ABSTRACT
Ethics and integrity are two of the buzzwords in management. Management courses, workshops, posters, and employee stress management courses attempt to provide well-intentioned models for intervention to improve quality of life and service or product. Addressing epidemic of stress in the workplace by limiting interventions to individuals experiencing occupational stress and burnout may collude with blaming those who have suffered the effects of the stress, rather than dealing with the problem at its source. The implementation of an ethical code would play an important role in enhancing the level of Integrity in the manager-worker relationship, and mitigating many workplace stressors. The ideologies embodied in purpose provide a strong and unifying mechanism that stimulates the energies and efforts of its employees, and provides a moral compass to attain that meaningful, value-laden purpose of the organization. For the worker, a lack of safety interfering with input and feedback to the higher echelons of the organization, resulting in increased management and worker stress.
