Research Project G6
Research Project G6
Track : Academic
Strand : Accountancy, Business and
Management (ABM)
Researcher's Contact Details : _____________________
Name of Research Adviser : Macaulay Buena Bagnate, LPT
ABSTRACT
Ethics is the knowledge that anyone cannot buy, having an ethics as a business manager
is a great vision in order to be a role model with their employees. Business ethics concerns
Considering that this supervisor’s had their own knowledge and own way to run a business, it
is the presumption that they know much about the business ethics. Thus, the researchers will
conduct this research to identify if there is a significant correlation between ethical awareness
and work performance. The study is mainly focused on the correlation level between
supervisors in a cafeteria. The researchers will use quantitative method to describe and
interpret the collected data. Using this method, the researchers thinks that it will help to
visualize and show clearly the data gathered. The researchers created a questionnaire to
determine the level of awareness and work performance of the selected respondents.
Ever since business was formed, ethics have always been a part of it. Business ethics
concerns the supervisor or employee behaviour (right or wrong doings) in a field of business.
Having a proper managing and awareness about business is a key to success. Velasquez (2012)
defines that Business Ethics is a specialized study of moral right and wrong that focuses on
business institutions, organizations and activities. It study of moral standards and how these
apply to the social systems and organizations through which modern societies produce and
distribute goods and services and the activities of the people who work within the organizations.
In this broad sense ethics in business is simply the application of everyday moral or ethical
norms to business. Ethics is the knowledge that anyone cannot buy, having an ethics as a
business manager is a great vision in order to be a role model with their employees. A business’s
reputation impacts its customers, employees, for growth and overall success. Supervisor’s
business ethics is one the most important in one organization or business structure because if the
supervisors have those skills, he/she can be a good leader in his or her employee. The natural
world can be affected by a lack of business ethics. Businesses does not following any kind of
ethical code or carrying out their social responsibility leads to wider consequences. Unethical
behaviour may damage a firm’s reputation and make it less appealing to stakeholders. This
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means that profits could fall as a result. However, not every supervisor knows the ethics of a
business thus leading to poor performance of the employees. There are some that are unaware of
the ethics that they should have to run properly a business in order to meet the customer’s
satisfaction through their services. Ethics is important to businesses for many reasons.
With this in mind, the group decided to conduct a study on the Supervisor’s Business
Ethics Awareness and Employees Work Performance. Considering that this supervisor’s had their
own knowledge and own way to run a business, it is the presumption that they know much about
the business ethics. It is for very reason that this study is conducted in order to assess the
significant correlation between the supervisor’s business ethics awareness and the level of
This study will determine the awareness of Supervisor’s on Business Ethics and
1.1. Age
1.2. Sex
4. Assess the level of significant correlation between the managers business ethic
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
welfare and the good of business behaviour. Ethics are at their essence, moral judgements about
what is right and what is wrong. In a business sense, these ethics are decided upon and formed
by each company and underpin the decisions that anyone in the business makes. The decision to
behave ethically as one individual to another is easy for any decent moral human being, but it is
easy to forget the impact a large, faceless business can have on the world. Pozgar (2005) defined
ethics as seeking to understand and to determine how human actions can be judge as right or
wrong. Ethical judgement can be made based on upon the nature of or principles of reason. The
Ethical theories attempt to introduce order into the way people think about life and action.
According to Aristotle’s Ethical Theory, the virtuous person shows the joints excellence
of reason and of character. The virtuous person not only knows what the good thing to do is, she
is also emotionally attached to it. In addition, these two excellences are intimately connected, so
that the one cannot be had without the other. Therefore in Business Ethics the supervisor’s and
employees are connected to each other because they will the one who will benefit to have a
business success.
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The Deontological Ethical Theory defines that people should adhere to their obligations
duties when engaged in decision making when ethics are in play. In business, the supervisor’s
and the employees will follow his or her obligations to another individual or society because
upholding ones duty is ethically correct. A deontologist person will always keep his promises and
will follow to the law. So the supervisors and employees must have this kind of theory to know
Deontological Theory it will produce very consistent decisions since they will produce very
consistent decisions since they will be based on the individual’s set duties.
