How Personal Can Ethics Get? Assignment 1 Dexter L. Hunt Strayer University BUS520 Leadership and Organizational Behavior Dr. Chris Hase October 17, 2011 Introduction Good ethic practices must start at the leadership level and trickle down to the employees of the organization. The 21st century workforce is diverse which equates to personal differences within the group. These differences could cause conflicts within the
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According to (Merriam Webster, 2010) ethics is the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation. When faced with a dilemma in a professional environment, we are often searching for the right way for it to be solved. The conflict with this issue is determining if our method or “right way” is aligned with the “right way” of the organization. In recent years there has been an insurgence of people from multi-cultured backgrounds appearing within all types of organizations
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Community Ethics Toolkit (2008), which was based on the work of Jonsen, Seigler, & Winslade (2002); the work of the Core Curriculum Working Group at the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics; and incorporates aspects of the accountability for reasonableness framework developed by Daniels and Sabin (2002) and adapted by Gibson, Martin, & Singer (2005). Introduction Ethics is about making “right” or “good” choices and the reasons that we give for our choices and actions. Ethics promotes
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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
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Running head: ORGANIZATION AND PERSONAL ETHICAL DELIMMAS How Personal Can Ethics Get? Jamaine Williams Dr. Robert Culver Leadership and Organizational Behavior- Bus 520 January 29, 2011 Strayer University Introduction This is a case that many faces everyday in the workforce. Valerie Young was in the United States on a work visa that allowed her to work in the states as a non-citizen. While working at her job she ran across an unethical situation that was a violation of the company
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How Personal Can Ethics Get? Anita M. Cromwell Dr. Bruce Macdonald Leadership and Organizational Behavior BUS 520 Strayer University October 17, 2011 Abstract In this paper, I will discuss the ethical behavior of Valerie, who takes orders and Waters the man in charge. An examination of preferences and differences, due to a switch in procedures, that have lead to violations of company polices and leadership mistrust. In disclosing the dilemmas and stressors that Valerie faced, I will
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relationships between organizational justice and the factors that characterize cultural differences. This paper begins by briefly summarizing the nature of organizational justice and by identifying how justice is perceived. Hofstede’s five factors of cultural dimension model, which he developed in his seminal 1980 research on national cultures, is utilized to present characteristics of cultural differences. Ten propositions are then offered which relate to organizational justice and differences in cultural
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How Personal Can Ethics Get? BUS 520: Leadership and Organizational Behavior Introduction Valerie Young was faced with an ethical dilemma that involved her boss Lionel Waters. Lionel was the CEO of the fragrance company Wisson. Valerie accidently discovered that Waters was receiving kickbacks from the two fragrance companies that they used to create perfumes. She found an invoice for commissions and fees totaling almost $35,000. The company policy explicitly stated that: “Personal payments
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How Personal Can Ethics Get? BUS 520 January 25, 2010 An employee’s individual differences and preferences can be of significant impact to the entire organization. People come from different places, backgrounds, cultures and religions. Each person’s knowledge and ability to understand principles and distinguish right from wrong are different. Therefore, it can create serious ethical issues in organizations because those personal characteristics influence people in their making of daily life
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ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR Working With people Organizational behavior is the study and application of knowledge about how people&-&- as individuals and groups&-&-act in organizations. Its goals are to make mangers more effective at describing, understanding, predicting, and controlling human behavior. Key elements to consider are people, structure, technology, and the external environment. Previously known as human relations, organizational behavior has emerged as an interdisciplinary
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