...ETH/316 Week 3 Assignment: Organizational Issues ETH/316 16 December 2013 Instructor: Dr. Tim The short film that was viewed was The Entrepreneurial Spirit: Birds barbershop. A little back-story on the film, the co-founders of the company; Jason Rapaport and Michael Portman each started out in other businesses and thought they needed to make a change in their own lives because of the jobs they held. They both felt like they needed to take the business out of their newly formed business. They wanted to bring back the small town barbershop to their hometown of Austin, Texas. The issues in the film that are the most important are; keeping the small business small while trying to expand in the process. Both Jason and Michael wanted to keep the relaxed atmosphere in their business while trying to expand at the same time. The hardest problem was to become a corporation without becoming a corporation. They like the small town feel of the business and wanted to keep this feeling to make the creative employees feeling empowered to be creative and in touch with their clients. Jason and Michael have opened five (5) shops in five (5) years. They had reached the goal of running a business but not getting to big to become the suite and tie affair they had left behind. The roles of the external social pressures in this story are the small town mentality and the feeling of relaxation when receiving a hair cut in their business. They paly music that one employee wants...
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...Incorporating Social Responsibility into Organizational Operations and Ethics Eth/316 In today’s society, the age of globalization has immensely changed over the years for various reasons. Globalization has allowed businesses to make an investment all around the world. For example, globalization allows underdeveloped countries to build an economy by creating job opportunities, better standard way of living for the people, build a long-term business relationship with other nations when it comes to goods and services, while at the same time increasing its business revenue. With the age of globalization, incorporating social responsibility into organizational operations and ethics is required because it promotes ethical behavior and allows for major corporations to dedicate themselves to achieving results in a positive manner. Being in charge of researching how a company could begin to incorporate social responsibility into its core principles would be to understand and exercise the company’s values by practicing good ethical behavior. The moral person dimension represents the “ethical part of the term ethical leadership and is key to developing a reputation for ethical leadership among employees. As a “moral person,” the executive is seen first as demonstrating certain individual traits (integrity, honesty, and trustworthiness) (Trevino, L. K. & Nelson, K. A., 2007). By displaying these traits, it the core would expand out into every function...
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...Organizational Ethics Jessie Banks ETH/316 October 27, 2014 Mario Madrid Organizational Ethics Business policies and practices regarding potentially controversial issues are part of organizational ethics. These ethics are often guided by the law; most business uses ethics in order to be accepted by the public or to have a successful business. Ethical principles can address organizational issues which help the organization to follow good practices within their organization or company. I am part of the Parkland Health & Hospital System organization, and this organization is committed to providing the best possible care to our patients as well as the community we serve. Therefore it is critical to our staff that we provide patient centered patient valued care that is ethical when caring for our patients. The care of our patients along with our business operation it is an important part of how we are looked upon. The main goals of our organization is to adopt a culture of integrity, and accountability with ethical behavior, in order to establish internal controls that will abide by the laws and regulations which will maintain ethical practice within our hospital. Within the healthcare field and especially public health (county hospital) external social pressures has a big influence on the ethics within this organization. As part of public healthcare this organization has to follow strict ethical practices because we are constantly under public scrutiny from external...
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...Ethics Final ETH/316 10/06/2013 In Ethics 316 we discussed what it means to not only be ethical but what it means to be socially responsible. In the next few pages we will be looking more in depth week by week on what ethical theories are, what it means to be socially responsible, and how something could be ethical but not legal. Ethical Theories During our first week we looked at Ethical Theories which included deontological ethics, utilitarianism, and virtue ethics. To go through and brake down each one individually would take way to long, so instead we will be looking more into Utilitarianism. To be able to discuss Utilitarianism we first need to understand what it is. According to Michael Boylan Basic Ethics, Second Edition (2009), “Utilitarianism is a theory that suggests that an action is morally right when that action produces more total utility for the group than any other alternative. Sometimes this has been shortened to the slogan, “The greatest good for the greatest number.” All ethics play some part in what we consider right and wrong, but Utilitarianism also looks at cause and effect. We see cause and effect in our everyday lives with the decisions we make even at a subconscious level. In business we look at what will benefit not only the business but ourselves and compare it to the outcome to determine if it will benefit what we are trying to achieve. A basic way to look at it would be “If I work hard and show them I am capable of not only...
