...Ethical Filter Paper Shemina Bhojani MMPBL/500 February, 01, 2010 Mr. Whiteley Ethical Filter Paper Ethical values are a formal system or set of rules governing the conduct of a person or members of a profession by which decisions are made about right and wrong, should and shouldn’t, good and bad (Values, Morals and Ethics, 2010). In our daily lives we come across so many issues. Some of these issues can be categorized into medical ethics, legal ethics, business ethics, and personal ethics but the ways of relating to such issues are derived from basic ethical values (Ethical Values as Part of the Definition of Business Enterprise and Part of the Internal Structure of the Business Organization, 1998). The basic Ethical values that I feel are very important are Honesty, Integrity, Building Trust, Respect, and Being Responsible. I value these Ethical Values that I have earned and I admire people who have such values because not only do these values build ones image but at the same time through these values people have a positive perception of peers and organizations are willing to work together for mutual benefits. This paper comprises detailed descriptions and analysis of the identified Ethical values. I will culminate by discussing how implementing these values make a difference in our personal and professional life. Honesty It refers to a facet of moral character and denotes positive, virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, and straightforwardness...
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...HSM 230: Ethical Issues in Human Services Management Week 9: Final Project: Building an Ethical Organization part 2 Title: Job Placement Program By Penelope Foretich August 20, 2015 Introduction Statement Here in the city of Commerce, TX, there is a rising problem that has to deal with the economic crisis of the town. The town has approximately 9,000 residents in it, but only a handful of employment opportunities for these residents to find work. The highest employer in town is the Texas A and M University with an average of 900 employees. However, once school is out, their job opportunities for the town drop drastically. Many employers lose their staff, since most are from the University. As a result, it has possibly added to the cause of the poverty rate increase in the town. As a Human Service Advocate and a resident of the town itself, I propose a Job Placement program to bring the economy of the town back up. The people of Commerce need a way to revive the town and bring the economy of their residents back up and out of poverty. I believe creating a job placement program for the residents could help in solving the issue of the drop rate in available jobs in Commerce. This is a growing problem and there are many that need help with finding jobs. What will also help is providing the right job training for those part of the program. Description of the Organization The type of organization that I will be to be Director of is a non-profit Job placement program through...
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...------------------------------------------------- How Ethical CEOs Create Honest Corporations A book report We have seen in recent corporate history a litany of corporate scandals that rocked the foundations of the business world. Huge corporations whose economic outputs are larger than most of the developing countries have suddenly imploded under the weight of stock manipulation, unscrupulous accounting procedures and deliberate enculturation of business competitiveness anchored on ‘doing whatever it takes to win’. Small ethical cracks in the business foundation had gone too many and had been widely ignored by all of their stakeholders – employees, board of directors, stockholders, regulators, auditors and analysts. In the aftermath, we are faced with a realization of how fragile our economic system is and how much of it depends on values that are both difficult to measure and, in the current world, even more difficult to acquire. These are not mere economic values of profitability; but values of integrity, of truth, and of plain and simple honesty. It is in this context that the three authors - Patrizia Porrini, Ph.D., Lorrin Hiris, D.P.S., and Gina Poncini, Ph.D. - wrote this book. They do not seek to expound on the voluminous literature available discussing why and how these corporate scandals happened. They seek to provide answers to how effective CEOs build an ethical culture within an organization by providing actual cases of ethical companies that had passed the test of...
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...2013, a commercial building in Savar, the capital of Bangladesh collapsed. The death toll was estimated to be 1,129 bodies with just about 2,515 injured. The eight-story building consisted of many small businesses as well as industry leading companies such as H&M, Tesco, Gap, Walart, and Disney. With the garment industry making three-quarters of the total GDP for Bangladesh, there was no industry power used to take appropriate action to prevent the tragedy. In this paper I will state who bears most responsibility for the tragedy and what I feel the next appropriate actions should be taken. An ethics analysis will be completed on the three key players of the tragedy whom are the owners of the factory, the Bangladeshi government, and the companies that had products produced at Rana Plaza. I believe that the owners of the plaza bear the most responsibility for the tragedy at Rana Plaza. As owners, they have the responsibility to maintain, repair, and have the general upkeep of the building in good working order. This includes the repairs to the individual units as well as the repairs to the common elements of the building. The common elements include all parts of the property that are outside of the boundaries between the units that organizations occupy. The onus is on the owner that the funds collected for the lease or rent of each unit is used accordingly. The owner did not lack resources or comprehension to take action to prevent this problem. The building was initially evacuated...
