Just Notes:

It is important to include an analysis of mismanagement in any ethical evaluation of a business. Mismanagement points to inefficiencies in the business that impact the bottom line. If a company is terribly mismanage, yet is flourishing, something must account for this profitability. Unethical acts and cutting corners are the likely source of the extra money. Many businesses say they have to bend the rules to survive in a competitive arena. But if the source of unethical act derives from examples below, bending the rules become more of a way of life than survival. Where there is fraud and ineptness there are often patterns of behavior confirming it. And there is immaturity in the form of game playing and emotional instability such as a strong attraction to the many temptations a business person faces that lead them into unethical actions.

constructive taking

Not doing business in a business like way. This includes not learning from past mistakes; not analyzing each problem to see how the problem arose. see conflict analysis. Not looking for clues or signs's prior to a problem that should have alerted the business person.

Convergence
Playing aggressive business games may be the result of poor management who compensates by extracting money by way of games from unsuspecting clients. Can inspire a deviation from ethical rules, acting out of fear or desperation . Mismanaged business are susceptible to the effects of convergence. One serious problem can crop up such as the week the company delivery truck broke down due to poor maintenance, an auditor finds taxes are owed due to poor bookkeeping, an employee quits because he or she is abused or exploited in the work place, and a large order of needed material must be returned to the supplier due to defects. Mismanagement sets a company up to failure or conditions wherein the company is desperate enough to bend ethical rules. There are businesses perpetually in a crisis who use their shortcomings to aggressively exploit the public.

• Playing Games Delaying Games. Excuses given for delaying a delivery or product. Some business make a practice of it and relish the deceptions they heap on their clients. To some it is a sign of their prowess that they can so easily deceive people. They hold themselves high above people as though they were on the top of the Darwinian pile. This is part of a winners losers game that subordinates any real concern for professional standards and ethics. Where there is unethical intent in a business there is likely to be a culture of fun and games. Management will not rein in on employee malfeasance as long as they are making the company a profit.

list games

Roschart Curve: A business that does not flourish may be a victim of their own business policies. This is a subtle form of mismanagement. Take for example a hardware store. The store is located in an area where there are no other stores. With a good location it would be difficult to lose money on the business. Yet the bottom line shows no growth or robust profits because the owner refuses to stock needed items. He only stock the very basic parts a homeowner might want.  Over say ten years this policy continues. The store gets a reputation for not having a complete inventory of parts this the buying public seeks out other stores. It simply is too time consuming to drive to the store only to find they did not have a common part other stores would have carried. The rochart curve starts to kick in when a company starts to "sanitize" their business by removing any inventory that sits on the shelf for more than sixty days.

constructive fraud

plausible deniability

irresponsible employees, not reining in on them. also lazy employees.

pending bankrupts
Obviously, if a business is going bankrupt there might be some delaying games, some deception and lying in desperate circumstances. This is an extreme in business ethics and it is difficult to cite that this is totally unethical. I falls more into the category of survival ethics.

Personal Sandbox

new business

predatory employees destroying the business employees working for a competitor.

Necessary Games

Underpaying the employee, incompetence, mistakes, inefficiency.

Having Fun

Lacking detail, shoddy

quick and nasty

skittering

timely billing

Skittering
This is sometimes a characteristic of the naive businessperson. Their business partners and potential business partner woo them to join in enterprises that fail or require more work than the skitterer is willing to produce. Such a person often ends up in crisis after crisis in which they may have to bend ethical rules to get out of. Skitter's are well-meaning good guys and girls who are simply out of their element.

Tactical Ignorance: Keeping out of the loop of feedback, failing and using survival as an excuse to cheat.

Initial Point

full service

working harder not smarter

responsiveness

Skittering: can;t finish one project before moving on to another

under stocking

not paying good wages, bad work, stealing

no security employees steal and treat customers badly

not clearing from past experience

being rough with people causing violent reactions

blowback

Not confronting tasks, timely collections, following leads

systemic instability because of a strong reactivity to temptation to exploit

Being prepared, having stocks, parts

Darwinian management style. Ethics don't matter who wins does