...Running head: HOW PERSONAL CAN ETHICS BE 1 BUS520 Organizational Leadership October 20, 2011 HOW PERSONAL CAN ETHICS BE 2 Abstract Business ethics in an organization have become extremely relevant in today’s business society. Graduate schools teach business ethics to prepare leaders and managers to be more responsible. Although ethical issues often arise out of business relationships many companies strive to implement a code of ethics that eliminates room for doubt and place emphasis on the expectations for the company’s culture. HOW PERSONAL CAN ETHICS BE 3 Discuss how personal differences and preferences can impact organizational ethics. A profound quote that is used by so many is “to thine own self be true,” though this is easily spoken it is not easily able to be done. Being true as defined by moral principles involve character, integrity and self-awareness, this is one reason why many organizations develop core values and policies as their foundation. Hellriegel and Slocum (p. 10, 2011) define ethics as the values and principles that distinguish right from wrong. Personal differences and preferences are based from one’s experience and frame of reference that is developed from birth and linger long into our lives as adults. It is who we are and it’s symbolic of a woven masterpiece handed down from many generations. This impact on organizational ethics can be positive and allow the company’s culture to embrace diversity...
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...School: Strayer University Professor: Dr. Denean Robinson, PhD Assignment # 1 – “How personal can ethics get?” Submitted by Abdul Kamara April 21, 2011 1. Discuss how personal differences and preference can impact organizational ethics. Human resources is the core component of any organization, therefore their behavior and attitude, or preference can seriously impact the ethics of an organization. This section of this paper is going to cover the impact of personal differences, and preferences on the ethics of any organization. According to Griffin (2009), “when you go into any job, no matter where you are in the world you will come across a multitude of individual differences and preferences, so an individual difference does not affect the individual alone, but everyone around them in an organization.” In an organization, there is no way an individual can be treated the same way as the other employees because everyone’s personality is difference. “Perhaps one employee has a dynamic personality and prefers being the center of attention in every discussion, whereas others avoid crowd and enjoy being alone.” (Griffin, 2009) However, that would be the personality that represents the overall profile of stable psychological attributes which captures the unique nature of that individual. Personality combines a set of physical and mental characteristics that reflect how a person looks, thinks, acts and feels. Therefore, trying to understand another person’s...
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...retailer's three other stores in the city were also tested as a precaution, but no bedbugs were found at any of those locations. Bedbug is a wingless blood-sucking insect that grows up to 7 millimeters in length. These bacteria are found in dirty cold places. Bedbugs are increasing in time and are very bad because they get people sick. Reflection Why did you choose this article? The reason why I chose this article is to see the main reason for bedbugs’ being in the store. Another reason is that it was funny and intersecting. Why is the topic in this article important to learn about? This topic is important to learn about because if you keep your home nasty and dirty you have a 100 percent of having bedbugs in your homes. How is the topic of this article controversial? I think this article can be controversial because people will think that the store is not being clean everyday and some people might make that store run out of business with in a heartbeat. Is this topic about something you would like to look into further? If so why? Yes, i really want to know if the employees are the one who brought these bedbugs at the store or the store was just dirty a lot. Did you enjoy reading this article why or why not? I love this article because it was fun to read. You can also learn the way some people...
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...Running head: PERSONAL ETHICAL DELIMMAS How Personal Can Ethics Get Nasser Mardini Virginia International University Organizational Behavior and HR management – MBA 513 Fall 2011 Dr. Shawn Richmond 09/22/2011 ABSTRACT In this paper I will discuss the concept of ethics and the dilemmas facing Valerie; who is a marketing manager for Wisson which is an international cosmetics and fragrance company. I will also discuss how personal differences and preference can impact organizational ethics, how organizational policies and procedures can impact ethics, the ethical dilemmas that Valerie is facing and recommend what Valerie should do. Introduction This is a case of a marketing manager named Valerie Young. She is working in the US on a work permit. She discovers some documents about her boss which shows that he is taking kickbacks from two fragrance companies. And she is now in a situation where she don’t know what to do should she report the issue to the company CEOs and stick to the work ethics and face the chance or losing her job and going back to her home country or should she just keep it to herself and not go by her ethics or just keep it to herself at least until she at least gets her M.S. basically the question is if she should let him get away what this or not ? Q1: Discuss how personal differences and preference can impact organizational ethics. In most of the times, some people have more power than other people for example let’s say professor have...