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...Wal-Mart’s Organizational Ethics Leslie Conley ETH/316 October 1, 2015 Lawrence Pickett Wal-Mart’s Organizational Ethics Everyone in business is worried about doing what is right and not being seen as wrong. There has been a lot of attention focused on ethics and integrity in business these days. Every organization is driving and pushing for changes in these areas. Any thoughts of quick-fixes for ethical behavior in businesses can be scary, but good ethical behavior for any business is fundamental to its success. For entrepreneurs, ethical conduct is usually missed or ignored. Many business experts regard ethics as something to preach, but not acted on and, therefore, make it even more unethical. According to Suttle and Demand Media, Organizational ethics is the principals and standards by which businesses operate (n.d.). They are best demonstrated through acts of fairness, compassion, integrity, honor and responsibility. The key for business owners and executives is ensuring that all employees understand these ethics. One of the best ways to communicate organizational ethics is by training employees to company standards. With these thoughts in mind, we need to address organizational ethics with awareness and support for all involved within the organization. External social pressures influencing organizational ethics External social pressures have driven most companies in business to be aware of the expectations on them to act in a manner that is ethically correct. They have...
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...Organizational Issues Ethics and Social Responsibility/ETH 316 December 10, 2012 University of Phoenix Organizational Issues Ethics are a set of principles or values that help guide people to determine if something is right or wrong. They influence decisions that people make everyday. They are also the principles and standards of conduct the guide an individual or a group. In this week's assignment I opted for the EthicsGame simulations: “The Mysterious Blogger” and “The Veiled ID” The two simulations provided different ethical issues. “The Mysterious Blogger concerns the issue obtaining information that was illegally obtained to prove that an employee violated a non-disclosure agreement. Aaron Webb is an employee working in the MD department and posted confidential information in a blog concerning the company. An IT tech, Jamal Moore felt that his supervisor was not taking the situation seriously. He took it upon himself to hacked into Mr. Webb's home computer and found incriminating evidence. In “The Veiled ID” concerns the issue of protecting employees while also protected their rights and special needs. The company is beefing up security due to an unfortunate situation. The solution is to have each employee where security badges with a photo ID. Atsha Mullah religious belief is not to be seen without her veil to anyone other than her family and the photo would be in violation of that belief. In both simulations the solutions...
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...The Responsibility Project ETH/316 February 10, 2014 To truly understand where we are headed we must look to the past. The short film that is written about will show one to develop patience and acceptance of his fellow man even though it may not be the easiest thing to do. It is an great thing to see how such a simple childhood of one many can evolve into a man that defied such a great tyrant. The issues in this film such as prejudice and racism are important as they show the importance for someone that is experiencing them to rise above. This shows the level of character that was displayed by Jesse Owens when racial slurs were thrown his way; he simply dismissed them as being “the other guy’s problem” ("Jesse Owens", 2012). Also this film shows the ethics by an infamous person such as Adolf Hitler. An example of this is when Jesse Owens wins the four gold medals and is expected to shake the hand of the hosting company and yet Adolf chooses not to shake his hand because of the color of his skin. Another issue is the acceptance of someone with a different race as seen in the film when Jesse Owens boards the ship to travel across the Atlantic. He had faced racism and prejudice in America and yet when he boarded the ship, the fellow Olympians treated as one of their own. One would think that the external social pressures from the entire world would have an effect on Hitler and his “organization”, yet it did not. During...
