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on issues affecting the performance of the firm (Project Management Institute, n.d.). An organization that upholds ethical behaviors has a culture that fosters not only productivity but also excellence in service and product provision to its target markets. Managers are tasked with the role of ensuring that ethics are upheld in a firm. However, they often face a wide range of ethical dilemmas that demand their use of ethical decision-making to come up with effective solutions that are beneficial to all the stakeholders involved. One ethical dilemma that a manager can face relates to cover an employee who has done something contrary to the policies and… Continue Reading...
legal risks and can also be used to defer responsibility; ultimately ethical behavior is a matter of individual choice (Adelstein & Clegg, 2016). Organizations genuinely committed to meeting the high standards set forth in codes of ethics and codes of conduct need to embed these norms and behaviors into company culture via training programs, leadership, and other elements of organizational socialization.
Organizations do well to work beyond legal strictures to create hiring practices and procedures that help draw to the organization top talent that confers a competitive advantage. For example, Stoughton, Thompson & Meade (2015) found that prospective employees and applicants… Continue Reading...
increasing profits at the expense of consumer health and well-being.
There were unethical behaviors in the running of the PharmaCARE's advertisements. The presentation of the product was not representative of what the drugs functionalities really were. The result was unforeseen effects on the unsuspecting consumer. This was a demonstration that the company cared little about observing acceptable ethical standards in the running of its businesses (Arnold, & Oakley, 2013. In addition to the above flaws, the company did not take the drug through the proper legal and scientific sieves that have been set out by the relevant authorities before it made the… Continue Reading...
they perform well then they could earn bonuses.
10. Examples of unethical behavior and corruption. Promoting ethical behavior.
A police officer is given a position of power and with power, corruption seems to be a common problem. There are many ways in which promoting ethical behavior. The first line of defense starts with training undoubtedly, be once officers are aware of how they are expecting to act, the next phase involves accountability.
11. Performance Evaluation system. Purpose of Performance Evaluations.
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magnanimity relate to the overall concept of balance, exhibiting a middle path approach to all ethical behavior. One should not go to extremes. Being imbalanced, intemperate, arrogant, or self-effacing can all impede one’s ability to experience eudaimonia, or happiness (Hursthouse, 2016). A virtuous person who exhibits balance in their comportment and attitudes towards others is one who flourishes in their life, and who inspires others do to the same. Therefore, it is important to always be a good person because virtuous characteristics are noticed by others, admired by others, and ultimately imitated by others. A person who is virtuous can create a better world by… Continue Reading...
The people considered accountable for the scandal comprised of both employees and executives. Above all, engineers have taken liability for the unethical behavior. Furthermore, six company employees are at the moment facing criminal charges in the United States and an executive arrested, who was accountable for supervising compliance in emissions. Moreover, the chief executive officer (CEO) of the company, Martin Winterkorn, accompanied by the head of operations in the United States stepped down and Volkswagen also suspended numerous high-ranking executives (Gates et al., 2017).
Causes of the Crisis
Owing to competition, Volkswagen endeavored to come up with a competitive edge over its rivals. However, the technology used at the time was… Continue Reading...
ethical behavior. Sacrificing oneself for others is the core of the idea of altruism.
The specific reason the author contends that the default ethical theory for Western society during the 20th century when she was writing is altruism is because of the way it circumscribes the very field of morality. She posits the notion that altruism is the de facto form of morality because it defines values in regards to who benefits from them. As previously identified, with altruism the beneficiary is always another and never the self. Altruism, then,… Continue Reading...
a remedy to its role in the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and the management of its employees. Ethical behaviors remain matters of interests within and outside organizations (O'Connor, 2011). Corporate failure and scandals that continue to rock headlines raise serious concerns about management approaches employed in the workplace (Carter, 2015). Negative views about organizations could be detrimental to their growth. Examples of such cases include the initial BP's blunder in quick comprehension of the public concerns raised in the US relating to the Gulf of Mexico spill (O'Connor, 2011). Additionally, BP demonstrated a failure in prioritizing equipment safety in their operations that came into the limelight causing… Continue Reading...
& DuBois, 2004). Therefore, self-regulated learning is a complex phenomenon, helping to explain why human ethical behaviors are rarely cut and dry. Self-regulation does help with learning outcomes because of related issues too, like locus of control, identity, and the evolution of self-efficacy and confidence. Sperling, Howard, Staley & DuBois (2004)… Continue Reading...
have also inspired me to become a transformative leader in the army. The importance of ethical behavior and high standards has been communicated to me directly by senior officers as well as like-minded colleagues. Together, committed soldiers can transform the organizational culture and eliminate the unfortunate elements that create a toxic environment or which enable unethical decisions. Leaders in the military face a pressing need to set the standards for ethical comportment in the army. Serving as ideal role models for subordinates, leaders can exhibit ethical behavior in several ways: by promoting transparency and open communication, for example. Empowering subordinates to make decisions and contribute… Continue Reading...
with classic ethical leadership from the top-ranking management. In addition, devoid of driven ethical behavior by management accountants, all of the codes, policies and standards will eventually turn out to be ineffective (Ghose, 2017).
