Introduction In business, ethics is given a lot of attention, and many organizations strive to achieve the best. There is no doubt that a good company’s foundation is based on ethics; this is why many companies around the world anticipate commencing on a solid ethical background. A company whose business practices are deemed smart is always complimented by ethical behaviors, which are decent and good. Nevertheless, what is ethics? According to Ellis (2007), ethics is a branch of philosophy that addresses issues concerning morality, for example, concepts of good and bad, wrong and right, and vices and virtues. However, this could be simplified as principles of morality governing a group of people’s behavior or that of an individual. That said and understood then, we get to understood why many managers emphasize on building organizations, which are characterized by ethical values. Description of an organization This term nonetheless is used in large contexts and in our every day-to-day life mostly in line of business. However, let as look at the definition of an organization in comprehensive terms without speculating. In defining an organization, we base on the elements that make it or are part of it, and thus according to Marshak (1987), an organization is a social group that has a task of distributing work with the intention of attaining a collective goal. There are different categories of organizations ranging from governmental organizations, corporations and non-governmental organizations. They are operational in private, and public sectors to fulfill duties to the public and develop activities for the commercial market (Ellis, 2007). For us to build an ethical organization, we, therefore, need to know what makes up an organization. This is an organizational structure, which determines how the organization runs and the organizational behaviors of the various stakeholders. In a well-built organization, you will always have the managers and administrators. Managers are known to undertake massive decisions concerning various issues following the entire organization whereas the work of the administrators is to put these decisions into functional forms. In this case, to shape an organization well into having the best ethical concepts, then it must have mission statements and values statements to emphasize the organizational goal. To realize this then a culture of organizational ethics must be first created. As Professor Daniel Swartzman of the UIC School of Public Health put it, employees in an organization must be made to know that priorities of morality are just as important as those involving finances. Therefore, to begin an ethical culture, moral values should be held high just as financial concerns. Review of the organizations aspiration statements, in this case, the mission and value statements should be anticipated in confronting difficult decisions that might prostrate (Swartzman, 2010). Mission and value statements A mission statement refers to the purposeful statement of an organization or a company that gives a guide and puts into summary the benefit that an organization intends to give to the world. The UIC School of Public Health’s value statement reads that the organization is a community of scholars together with staff and students who are dedicated to helping create a society that is healthy. In order to achieve thi