Honesty Is Important As Ethics Plays The Greatest Role In Our life Success

There was a young man (17 years old), fresh out of high school, who worked for a European clothier in the 90′s as a sales associate. One day the owner of the store called in to see how things were going at the store. Unknown to the sales associate, the owner of the store was looking at his store from a distance and location where the sales associate could not see him. So the clothier asked the sales associate a question [the sales associate was not aware that he was being tested] about the whereabouts of the store supervisor [unknown to the sales associate, the owner already knew the answer to this question]. The sales associate replied, “the supervisor is in the bathroom.” You see, the supervisor was away from the store doing personal business, when she should have been “supervising” the store. Moments later, the owner of the store, after knowing that he was just lied to, walk into the store and in a furious response said these words to the sales associate and the supervisor, “both of you go home -your fired!” To say the least, they were shocked that the owner knew what was happening – they were quite clear as to the reason why they were fired – for lying & deception.

This is one of the greatest concerns of employers today. Many entrepreneurs are fearful that they cannot leave their business unattended for fear that the employee (s) will not treat their business with the same care and passion that they themselves give to it on a daily basis. The evidence of this is the lack of vacation time that a owner take on an annual basis away from their business. Another case is in the number of hours that an owner spend at the office/store on a daily basis; even working on their sabbath, holidays or weekends when the business is scheduled to be closed.

We would like for this not to be the case, but we all know of someone that is currently experiencing this problem. Hopefully as you read this, it can be said of you that you are not one of these people.

I will attempt to answer the following questions to help bring some understanding to this concern:

1. What does God’s word have to say about this subject?

2. Why do employees need supervision?

3. What are some suggestions for the employer to reduce this need for supervision?

4. What can the employee do to help reduce the need for supervision?

Answer to Question 1:

We are called to be faithful servants to our employer. We are to always be diligent in our work ethic, displaying Godly stewardship and character in the workplace. We need to and are called to fight against the works of the flesh that encourages slothfulness. God’s word declares, “One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?” (cf Luk 16:10-12)

Answer to Question 2:

We as human beings, due to our fallen nature, lack the ability to be faithful workers in and of ourselves. Needing to be held accountable and be kept focused on the task at hand is something that most if not all of us require or required at some time or another. Keep in mind that we were all supervised from the time of our birth by our parents or guardian. The world system says that you need to give an employee incentives to do their job. Give them things like bonuses, vacations, inter-office gifts and prizes by way of internal competition. We as children of God are never to do our work primarily because we are motivated to be faithful due to the offer of bonuses or other incentives to work. However, we are to do our work as if we were directly instructed by the Lord God Himself. As if He was our employer and we were in His workplace, employed directly by Him. (cf. )

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Bobby E. Miller – EzineArticles Expert Author

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