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...The Responsibility Project Daphne Kennedy ETH/316 May 22, 2012 Dr Steve Wyre The Responsibility Project The film called Avalon is an inspiring one. The link to the film is: http://responsibility-project.libertymutual.com/films/the-entrepreneurial-spirit-avalon#fbid=NsvA-zAC7Jw. Two women endeavored to start a new small business in the city of Detroit. The business is baking bread. They show how brave they are and that healing a city can happen. They demonstrate how to use ethical principles to address organizational issues. The issues in the film involve the city of Detroit. This city experienced a huge downfall with the crash of the economy. According to Huffington Post the Detroit News reports that Detroit has an enormous unemployment rate nearly 50% because of layoffs of the major auto manufacturers (Huffington Post, 2011). The women who started Avalon saw the need to heal the city and create jobs. The organizational ethics portrayed in this film are amazing. As stated in the film by one of the founders who have three bottom lines. “One is the responsibility to the earth, one the responsibility to the employees and the other is the responsibility to the community” (Liberty Mutual The Responsibility Project, 2012). The external pressure of the later is major. The social pressure influencing this business decision is the community needed them to start this business. Their decision to start a business was a big risk, especially starting a business they...
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...Organizational Ethics Jonathan Zelsnack ETH/316 December 8, 2014 Carmela Davis Organizational Ethics There are a lot of different ways that the external social pressures that have an effect on the organizational ethics of a company. All companies have certain things that happen in the business because of what happened either when they were trying to figure out when setting up the company or from the ways that companies can be affected anymore these days. Back in the day Companies actually didn’t really have a lot to worry about when conducting business. They use to only have to worry about word of mouth and the news that’s how information got spread. Now anymore these days they have so much more to worry about. The reason why I say this is because of now the internet has changed a lot of how things are thought about and done. There is a lot of ways to affect companies on the internet because of things like Facebook and different types of things. The way that Facebook has such an effect on the culture of today employees of companies have to be careful on what they do or say. Most companies anymore if they hear or see that an employee has said something bad about the company then they think that they have the right to fire the employee. Mostly because it can look bad on the company wand with the search engines and everything else anything said bad about the company can actually hurt the reputation of the company and it is so easy to find information on the internet news...
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...Starbucks Organizational Ethics ETH/316 September 8, 2014 Starbucks Organizational Ethics Apparently, social media has become a major driver in business ethics in many organizations. Specifically, this is common with smaller businesses enterprises. Organizations are obliged to consider the social expectations within the areas of the general community involvement as well as environmental responsibility. Evidently, the information age has greatly boosted the need for social pressure. External environment determines the behaviors of employees of particular organizations. Due to the increased use of technology that has led to the creation of the information age, there has been enhanced social pressure since the word tends to spread much faster. Starbucks is currently considered among the top most ethical companies in the world. The firm in question has been making conscious efforts to be a responsible company conducting businesses in a more responsible manner. In particular, the business managers have been consistently compiling the firm’s annual report dedicated mainly to its CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). Social pressures create the necessary ethical transformation. In addition, social pressures in Starbucks have led to the operation of businesses in a manner that does not violate any major moral business guidelines or disregard any critical business rules. On the whole, this mainly based on the expectation of the society that the company has to...
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...Organizational Ethics Bridgette Ware ETH/316 February 2nd, 2015 Larry Lowry Organizational Ethics I am a fleet administrator for a company called Lazer Spot, Incorporated. Lazer Spot Incorporated, provides transportation yard management services to several large companies such as Gatorade, Amazon, Niagara Bottling, Kimberly Clark and Unilever to name a few. As a fleet administrator, I provide administrative support to the Vice President of Fleet, the director of fleet, Vice President of Operations, regional managers and to managers in the field. I have chosen this company for this week’s paper and will attempt to describe how ethical principles can address organizational issues. In this paper I will also address the role that external social pressures have in influencing organizational ethics. How might these issues be relevant to organizational and personal decisions? And lastly we will look at the relationship between legal and ethical issues? At lazer Spot, our values and goals are to provide the best in class customer service, our continuous commitment to safety and accountability to our customers. As the company is geared towards providing excellent customer satisfaction to our clients, we are somewhat at the mercy of the clients. Reason being, we have to tailor our services to the wants and need of the customer. Could this pose an ethical dilemma? Of course! Within every industry, there are rules and guidelines that are established and must be adhered to. In...
