Find sources you can use in your research paper. Read books such as "Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making and Cases" by O.C. Ferrell and other authors or "Where the Law Ends: The Social Control of Corporate Behavior" by Christopher Stone. In addition, read "Resisting Corporate Corruption: Lessons in Practical Ethics from the Enron Wreckage" by Stephen Arbogast.
Draft an outline detailing how you want to organize your research paper. List your thesis, or the purpose of your paper. For example, choose to write about why managerial ethics is important for society as a whole. Then, write down two to three points you want to make about this topic.
Write the introduction to your paper. Explain why you are writing the paper and how the reader can benefit from it. Emphasize your thesis and the points you want to make about this central idea.
Describe the first point in the first paragraph of your research paper body. For example, when writing about the significance of managerial ethics as a whole, first explain why managers must be ethical in dealing with the government and stockholders. Give examples of situations in which this did not take place and go over why the government's accounting standards are in place.
Explain the second point of your managerial ethics paper in the second paragraph of the body. For example, mention that ethical behavior by managers influences employees. Describe how managers who are not ethical tend to be biased toward an employee's age, race, ethnicity or gender and how they also can get into sexual harassment situations.
Emphasize the third point of your essay in your body's third paragraph. Mention how unethical managerial behavior hurts individuals and local communities.
Write the conclusion to your paper on managerial ethics. Review your thesis and three points again, and explain how your paper can benefit the reader. Stress why the content of your paper is important and its implications for the managerial ethics field. Also, make a list of all reference materials you used in your paper. Read over the paper for errors in spelling, usage, grammar and punctuation.