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...Discuss how personal differences and preference can impact organizational ethics. Organizational ethics are the written and unwritten rules, principles, and values held by the organization which help determine the standard of conduct and obligations of the employees within the company. These organizational ethics help govern the decisions made by employees every day in regards to what is right and wrong. Organizational culture binds the employees of the organization together through shared values, behaviors, and shared ideals. The organization’s culture also sets the standard for determining acceptable and unacceptable behavior and decision making within the organization. Furthermore, the organizational culture should reflect the shared and learned values, beliefs, and attitudes of its members. Everyone has their own personal difference and beliefs about what is considered right and wrong ethical behaviors which is due to the fact that everyone has a different background which impacted their ethical views and beliefs. There are plenty of factors that contribute to the development of personal ethics. These factors include family influences, religious beliefs, culture, personal experiences, and internal emotions or feelings. Family normally is the first to instill the sense of what is right and wrong into a child. Also the way parents and family members behave has a strong impact on as well because children easily absorbs the actions of the ones closest to them which...
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...“How Personal Can Ethics Get?” Discuss how personal differences and preference can impact organizational ethics. Personal difference and preference can impact organizational ethics is such a way where people can end up getting hurt. Personal difference and preference is one’s own way of how they think or how they feel about someone or something. Organizational ethics is the understanding of values of how an organization can integrate morals and main beliefs that differentiate right from wrong in the organization. (Hellriegel & Slocum, 2011, p.34) When integrating personal differences and preference with organizational ethics it maybe dissimilarity within the organization because not everyone believe in doing and saying things in ways others would prefer them. Everyone’s knowledge, skills, and abilities all differ and if there isn’t any ethical behavior being performed the company will not be able to run as smooth as they could be running. Using Valerie Young as an example, she had found out information about her boss having work on the side, which was unethical. He wasn’t being honest with the staff and Valerie Young got to wondering about what she was going to do. The way that she acted in this situation seems as if she was in the obedience and punishment stage. In the obedience and punishment stage people do the right thing mainly to avoid punishment or to achieve approval. (Hellriegel & Slocum, 2011, p.35) Valerie Young acted in favor to avoid punishment....
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...How Personal Can Ethics Get? Abstract This paper will discuss the ethical dilemma that Valarie Young faces as she discovers that her boss, Mr. Waters, has been involved in unethical behavior. It will provide an overview of how personal differences and preferences impact organizational ethics, how organizational policies and procedures can impact ethics and provide a recommendation for the actions that Valarie should take. How Personal Can Ethics Get? Valerie Young is a non-U.S. citizen working under a special work visa for a fragrance company Wisson in Chicago. She has discovered that her boss, Mr. Lionel Waters, is involved in kickback activities with the two fragrance companies that Wisson works with. Valerie is in the difficult situation of having to decide if she should report this or keep this information secret because of the possible personal costs to herself. Kohlberg’s model of moral development held that people develop morally, much as they do physically, from early childhood to adulthood. Individuals evolve, ranging from the lowest stage (obedience and punishment orientation) to the highest stage (universal ethical principles). Kohlberg also states that what defines a person’s stage of moral development is not the specific ethical choice, but the person’s ethical reasoning used to justify that choice (Hellriegel & Slocum, 2011, p.34). Ethics are the values and principles that distinguish right from wrong (Hellrigel & Slocum, 2011, p.10). Every...
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...Organizational Behavior How Personal Can Ethics get? John-Miguel Onkony Course: Bus 520 Fall Quarter 2011 1. Discuss how personal differences and preferences can impact organizational ethics? First of all, we have to know that every person that works in any company or organization has his or her differences and preferences ethics. Each individual has a family background which comes with different aspect of culture and values. Each individual has their own perception, and their own process to select, organize, interpret and respond to the information that is called perception process according to Hellriegel (2011). Now the perception process is influenced by many factors which are internal and external factors according to Helliriegel. Internal factors mostly are influenced by personality, learning and motivation and the external factors are influenced by cultural issues and communication. Before answering this question, we have to know that each and every organization has its own ethics. Any individual that work in any organization has to follow the ethics of that organizational. Organizational ethics can be defined as the ethics outlined by the organization and how the organization is expected to respond to internal or external...
