Abstract
Human resources managers are increasingly called upon to contribute to ethical decision making in their hiring practices. Hiring policies and practices are a critical gateway to fulfilling organizational ethical commitments. Using standard screening methods like background checks or screening applicant social media accounts present ethical dilemmas, pitting the need for due diligence against the need to resist any form of discrimination in hiring. By engaging in hiring policies and practices that reflect legal ground rules and also ethical codes, human resources managers achieve critical security goals and also protect the legal and ethical rights of employees. Key issues to take… Continue Reading...
in the fulfilment of their day to day duties and responsibilities. Next, a number of practical work scenarios where ethical decision making is required are highlighted, with an evaluation of the relevance of theoretical perspectives to the scenarios. Finally, a code of ethics and best-practices checklist relevant for correctional officers is presented, clearly demonstrating how the code will positively impact all the stakeholders, correctional officers work with.
Job Description
Correctional authorities are generally involved in rehabilitating offenders. Correctional personnel play a crucial role in achieving this end. This role entails admitting inmates, delivering meals to inmates, maintaining law and order within correctional facilities, retaining the accepted standards within the… Continue Reading...
market system. Barely addressing environmental and social justice issues, the filmmakers instead choose to focus on organizational culture, leadership, and ethical decision making within the corporation. The film illustrates the core concepts of business ethics and shows how executives 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… Continue Reading...
intervene, changing their business practices to become more aligned with ethical principles.
The Role of Ethical Decision Making
All organizations have a direct responsibility to perform ethically and to engage in ethical business practices. Ethical decision making starts with senior management, which sets the ethical tone for the entire organization. Even with strong codes of ethics, leaders have the power and ability to engage in unethical business practices. The normative environment in the organization needs to reflect the values and principles set by the leaders. Leaders become the role models for others in the organization, and with collective, collaborative decision making, all senior managers can… Continue Reading...
Shteynberg, Gelfland, et al. (2012). Cojuhuarenco, Shteynberg, Gelfland, et al. (2012) also show how gender and self concept impact ethical decision making as much as the normative ethical culture in the organization. An abundance of research reveals the detrimental effects of unethical behavior in organizations (Askew, Beisler & Keel, 2015). Given the deleterious effects of unethical behavior… Continue Reading...
company developed Ethics Idol as a more engaging and exciting alternative to PowerPoint presentations in training employees about ethical decision making.
Question #1. What are the advantages of Ethics Idol as an ethics training communication medium over in-person PowerPoint training?
A survey of ethics and compliance issues training at Cisco found out that employees regarded the in-person PowerPoint based exercise boring, dull, and unexciting. This is more so the case given that in essence, what the company had been doing was forcing employees to cram compliance and ethics information using a standard and rigid PowerPoint presentation approach. Ethics Idol is not only exciting, but also invigorating. Unlike a… Continue Reading...
years. This prize shows the organization’s pledge to undertake what is right, whether it is for the caregivers, the patients, the community or for the organization as a whole. Furthermore, the healthcare organization is devoted to transparency, social responsibility, environmental stewardship and also ethical decision making in all aspects of the entity. In recent years, Cleveland Clinic has set up programs that manage possible conflicts of interest, provide transparency on the industry associations of physicians and researchers, openly report clinical results and promote ecologically friendly building and sustainability programs (Cleveland Clinic, 2018).
4. Efficacious Quality Management
The Cleveland Clinic has made significant endeavors to ensure there is effective quality management and patient safety. Specifically, the healthcare organization has developed a Quality and Patient Safety Institute. The institute basically lays emphasis on reconnecting quality… Continue Reading...
