ASSIGNMENT 1: HOW PERSONAL CAN ETHICS GET?
Ana G. Hammell
Leadership and Organizational Behavior – BUS 520
Professor: Shawn Richmond
Strayer University

1. Discuss how personal differences and preference can impact organizational ethics. Ethics are the values and principles that help individuals determine between what is “right” and what is “wrong”. Ethics of an organization determine how the organization ethically responds to an internal or external stimulus. In this sense, organizational ethics are the set of formal and informal standards of conduct that people use to guide their behavior at work. These standards are partly based on core values such as honesty, respect, and trust, but they also can be learned directly from the actions of others. They also express the values of an organization to its employees and/or other entities irrespective of governmental and/or regulatory laws (Hellrigel & Slocum Jr., 2011).

On the other hand we have personal differences and preferences. An individual’s personality combines physical and mental characteristics that reflect how a person looks, thinks, acts, and feels. Personality differences and preferences can impact organizational ethics because each employee in an organization is unique and may or may not act like someone else will act in a similar situation as it can be observed in the present case under analysis.

2. Discuss how organizational policies and procedures can impact ethics. According to the article “Ethics in the workplace” (2011), among the benefits of promoting ethics within an organization is that it allows the company to recruit and retain top-quality people, foster a more satisfying and productive working environment, build and sustain the company’s reputation within the communities in which it operates, maintain the trust of members to ensure continued self-regulation,