Culture, Governance and Ethics Written By: Bilge-Kagan Ozturk 2007 Abstract This paper examines the critical importance of an ethically based corporate/organisational culture to ensuring company-wide ethical conduct. Testament to this topic I use the case of Enron and its ethical demise to successfully support my argument and highlight the need of top level management to be the main proponents of this culture to allow lower level employees to adopt a behaviour of moral reasoning. The
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These issues include, but are not limited to the following: wage rates and benefits working conditions such as job security, workplace safety, temperature, ventilation and other standards, working hours, breaks, vacations, worker compensation and unemployment benefits discrimination against women, older workers, cultural and religious minorities human rights violations such as child and prison labor environmental standards. As is the case in the United States, the “independent contractor” status
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2006 Litzky, Eddleston and Kidder 91 The Good, the Bad, and the Misguided: How Managers Inadvertently Encourage Deviant Behaviors by Barrie E. Litzky, Kimberly A. Eddleston, and Deborah L. Kidder* Executive Overview Recent estimates of the costs associated with deviant behavior in the workplace are staggering. While part of the managerial function requires the establishment of rules and policies that promote good customer service and product consistency, managers who lead with a
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animals have moral rights, which the pursuit of incremental reform may undermine by encouraging human beings to feel comfortable with using them. Gary Francione's abolitionist position promotes ethical veganism. He argues that animal rights groups that pursue welfare concerns, such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), risk making the public feel comfortable about its use of animals. He calls such groups "the new welfarists." PETA argues that Francione's criticism does little to help
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employees. Naturally issues are going to arise in any organization, but when there is a company as large as Wal-Mart, these issues will be public and become headline news. Wal-Mart has been the center of attention over the past decades regarding the ethical and unethical practices within the organization. Many lawsuits were filed by current and previous employees in regard to the unethical practices of Wal-Mart. Some of these unethical practices are making employees work-off-the-clock, sexual discrimination
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to maintain academic integrity. By participating in courses and taking an exam, Helen agrees to bide by the policies set down by the university. It is like entering into a contract or making a promise. If Helen accepts her friend’s offer and read the copy of the final exam, she will fail to maintain academic integrity and break her promise to the professor. It is unfair between Helen and the other students if she takes advantage of the copy of the final exam because it will be unequal to the other
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The function of leading is the process of motivating employees to perform at their best. Hershey’s is a company that truly values their employees as the company’s website clearly states. Hershey’s mission statement reads, “Bringing sweet moments of Hershey happiness to the world every day. To Hershey’s employees this means winning with an aligned and empowered organization…while having fun.” This is a reflection of the organizations culture and its dedication to company employees. Controlling
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throughout the essay. Other ethical issues that come into the picture are Kant’s. No matter how intelligently one acts, the results of human actions are subject to accident and circumstance; therefore, the morality of an act must not be judged by its consequence, but only by its motivation. If sports were motivated by Kant’s theory, then winning would not be as important, but the success of participating, and being part of a team, would be the successful outcome. Another ethical
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Running Head: LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATION Title: How Personal Can Ethic Get? Name: Raymond McCall Instructor: Dr. Orsini School Name: Strayer University Course: Leadership and Organization Date: 1/23/2011 Discuss how personal differences and preference can impact organizational ethics. People have different attitudes towards their work due to their preferences. This implies that there exists natural tension between people values or preferences and organizational ethics (Giacalone
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Chapter 1: What is CSR Organizations can be classified in 3 categories: 1) For profits: Seek gain for their owners 2) Government: Exists to define rules and structures of society within which all organizations must operate 3) Non-profits: Emerge to do social good when the political will of the profit motive is insufficient to address societies needs Stakeholders: Includes all those who are related in some way to a firm “A stakeholder in an organization is any group or individual who can
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