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...Discuss how personal differences and preference can impact organizational ethics. Personal differences and preference can impact organizational ethics in either a negative or positive way. There are so many factors to take into consideration when examining the role of ethics. There is for example religion and culture where individuals have different beliefs and values. What might be acceptable to one group of people may not to the other. An individual’s personal difference is the combination of their physical and mental characteristics of how people behave, thinks and act. There is also gender preferences which I think could be a huge impact on organizational ethics. In the business world males are predominantly favored over females. On an average they have a better chance of being promoted and receiving higher salaries than females. The central assumptions are that employers force or pressure women to take less-skilled, lower-paying jobs and that society encourages young girls, not to mention young boys, to view these arrangements as natural.( Herrnstein 1985). Based on this excerpt one can determine how preferences can have a negative impact on the organization. People hold different views and ideas that may or may not cause conflicts in an organization. This can stem from ones belief or views as to how people ought to behave, especially in terms of qualities such as honesty, integrity and openness. Individuals, because of culture tend to think differently due to their...
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...How Personal Can Ethics Get? Personal differences and preferences can greatly impact an organizations’ ethics. With millions of individuals in the workforce today it is expected that the workforce be varied with different sexual orientations, religions, cultures, norms, attitudes, and expectations. In fact according to the United States Department of Labor more than half of the U.S. workforce consists of women, minorities, and recent immigrants (Toossi, pg. 10). With these types of statistics it is more important than ever for a company to create strong ethical environments. Ethical issues in organizations are widespread and multifaceted. “Some ethical issues involve factors that blur individual perceptions between right and wrong. As a result, some employees may differ in their opinions about what is ethical or unethical in various situations” (Hellriegel & Slocum, pg. 34). According to Lawrence Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development individuals all mature uniquely and at varying rates. Consequently when faced with the same ethical dilemmas a group of individuals may all exhibit a different response. As an example, employees in the first stage of moral development, Obedience and Punishment, would use simple reasoning in a situation and do the “right” thing to avoid being punished or to obtain approval. In comparison an employee in the sixth and final stage, Universal, would determine appropriate conduct based on their developed conscience. Not surprisingly leaders in an...
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...How Personal Can Ethics Get? Mahalia D. Wright Dr. B Grizzell, Strayer University Bus 520: Leadership & Organizational April 26, 2011 Abstract This assignment explores an integrating case in the end of our textbook and several articles researched to fully understand just about ethics can get in a organization. The articles and case study conduct detailed findings individual and preferences can impact the ethics of an organization. This paper also reviews an organization’s rules and regulations can impact ethics. This detailed discussion is presented on the reviewed case study about an employee at Wisson Fragrance Company located in Chicago, Illinois named Valerie Young. Valerie’s ethical dilemmas with her boss, Lionel Waters, will give this paper an opportunity to explain the recommendations given due to her circumstances. It has been long understood that employees truly make an organization. The population researched and discussed are MBAs consider vital when searching for a job and it has been proven that most job seekers will not work at a company they could not be proud to state their affiliation. This material suggests that organizations overestimate the level to which others share their views on ethical matters and factors an organization’s ethical practices, corporate social responsibility (CSR), treatment of employees, job training and growth as good impacts. The results from this assignment will reveal the importance of a organization reputation...