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...INDIVIDUAL MANAGER HAVE FOR THE ETHICAL CULTURE OF HIS/HER ORGANISATION? Ram Visvanathan Business Ethics May 28, 2014 Introduction. Ethics is very important for the prosperity of any organization. Every employee or stakeholder of an organization has got an important role to play in nurturing an ethical culture in an organization. This research paper discusses the level of responsibility that an individual manager has in the ethical culture of his or her organization. This is done with close attention to academic journals and research. The paper will derive its arguments from veteran theories like the Utilitarian and the Kantian theories. The paper will also relate its discussions with the case study about Enron a USA company that collapsed as a result of unethical behavior in the management. Some of the components that will be highlighted in the paper include; the importance of an ethical culture in an organization, the dangers of lack of ethics in an organization and the strategies that can be used to promote ethics in an organization. Justification of the research. The study of the role of individual managers in the ethical culture of an organization is a justified venture. This is because of the increased calls for ethical behaviors in organizations. The expectations of the staff and the society at large on ethical behaviors have increased tremendously over the past decade (Kansas & Plain 2002). Organizations also have a constitutional responsibility...
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...Ethics paper for week one in my class. Ethics Ethics Ethics are a part of our daily lives. Learning ethics begins at an early age. From birth to a teenager, parents try to instill ethics in children. Many of the groups one joins during school or in after school programs are meant to teach ethics to individuals on a daily basis. Building character and driving home the moral makeup of and individual are the primary goals of parents, schools, and organizations like boy scouts or girl scouts. Understanding ethics and how we got where we are today is the primary focus of this paper. My ethical system From the time I was a small child to the day I left home for good, my parents focused on my character and moral standards above anything else. The goal hopefully was a young man with strong moral character and ability to make the right ethical decisions on my journey through adulthood. My ethical support system started early in cub scouts as a young child. Going to meetings and earning merit badges for doing good deeds was how I spent my spare time. Sports were other outlets for me to learn character. Soccer was the game of choice and my father was the coach. Coming from a military background and in the Marine Corps himself, he taught the entire team honesty, sportsmanship, and integrity for the game. I learned at an early age that honesty was always best and the one thing expected of me no matter what. Graduating to Webelows was...
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...Building an Ethical Organization Part I Axia College Building an Ethical Organization is not only important but also crucial to any organizations overall success. I am the newly appointed director of the Public Women’s Health Center. This organization is dedicated to helping out by providing women’s services and family planning to those in need. The Women’s Health Center is a provider of OB GYN care with excellence in family planning and counseling. WHC is a non-profit organization and a leader in health care for women today, with the most advance technology we are able to keep up with the ever changing times as well as the ever changing needs of the community to. The clientele for this organization will mainly be at risk women (youth) in the community as well as those in need of services because they cannot afford the treatment. The clientele is usually poverty stricken and have no other means for treatment otherwise. As the director I had the distinct pleasure of creating a mission statement that will strategically guide this organization through daily operations and decisions. The mission statement written expresses just that, guidance. The WHC mission statement: “To provide quality care, compassion and comfort to those within the community in need.” This mission statement supports the ethical system because it addresses the needs of the clientele as the main focus of the organization which is what the focus is supposed to be about as well as through acting as guiding...
