Employees First in an Organization

The textbook refers to the views of the great Moral Philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle (page 427), and how their views are still relevant to this day. The book also touches upon the views of Immanual Kant, whose ideas I respect.

Kant was of the opinion that Moral action ought to have Man as the end and never as the means to the end. In other words, the ultimate goal of all Moral action is to aid or improve Man, and an action that treats Man as merely the means to an end, but not the end itself, cannot be called moral at all.

I believe that this principle goes to the very foundation of the Ethics of an organization. First and foremost, People are the most valuable entities in any organization. So an organization ought to place its own employees ahead of everything else. Hence the first moral principle of any organization is "Employees First".

Organizations ought to place human values above the other insentient aspects of the organization. In some sense, Employees ARE the Organization!