Furthermore, the Eudaimonism is a teleological ethical theory which posits, that an action
is good if it results in the fulfilment of goals along with the welfare of the human beings. The
Supervisors and Employees action will tends to promote the fulfilment of goals constitutive of
their business. Suppose supervisor enforce employee training and knowledge standards at work,
The above peruse materials probably shows that business ethics has been one of the most
common problem in business. There are so much Ethical standards that must learn and apply to
what business they have. It will teach them and recognize the values they have not even in
LITERATURE SURVEY
Ethics is believed to be a set of moral beliefs and conduct that discourages acts of self
gain and encourages honest and modest ways of generating business income (Gosh, 2011).
Ethics plays an important role in developing a business strategic plan as it serves as the backbone
of the firm’s principle. The firm’s goal is to provide services and products, and acquire profit
through the business sales and operation (Kalshoven, 2011). In spite of the business goal to
acquire profit and their return of investment, it is important that the strategies they employ in
their operations are bound by moral and ethical standards for their stakeholder (Lewis, 2002).
According to Roa (2008) Business Ethics is understanding of fundamental idea of what is good
and bad in a human conduct. Without Ethics, people, specifically businessmen, will set their own
moral standards, moral rules and moral principles. An important aspect of business ethics is
managerial ethics, which refers to the decisions, actions, and behaviors of managers and whether
Many times managers find themselves pushing the limits and entering the grey area of
ethics. De Cremer and De Bettignes (2013) explain that in the business environment there are
many implicit expectations and norms that motivate managers and ultimately may push them to
cross the boundaries and behave unethically. Many times competiveness and greed could push
managers into the ethical grey area. In addition, De Cremer and Bettignes (2013),“ This attitude
of pushing the limits effectively clouds our own moral limits and as a result it increase the
chance that they will eventually cross their boundaries.” Many managers believe that if they are
not doing anything illegal, than they are acting ethically. It is important for managers to
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understand the difference between laws and ethical standards. Once managers have a fair
understanding of what is considered appropriate ethical behavior, they can focus on making good
Managers are often times aware of the laws and regulations because they are formally
written and failure to comply with them to will result in some sort of sanctioned punishment,
whereas ethical standards are socially construed and failure to comply with these standards is not
always punishable understate. Cameron (2011) explains that ethical standards do not always
serve as adequate fixed points for managers because they “often change over time and
circumstances” thus they “frequently to do not remain stable because they are social construed”
Although laws and regulations are different than ethical standards managers need to
understand how the two can be integrated and used within their organization to help build a solid
ethical foundation. Blodgett (2012) acknowledges that many philosophers and legal scholars
have attempted to explain the complicated relationship that exists between laws and ethics
although it is still not easily understood, it is evident that there is indeed a connection between
the two.
Today, business managers have many reasons to be concerned with the ethical standards of their
organizations. Des Jardins (2013) stated that business managers have many other reasons to be
concerned with ethical issues. Unethical behaviour not only creates legal risk but creates also
financial and marketing risks for a business. If there is no one paying attention to the ethical
standards its clearer that a company or business can may lose in the market place, can go out of
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business and its employees go to jail. Ethical behaviour and an ethical reputation can provide
According to Ghillyer (2008) The increased presence of an employee voice has made
individual employees feel more comfortable speaking against actions of their employers that they
feel to be irresponsible or unethical. They are also more willing to seek legal resolution for such
A business cannot exist unless the people involved in the business adhere to some
minimal standards of ethics. Any individual business will collapse if all of its managers,
employees and customers come to think that it is morally permissible to steal or break their
agreements with the company. Velasquez (2012) defined that no business can exist entirely
without ethics, every business requires at least minimal adherence to ethics that involved
business. In addition, ethical behaviour can set the stage for mutually beneficial with others.