Product liability signifies one of the issues at the core of ethical and socially responsible behavior for businesses. Product liability encompasses the area in which business manufacturers or producers, distributors, suppliers, as well as retailers are held liable and culpable for the harm that such products cause. One of the key aspects that is linked to product liability is negligence in the sense that a management accountant become in… Continue Reading...
difference has affected the negotiation process thus far. It will also analyze the ethical behavior and tactics that have been used throughout the negotiation process, as some of these tactics have raised many questions about how far stakeholders can and should be willing to go when it comes to negotiating the peace in a region that is fraught with hostilities and conflict. Finally, this paper will determine the best alternative to a negotiated agreement as well as the worst alternative and develop a proposal for both a distributive and an integrative negotiation strategy for this negotiation.
The Syrian Negotiation
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an increasingly evolving landscape. A constantly changing public environment also means that public sector leaders must continuously adapt to change.
Ethical behavior is also a crucial trait in public sector leadership. Public sector organizations work for the general public. Whether it is education, healthcare, agriculture, security, defense, or corrections, public sector organizations seek to address problems that face the public. Since addressing these problems requires taxpayer resources, transparency and accountability is crucial. As custodians of public resources, public sector leaders have a responsibility to ensure the resources are utilized in an ethical manner (Dukakis, 2010). Deficiencies in transparency and accountability would mean that resources allocated to address a particular problem… Continue Reading...
who provides proof and evidence that substantiates the fraudulence and ethical behavior within the entity or activities that are not in the best interests of the general public or stakeholders. Customarily, whistleblowers reveal classified data and information concerning their workplace, which is in violation of the laws and regulations in place, and also that can be disparaging to the well-being of the employees. Whistleblowers have various characteristics. One of the key individualities of whistleblowers is credibility. A whistleblower has to have the character of being trusted, depended upon and have integrity. This is because the information provided by the whistleblower… Continue Reading...
according to God’s will. According to Gorman (2015), the Bible consistently frames justice and right ethical behavior as a mandate, part of the covenant we have with God. Viewed in this way, justice is putting universal ethics into practice. We must speak our minds and call out injustice wherever we see it, in order to carry out God’s will. As a parish, we can work together to achieve larger ethical goals, which often seem insurmountable if we try to tackle them ourselves.
How are factions in our parishes today both similar and different to the challenges the Corinthian Church faced?
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Philanthropy has been viewed as an ethical behavior stemming from moral virtue or moral duty. When philanthropic actions are conducted in exchange for what could be construed as personal gain, then what would be a moral act becomes a transactional or even selfish one. Donating money in exchange for some other gift, service, or benefit is not the same as selflessly bequeathing the same. “Pure philanthropy...is a transfer rather than a transaction in the sense that nothing is received in return,” (Keating, Pitts & Appel, 1981, p. 816). However, it may be unrealistic to expect that… Continue Reading...
and after Sarbanes-Oxley. Without that data, it is merely speculative to determine whether or not SOX has been effective in regulating ethical behavior in for-profit healthcare organizations. Indeed, it is not "for profit" that is important; the population for this study has to be publicly-traded, because those are the company for which data is available and the companies that are directly governed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
3. The case chosen is Tenet Healthcare, which the SEC examined in 2007. KPMG were the auditors of record for that year of the fraud, 2002. The SEC found that Tenet had "exploited a loophole in Medicare's reimbursement system, which had a material impact on… Continue Reading...
to rules for selfish reasons. Utilitarian ethics tend to view the ends as justifying the means, allowing for some unethical behaviors to take place as long as the actor deems the consequences worthwhile. At the same time, utilitarianism is a convenient model in a complex society where different ethical frameworks may clash. Virtue ethics stress the inner moral and psychological development of a person, and can be helpful in situations where a person simply wants to do good and be a good person. However, virtue or character ethics do not accurately guide a person towards ethical actions ("Six Ethical Theories Rough Overview," n.d.).
Week 2 -- Discussion 2
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shape company values and behaviors. Disturbingly, the Enron case also shows how unethical corporate behavior is linked with unethical behavior in government.
Summarize in one paragraph how you would explain Enron's ethical meltdown
Enron's ethical meltdown is a result of two interrelated issues: unethical individuals making unethical decisions, and an organizational culture that enables unethical decisions to proliferate. The unethical decisions and behaviors mainly have to do with stock market manipulation and the falsifying of information related to the actual performance of the firm. By fooling the market into believing that Enron was making money, it attracted increased shareholder revenues and proceeded to bull its way through the… Continue Reading...
Abstract
This paper focuses on questions of ethics and unethical behavior in the workplace. It discusses what leaders can do to better create an ethical environment in which people are respected and ethical values are promoted. It provides some examples from the real world of what happens when organizations fail to act ethically, and it also examines some of the problems that led to the disaster that was the 2007-2008 economic collapse. Ethical principles such as utilitarianism and virtue ethics are explained in connection with these discussions. The issues of diversity and discrimination are evaluated at length, and the… Continue Reading...