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...HOW PERSONAL CAN ETHICS GET? RICK LYMAN STEWART W. EDWARDS, PhD LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR – BUS 520 10/22/11 Ethics are generally formed from culture, behaviors, backgrounds, religions, and policies. Ethical behaviors are generally derived from experience and common sense. It is been argued that Ethics are not considered as benchmarks, however, groups of individuals constitute the power of firms and bad ethics will be driven out by the majority of opinion. Obviously issues that have ethical overtones are presented to everyone, and they make decisions on those issues. Are those ethical decisions? We try to imagine that only the 'right' choice is an ethical decision. But often all options may appear to be somewhat ethical. An ethical decision then is made when one fairly assesses the outcome on all those involved, even those barely involved. Considerations like legality and morality may have to be taken into account, but ethics is not about laws or morality if laws and morality harm rather than help. An ethical decision may ignore national boundaries and seek to help people on either side of them equally. This may not be legal, even though it is moral. An ethical decision might be to allow a polygamous family, for example, to go on living together in love and peace even though by most standards of morality and law this may be illegal and immoral because the ethical person will look at the good or harm that will come to the people involved. An ethical...
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...How Personal Can Ethics Get Johnnie Farmer Strayer University Leadership and Organizational Behavior – BUS 520 Christopher Hase January 15, 2011 How Personal Can Ethics Get? Depending on the leadership of an organization, ethical decisions can be influenced. Personal values and organizational policies and procedures help to understand decisions made in the case study “How personal can ethics get?” Background Can a persons ethical decisions be compromised in organizations? Personal values and organizational policies and procedures are the core of any organization. So the basis of this paper will be focused on explaining how personal differences and preferences can impact organizational ethics, how organizational policies and procedures can impact ethics and how they relate to a specific case study. How personal differences and preference can impact organizational ethics Before discussing how personal differences and preferences can impact organizational ethics first an understanding of organizational ethics must be reached. Organizational ethics consist of a set of values that are followed by an organization. So, how do personal differences impact these values? By conflicting with personal beliefs of an individual. For example, organizations values determines how they respond to personal differences. A persons personality “combines a set of physical and mental characteristics that reflect how a person looks, thinks, acts, and feels”(Hellriegel, Slocum 2011 p.70)...
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...“How Personal Can Ethics Get?” By: A. Tianna Brown Professor Paul Rossman BUS 520 - Organizational Behavior October 23, 2011 “How Personal Can Ethics Get?” “Ethics are the motivation based on ideas of right or wrong, the philosophical study of moral values and rules“, according to the World Net Dictionary (2011). I believe that ethics are based within a business like setting. Morals, although the same idea at hand, are used within a more personal setting - amongst individuals and how they are raised. Ethics and morals lie against the same barrier - right or wrong. The underlying question on contrary is, “How personal can ethics get?” “Case Scenario” Valerie Young is an immigrant worker employed as a Marketing Manager at Wisson Cosmetic Company in Chicago, IL. Valerie Young was hired by Lionel Waters to contribute her organizational, financial and marketing skills to the cosmetic and fragrance company. Lionel Waters, was hired by the CEO of Wisson at the time fourteen years prior and Lionel Water has been apart of ever since to start a new product line for the company’s mass fragrance market. Although Valerie Young was new to the beauty industry, she was eager to learn all that she could about fragrance scents and how they were developed. With working with Wisson over the years, Valerie thought that compared to her first year with the Wisson, she realized that the company worked with as many as eight different fragrance companies and once time and that...
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...Ethics are the moral principles used in an individual’s decision making process that influences a right or a wrong behavior. Ethical decision making is different for all individuals. Every individual thinks differently and behaves differently in various situations. “If individuals are products of biology, life would have no higher meaning and purpose. It is personality that gives individuals meaning and purpose.” (Hellriegel, 2011). Personality differences, policies and ethical dilemmas all affect decision making when making choices in organizations. Discuss how personal differences and preference can impact organizational ethics. It is nearly impossible to treat individuals alike because of this difference in personality. Culture, child and adult experiences and family and friends shape individuals into the beings they are today. Personality may be affected by emotional stability, self esteem, attitudes and emotional intelligence. These differences in personality impact organizational ethics because individuals faced with the same situation will behave in a different manner. What may seem right for one may not be the best decision for the group. One individual could be making self-serving decisions acting only in their own best interest. Another individual could base their approach solely on the balancing interest principle and base their decision on what is good for the group. “Organizational ethics is concerned with the structures, systems, practices, and protocols necessary...
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