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...Building an Ethical Organization Part 2 HSM/230 November 17, 2013 Building an Ethical Organization Part 2 Building an Ethical Organization Part 2 HSM/230 University of Phoenix An ethical organization is not only best for the people it serves but also best for the organization. Being able to describe the organization is the way to succeed in helping others understand what it is that the employees are trying to accomplish. A mission statement helps to keep the ideals or the organization in mind, as well as establishing what target population they would help. Creating a values statement, will help the organization to communicate its moral side with potential clients and others. A code of ethics (code) serves as a central guide to support day-to-day decision making at work. It clarifies the cornerstones of your organization-- its mission, values and principles –helping your staff understand how these cornerstones translate into everyday decisions, behaviors and actions. While some may believe codes are designed to limit one’s actions, the best codes are actually structured to liberate and empower people to make more effective decisions with greater confidence. An effective code has many uses, but two critical ones stand out. A code should (1) clarify Gray areas or questions employees have concerning organizational values and expectations and (2) Help build trust and commitment. At best, a code “reflects the covenant that an organization has made to uphold its...
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...has ethics that are defined in the Constitution. The Constitution expresses that it is ethical for American citizens to have rights to certain freedoms such as religion, speech, to marry and raise a family, and to work at any job for which we may qualify. Many countries around the world do not feel socially responsible to allow its citizens the same freedoms. This stance on ethics creates an American workforce that is a melting pot of diverse cultures. Diversity in the Workplace In the 1950s, more than 60% of the American workforce consisted of white males. Today, the American workforce is a better reflection of the population with a significant mix of genders, race, religion, age, and other background factors (Lindenberger, 2013). The United States Navy is one organization in which this observation is true. Recently serving in the U.S. Navy I can personally relate to this statistic. Serving in the military is a profession that is viewed as exemplifying the ethical beliefs of the United States of America at the highest degree. I served alongside sailors from all walks of life. Many different ethnicities and religious backgrounds were represented. This often caused conflict due to different points of view. I’m from the south where people are raised to be polite and say “excuse me”, “please”, and “thank you” when interacting with other people. Other people from different parts of the country, or world, were not raised this way and do not share these cultural values...
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...of Ethics in Public Administration The study of the foundations of ethical administration is an important topic to explore when working in a public organization, especially when pursuing a future role as a public administrator. Ethics in public administration is not a transient concept but has proven to be an approach which has shown a great deal of sustainability which is fundamental to the area of public administration. Ethics is gaining prominence in the discourse about governance today. Public organizations and public administrators should strive for high ethical standards and an ethical workplace. “The general goal of identifying ethical precepts is relatively straight forward—to develop standards of “right conduct” that are known and knowable beforehand and apply to more or less everyone—but maddeningly difficult to specify with precision, an even more onerous to practice (Martinez, 2009, p.1).” Organizations need to abide by ethics or rule of law and engage themselves in fair practices and competition; all of which will benefit the public and organization. Ethics is important because of the following: satisfying basic human needs, creating credibility, uniting people and leadership, improving decision making, long term gains, and securing the public. Ethics tries to create a sense of right and wrong in the organizations and often when the law fails, it is the ethics that may stop organizations from harming the society or environment. Ethics has now come into an...
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...Building an Ethical Organization Part 1 HSM/230 June 22, 2014 What services does the organization provide? Who is the clientele? Today, we have an overabundance going to be a non-profit dedicated to the citizens of our community and the surrounding cities. We will provide quality care of citizens of Georgia who cannot afford to have good, quality medical and dental care. Rosemary Complete Care Center (RCCC) is hoping to change that. We are care for those who need it and will provide resources on for those who are qualified to receive the Obamacare. We will treat all clients as well as staff with compassion and respect. The organization is going to be a complete wellness and care facility. The priority will be to provide residents with the proper care they need. Is it a for-profit or non-profit organization? We will be a non-profit and will rely on government grants, donations, and volunteer workers who can hopefully be able to move eventually into paid positions. We are also hoping to employ the elderly and disabled to give them a feeling of accomplishment and being needed. We will maintain the elderly, disabled, homeless, low income, pregnant women, veterans, anyone who needs our services and we will provide services for those who have been denied help elsewhere. We are going to be a full service center and will also be able to help those with mental disabilities. Eventually, as we grow, and with more funding, we would like...