Unethical behaviour in business tends to loss proposition because it undermines the long term
cooperative relationships with managers, customers and employees on which business success
ultimately depends.
It is very important to manifest the business ethics in according to the above mention
materials it may enhance or it may help to improve to increase the work performance of their
respective subordinates.
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The study will deemed the importance of Awareness of the Supervisor’s on Business
Ethics and Employees Performance. Likewise, the findings of this research may prove useful to
the following:
TO THE BUSINESS SUPERVISORS. The study will help the business supervisor’s on how
TO THE CUSTOMER. The study will give realizations to the customers on how greatly
TO THE EMPLOYEES. The study will make the employees become more productive after
TO THE RESEARCHERS. The results will provide future researchers with some
DEFINITION OF TERMS
There are terms that are used throughout the literature review that the researcher defined
employment.
Business Ethic - are moral principles that guide the way a business behaves.
Business Ethics Awareness - it guide the individual managers in their work with employees
Work Performance - It is a job, role, task and responsibility that performs of each individual.
Level of Work Performance - refers to the level to which an employee successfully fullfills
cafeteria. Random supervisors will be picked and used as the subject for the study. The
researchers hoped that findings from the sample will be the true reflection of the cafeteria. This
study will determine the Supervisor's Business ethics awareness and Employees Work
Performance.
The use of questionnaires as the principle method of getting information had some limitations.
There were no chances for further probe in case of ambiguity by respondent. However, the
research came up with clear, well targeted, supervisor discussed to overcome this reflection.
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RESEARCH DESIGN
researchers measure the awareness of the supervisor’s on business ethics and assess the level of
employees work performance understand through statistical relationship. The objective of this
RESEARCH INSTRUMENT
A structured survey questionnaire is the instrument that will be used by the researchers in
gathering the essential data needed for the study. It will be used to perform the survey procedure
to the respondents of the study, the supervisors along the University Canteen-Manuel S. Enverga
University Foundation. Possible answers will be provided to the respondents and the said
respondents just have to select from the questionnaire that elicit the following pertinent
information: The respondents demographic profile, level of business ethic awareness of the
Permission to administer the survey questionnaire will be requested from each supervisors along
the University Canteen – Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation. The researchers will
personally administer the survey along the vicinity so that proper instructions will be given to the
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respondents. The survey questionnaires will be retrieved as soon as the respondents had
Necessary permits to conduct the research will be first secured. A letter of approval,
noted by the research adviser, will be presented to the Track Head of the Accountancy, Business
and Management (ABM) to allow the researchers to conduct the research. After giving the letter
of consent, the administration of the questionnaire will be conducted. Results will be tabulated,
The respondents under this study are the Business Supervisor in Manuel S. Enverga
University Foundation Cafeteria (MSEUF) in Lucena City. The study will be limited only to 8
selected respondents. The case study is concerned about the supervisor’s business ethics
awareness and the performance of the employees. It is expected that the analysis of these units
will provide a context for describing and analysing the case studies, and reconstructing the
University Foundation Cafeteria. The researchers will employ the purposive sampling to
HYPOTHESIS
Likert-scale method will be used to facilitate analysis and interpretation. The formula is
as follows:
WAM = ∑ fwi
Where:
∑ = Summation
F = Frequency
To determine the Supervisors Business Ethics Awareness and Employees Work Performance the
Where;
n= number of observations
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Figure 1 presents the input of the study consisted of a demographic profile of the respondent in
terms of age, sex, and length of work experience. Also constituting the input of the study is the
identification of the level of business ethic awareness of the supervisor. The other part is the
distribution of questionnaires to evaluate the level of work performance of the employees and the
assessment of the level of significant correlation between the supervisors business ethic
awareness and the level of employees performance. The process of the study is to identify the
level of awareness of the supervisor on business ethic and evaluate the level of work
performance of the employees through the questionnaire checklist, also to know the level of
significant correlation between the managers business ethic awareness and the level of
employees work performance. The output of the study will be the Supervisor’s Business
Ethics Awareness and Employees Work Performance that will stand as the guide to have a
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