Embrace ethical discipline for sustainable growth — Businesses advised

A strategy and leadership consultant, Dr Victor Abbey, has stressed the need for businesses to integrate ethical discipline into their operations to ensure long-term success. 

He attributed Ghana's current economic and socio-economic difficulties partly to ethical misconduct, asserting that improved ethical discipline could help address these challenges and promote national progress.

“So, at the workplace, when everybody does the right things, the culture of the organisation will change towards the positive end. So my message is that ethical discipline pays way for a whole lot of things; sustainability issues, economic prosperity, everything hinges on ethical discipline,” he said.

Dr Abbey was speaking at the Chartered Institute of Administrators and Management Consultants-Ghana's (CIAMC) 48th National Mandatory Continuing Professional Education and 23rd Graduation and Induction ceremony in Accra on the theme: "Ethical Discipline in the Practice of Administration and Management Consultancy.”

The CIAMC is a professional body of administrators and management consultants, established in 2001.

Highlighting how workers regularly face ethical dilemmas, he said decisions should be guided by evaluating the consequences of both right and wrong choices, ultimately advocating for choosing what's right. 

According to him, positive change could spread throughout the nation if individuals commit to being ethical change agents within their own spheres of influence, particularly in the workplace. 

Assurance

A Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Professor Margaret Ivy Gyan, said despite facing ridicule and criticism, workers must maintain high ethical standards in their professional lives. 

She explained that ethical behaviour, though challenging in the short term, yields significant gains over time. 
She assured that while workers who adhere to strong ethical principles may initially struggle, such integrity would prove beneficial in the long run.