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...Recommendation The Energy Cooperative is a non-profit organization that, in short, provides education to the public regarding new technology updates, monitoring viable new start-up energy companies and providing a public forum for complaints on its website. After meeting with the board of directors, I was asked to provide a recommendation on the ethical concerns with telling personal potential clients they are calling as director of the Energy Cooperative. The following is my recommendation. The ethical concerns I have are with the directors wanting to contact their personal potential clients for business gain and use their status with the non-profit to promote business for their personal gain versus the benefit of the co-op. According to Kant’s categorical imperative, an individual’s motives must be pure, if they are not, then the means cannot justify the end (Ziegler, 2011). In this case, the director’s motives to contact these potential clients can bring business connections to the co-op because of him acknowledging the group, but the director’s only goal is to profit from this for his own personal gain. Under Kant’s categorical imperative, the benefit that these potential clients can bring to the non-profit and all of its members are irrelevant because of the selfish act by the directors. It is my recommendation the directors do not use the status of their positions when contacting personal potential clients. I arrived at this conclusion mainly because of the potential...
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...Building an Ethical Organization Human service organizations are meant to provide quality assistance when assisting individuals in need. One way to assure that this is so, is be making sure that one understands the many aspect of what ethics truly mean. When considering what an ethical organization stands for, one should always implement these six elements, such as: mission statement, values statement, code of ethics, organizational culture, leadership, and oversight. When building an ethical organization, this simply means that one needs to understand what it truly mean to be efficient, effective, productive, professional, and compassionate human service worker. What one has found while taking this course is that there are many human service organizations/agencies that are in this field only for the financial aspect. Creating an ethical organization begins with hiring ethical people. “Once employed, those individuals must step up to the moral challenge and fulfill the ethical responsibilities they have,’ (McCurdy, 1998) One’s staff should “bear the responsibility for the ethical nature of their organization; it will not do the claim that the organization can somehow “lead individuals to do good or evil or that the organization can be guilty of unethical behavior, apart from identifiable individuals who lead it and staff it” (McCurdy, 1998) Even though this is so, individuals have an indisputable moral responsibility in organizations, people also need their organization moral...
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...of office romance. In addition to meeting corporate challenges, companies must effectively deal with the likely impasse posed by office romance. It is imperative that companies effectively rise up to these challenges posed by the controversies of office romance which they often view as a thorn in the flesh in order to guarantee their survival in a highly competitive environment. Lever, Zellman and Hirschfelds article “Office Romance: Are the rules changing?” is based on research done on office romance in American companies. The authors offer a pragmatic and cautionary view of the dangers of office romance and strive to offer solutions to the pitfalls of that can afflict companies if office romance is not handled in a professional and ethical manner. The authors are quite categorical that office romance cannot be completely eliminated. They point out through statistical information that office romance is a growing phenomenon that can be viewed as a double edged sword bearing potential dangers but also carrying inherent benefits for innovative companies. The authors’ tone is indeed cautionary and they attempt to offer solutions that comprehensively cover the crisis that is office romance. The title of the article is indeed telling of the fact that as much as companies frown upon office romance for fear of legal tussles and tense working environments, there is a changing global view of how these relationships should be handled. The authors’ solution to this dilemma is “Developing...
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...TERM PAPER Deteriorating Ethics and Values in Organizations: In the face of Indian Reality - VATSAL DUSAD 2010TT10971 ”Integrity has no need of rules.” --Albert Camus Ethics and Values in the context of organizational culture have been a topic of intense research and arguments over a long period of time, and it has also been recognized as a very important aspect of organizational behavior. In this paper, I would be discussing the deteriorating ethics and values in organizations. I would begin with elaborating what ethical culture means, then taking it over to highlighting its need, pondering over the reasons -‐ so as to why unethical culture prevails and then study about ethical leadership. I would like to conclude by, bringing it to Indian context and laying down a discussion -‐ on how prominent and prevalent is this issue in our own land. There has been a sudden rash of corporate scandals and the...
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