Significant of Treating Employees as “ends” or human beings as end in themselves and not as “means” or instrument/resource/tool.

The rational of this report is to examine the significant of treating employees as “ends” or human beings as end in themselves and not as “means” or instrument/resource/tool. The report also aims the recommendations on how employees can be treated as ends and not means. It is clear from the past researches that, treating employees as human being and not seeing them as resources of the organisation performance, enable many organisations to improve their performance. This is because employee satisfaction is derived from the treatment received from the employer. Valuing employees is a beneficial decision to the organisation and the management itself. There is a trend applied by organisations of treating people as means to the end of the organisation makes them look like slaves and this is the problem to the employer and employee relationship. Treating employees as ends enable them to meet their desire and this gives them courage in themselves as having ability to make ethical decisions, which are likely to influence the organisation and the society.
Even thought there is hug need of treating employees as ends and not means, some organistaion still treat employees and means to the business. It is clear that some organisation do not realise the benefit of letting employees make choices and decisions. Consequently, more research needs to be conducted to emphasize on the benefits of treating employees as ends and not as means. The report examines available literature published on the specific topic.

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