from the Virtual Organization Web site and create an ethics program plan for the organization. Use the following scenario as the premise for your project: You have just been hired as the ethics advisor of an up-and-coming organization. Your manager asked you to design a new ethics program for the company. The new ethics program must explain ways in which the organization can best exemplify and maintain business ethics. You present your ethics program plan to management in a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft®
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terms of a pyramid. At the top of the pyramid are the great leaders who act boldly, set examples for us, and considerably influence other people. At the base of the pyramid are cowards, who inspire no one and change nothing. The vast majority of managers fall into the middle. They are simply ordinary people who collectively make a monumental impact on society. They don't tackle strategic or critical situations. Rather, they solve every day, practical problems that appear relatively
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General Policy and Procedures, and moral obligation of the multinational organization. Introduction Businesses are faced with very real ethical dilemmas where the appropriate course of action is not really clear. Some of these are the ethical obligations of a multinational corporation toward their employment conditions, human rights, environmental pollution .Understanding the nature of ethical problems and deciding what actions to pursue when confronted with .Ethical problems frequently occur in International
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what is “right” and “wrong” (moral norms) which may be incompatible and/or incommensurable with your own personal moral norms. International engagement involves working within other societies where you are likely to be faced with different norms. Deciding when it is appropriate to act under one norm or another requires careful consideration. An example of a moral norm may be: “it is wrong to physically harm a child, and those who do so should be punished.” An ethical dilemma in your international
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paper. The paper will be broke down into four parts. The first and second part is an analysis of Goodwill Industries and Walgreens including the ethical dilemma that it faced, the way they responded to this ethical dilemma and outline of the legal, social, or political outcomes as a result of those actions. The third part is a personal reflection of the ethical actions that were taken by both of these organizations. The last part a is the critique of the actions of these organizations based on two philosophical
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in any organization. The position of the individual within the organization would dictate the impact that they would have in the organizations ethics. If the organization adopts a grassroots approach they would attract employees who have stronger ethical values. An employee who is disgruntled would obviously have a negative impact of the organization. However the trend setter would be the leaders within the organization they would be the ones that would have the greatest impact on the ethics of the
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important issues about leadership ethics and social responsibility. The focus is on leaders rather than on a general treatment of business ethics, and includes a summary of the theory of ethics. Skill building is also incorporated into this chapter. CHAPTER OUTLINE AND LECTURE NOTES Being ethical and socially responsible is part of being an effective leader even if many financially successful executives are unethical and socially irresponsible. I. PRINCIPLES OF ETHICAL AND MORAL LEADERSHIP
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Confidentiality/Privacy Issues This article presents a case study highlighting the conflict between an individual’s right to privacy and the rights of patients and staff to know when a professional standard has been breached. The process by which the administrator determines a course of action is reviewed in the context of workplace realities through an ethical analysis. The growth of information systems and the increased involvement of third parties in decision-making have created new issues regarding confidentiality
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Managers’ Ethical Evaluations of Earnings Management and Its Consequences* ERIC N. JOHNSON, University of Wyoming GARY M. FLEISCHMAN, University of Wyoming SEAN VALENTINE, University of North Dakota KENTON B. WALKER, University of Wyoming 1. Introduction and motivation The purpose of this study is to investigate, in an experimental setting, how favorable versus unfavorable organizational consequences influence managerial responses to an employee’s earnings management behavior. We focus on
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Resource (HR) Management and discusses various ethical and motivational aspects, including ethical values and ethical decision-making. Ethics is an integral and vital aspect of Human Resource Management since most of our actions and decisions have ethical manifestations with consequential ramifications in the HR domain. There is a general belief that ethics is concerned only with financial propriety. Whilst this aspect certainly involves ethics, ethical management is all encompassing concerning
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