectively in email, by phone and in-person. In addition, it's also important for employees to learn how to present negative information in a constructive way.

 

Conclusion 

There are so many qualities that employees need. Most of people will think that about work qualifications are not included in ethics but in fact, you can include them in the ethics category as well. Making ethical decisions by knowing right or wrong, in this case could be good in making more benefit as well. When you work with a lot of people, making the best choice is important. When you make the best choice it will associated with gaining and trust from customers, leaders , boss, coworkers and will result for better reputation. 

My Reflection and Key takeaway :  

Employees are important resources in the company. Good and qualified employees will make the vison and strategy of Top Managers come true and take company get through crisis. There are many traits that the company needs but lability is one of the most quality that HR look for. It means that person has high responsibility and company can trust and assign that person with important jobs. If the employee has high responsibility, he/she will take action whenever it is needed, so the operation can still keep going smoothly. 

References  : 

• Cherry, K. (2019). What Is Behind the Psychology of Positive Thinking? [online] Verywell Mind. Available at: https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-positive-thinking-2794772.
• Cherry, K. (2023). Why We Risk Our Own Well-Being to Help Others. [online] Verywell Mind. Available at: https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-altruism-2794828.
• Half, R. (2019). 5 reasons why punctuality will always be relevant | Robert Half. [online] www.roberthalf.com.hk. Available at: https://www.roberthalf.com.hk/blog/jobseekers/punctuality-5-reasons-why-it-will-always-be-relevant-your-career.

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