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...Organizational Issues February 26, 2014 ETH/316 Ethic Game Dilemmas The Veiled ID The ethical issues presented in the simulation The Veiled ID is how to balance the need to maintain appropriate security for all employees, while acknowledging the religious expression of a particular employee. The decision-making steps that I took to address these issues were based on the positions that are held in the simulation game. To prevent possible discrimination lawsuits against the company and also to safeguard the interest of the shareholders these decisions were made. Starting with the investors to the employees of the company will be affected by this ethical decision that arise from this dilemma. The community in itself as a whole will also be affected by this decision. The ethical perspectives that I use to make my decisions in the simulation is morally doing what is right first for the main shareholders and then the community. While coming to this decision one must keep in mind that they are not the only one being affected by the matter at hand. If policies of the company have been violated then it is the company’s duty to make a comprehensive decision that will be in the best outcome for the company and its shareholders. And besides from following company policies and procedures and just do what is right it is again about protecting the best interest of the shareholders and the best interest of the company. There is also a substantially...
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...The Responsibility Project Hot Seat ETH/316 Deborah Stevens June 25, 2014 The Responsibility Project Hot Seat http://responsibility-project.libertymutual.com/films/hot-seat How many times in the workplace have we passed the buck? No one wants to admit it but more times that often many of us have passed the blame or given the responsibility of something that we should have done to someone else. This paper will discuss the importance of the issues of the Hot Seat film. How the role of external social pressures influence organizational ethics. How the issues are relevant to organizational and personal decisions. The relationship between legal and ethical issues as shown in the film will be addressed. Lastly, I will describe how ethical principles can be used to address organizational issues. The issue in the Hot Seat film was “passing the buck”. Passing the buck is defined as a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another. In the film there is a broken chair that keeps getting switched out from one person to another, instead of simply fixing the chair. The chair is literally going from one person to another and each individual knows that the chair is going around. The employees will not leave his or her desk in fear of having their chair swapped out for the broken chair. In the end one person takes his perfectly working chair and swaps it for the broken chair; taking it to his desk and rigging it to work properly. This issue is important because...
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...The Responsibility Project Amanda Pardo ETH/316 May 14, 2014 Clarence Morris The Responsibility Project In 2008 Liberty Mutual created a program called the Responsibility Project. Liberty Mutual is an insurance company that provides insurance for homes, automobile, and life insurance. This program was created to help discuss and create awareness about responsibility, safety, and ethical matters in the community and on a global scale. Some of the current articles are making teen drivers safer, and cultural insensitivity. Liberty mutual feels that it is a part of every person’s responsibility to make society and the world better. The topics that are discussed by the project are important because the issues affect multiple people and by being discussed could change things in society for the better. One of the topics that is being discussed is the a poll that way taken by the Associated Press and the German Research Institute GFK. The poll showed the Americans are becoming more distrustful of each other. This distrust can cause corruption in companies. In today’s society, only one third of Americans believe that most people cannot be trusted. This affects companies and employees as well as customers. External pressures have a large affect on businesses. Business ethics include running a business that abides by the laws but it also includes being a good citizen and contributing to the community. Ethics also involves how a business treats its customers. External...
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...Organizational Issues – Ethics Game ETH/316 December 12, 2012 Organizational Issues – EthicsGame The EthicsGame is a simulation program of University of Phoenix on real-world situations. It was written as a tool to help educate students on ethical decision-making. The simulation The Mysterious Blogger was chosen by the author to analysis is based on a company called G-BioSpot. A leading edge sports nutrition and supplements company founded by Carson Nelson, and Rian Miller. After working in the nutrition industry 10 years theydecide to open their own company (University of Phoenix, 2012). The author will review the simulation using the Barid Method decision-making process, and provide G-BioSpot with the best solution on their dilemma. The Mysterious Blogger The scenario in this simulation is the organization has a new computer security system and an employee has violated the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) by posting information about the company on a public blog. The blogger posting are about the security system and products. One of the IT employees without consent of the company hacks into the bloggers account and obtains the identity. The IT employee forwards the information to the Manager of Safety and Efficiency. Jorge from IT sees the anonymous e-mail sent to the manager and reveals the identity of both. The issue the Manager of Safety and Efficiency has is to whether use the information provided illegally to discipline or fire Jamal Moore (IT) and Aaron Webb (blogger)...
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