...............................................................................................................................................................8 Data Sample ...........................................................................................................................................................8 Measures .................................................................................................................................................................9 Control Variables ...............................................................................................................................................9 Abusive Supervision (AS) ................................................................................................................................ 10 Ethical Leadership (EL) .................................................................................................................................. 10 Affective Commitment to the Supervisor (ACTS) ............................................................................................ 10 Job Security (JS)...
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...pressure-filled environments as tasks and goals must be met in order for certain exchanges to happen - workers keeping their jobs, moving up in the organization and getting paid for the services they offer. It can be extremely competitive, and with individuals highly charged and highly emotional, it can be a place of conflict between colleagues. It can be a place of clashing cultures and belief systems where discrimination can happen. Worse, it can be a place where harassment happens due to clash of cultures, competition and personality conflicts where authority and position can be abused to further personal interests. This discussion is going to center on one of these issues, providing a sample case. It will also present motivational and leadership theories that can be utilized to handle said issue. The Case: Workplace Bullying The workplace I am familiar with is a retail store. I have had experience in such a setting as working as a clerk and cashier in certain retail stores in my community has helped me to get started in life, providing me opportunities to learn at work and then study to move myself further in the qualifications and...
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...Employee Turnover at Academy Allergy Asthma & Sinus Center By Neil Patel doctorneil@me.com MGMT 591: Leadership and Organizational Behavior Professor Hallcom Aug. 20, 2014 Introduction: The Academy Allergy Asthma & Sinus Center located in Pueblo, Colorado. I have been working there on and off for the last 15 years of my life in various roles. My father is an allergist there and has been helping patients in Southern Colorado with asthma, chronic cough, wheezing, food allergies, drug reactions, reaction to insects, hives, and rashes. My father trained at National Jewish Hospital in Allergy Asthma Immunology and finished his fellowship and set out to have a little piece of his American dream, a private solo practice. My father started the clinic in Pueblo in the 1980’s and slowly opened satellite clinics in Colorado Springs, Canon City, La Junta and Alamosa. Currently has one other physician, and a physician assistant working with him, with a support staff of roughly 30 employees. The support staff includes two receptionists, two insurance clerks, one transcriptionist, one marketing paid intern and approximately 20 nurses. The market segment that this clinic caters to is lower-middle class, and middle class patients from the blue-collar town of Pueblo, CO. Most of these patients have Medicaid insurance. Patients come in as walk-ins many times without any prior appointments. Sometimes wait times can be longer than usual if many patients walk...
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...Unethical Leadership Richard Borashan Randall Carter Jr. Ting-Jung Hsu Ya-Hui Hu University of La Verne October 12, 2011 Table of Contents * Abstract * Introduction * What is the moral responsibility of a leader * Why is the moral responsibility of a leader important * Principals of ethical leadership * Five ethical behaviors * The impact of unethical leadership in organizations * Examples of unethical leadership * Conclusion * References Abstract The purpose of this paper is to understand the principals and the differences between ethical and unethical leadership. The research area includes areas of the characteristics of ethical and unethical leaders, how they operate, what places them in either category, and how the theories translate into the real world. Some examples of questions raised are as follows: What it means to be ethical and unethical, how can one distinguish between the two, and do people like this exist in the real world. Based on the research and the answers a guideline is set to define the difference between the two types of leaders. Introduction There is no question that many companies have prompted to carry out the ethics issues, and they are also making a set of the organizational cultures. In the mean time, some companies, which have further view, are also providing ethics training to managers. Nowadays, business always needs to pay attention to ethics and leadership, and its ethics is not only...
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...Effect of unethical article ACC 291 June 27, 2013 Julio Medina The unethical behavior of Enron Corporation The unethical habits and behavior's in accounting would be deceptive under financial analysis such as gainings, misuses of fundings, overstating the value of corporate assets or underreporting the existence of liabilities, overdoing revenue as well as understanding expenses. Another unethical systems would be securities fraud, manipulation of the financial markets and bribery. Enron is one of the greatest example that impact the unethical behavior. Enron corporation was an American energy company was formed from the merger of Houston Natural Gas including the inter north a Nebraska pipeline company. Enron employed around 21,000 people and was one of the worlds leading natural gas, pulp, electricity, and communications companies. Enron reported financial situations of were the company constant of institutionalized systematic planning accounting fraud having rumors of corruption to secure contracts in central America. Enron's ethics of coding was created on respect, integrity, communication, and excellence. These values were described as follows. Respect. We treat others as we would like to be treated ourselves. We do not tolerate abusive or disrespectful treatment. Ruthlessness, callousness and arrogance don’t belong here. Integrity. We work with customers and prospects openly, honestly and sincerely. When we say we will do something, we will do it; when we say we...
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...Discuss the importance of business ethics in an organization We hear about this word ‘Ethics” almost every day. We are all aware of the fact that there is a public consciousness which is related to ethics that is way much more important than it was few years back. It is obvious that business ethics are important throughout every area of the business. Most businesses are often more likely to become successful when they are known for dealing honestly with people from its employees and customers to shareholders and vendors. What does the word ‘business ethics’ really mean? Business ethics are nothing more than the code of values and principles that govern the actions of an individual, or a group of individual, regarding what is right and what is wrong. Business ethics are not just about the difference between right and wrong, but they are the actual application of that knowledge to business. Their absence in an organization can be harmful to the progress of any businesses or organizations. Every time a new business is launched, whether it is business of a sole trader or an enterprise, the owner or owners must first legally adopt a code of ethics. For small businesses, the code of ethics is usually unwritten and sometimes not even discussed and decided upon, but still it exists. Where as, for larger businesses such as a full-blown brick-and-mortar corporate enterprise, they often have written codes of ethics and employees are trained and required to adhere to it. It is...
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...eBusiness Research Paper The content regulation of the Internet has become the fore of public debate as an issue that both government and Net users are concerned about. Many companies have benefited from the use of e-Business in terms of revenue, capturing its marketing mix and driving shareholder value. However, governmental regulation can have a major effect on both the strategy and financial survival of e-Business. As technology continue to evolve at a rapid pace, governmental regulation struggles to keep up with its pace (McGraw-Hill). This paper will outline legal and regulatory issues with E-Business. Ethical issues such as invasion of privacy and deceptive advertising will be addressed. An e-Business failure and “Managing a Retail Website” simulation will be discussed that will include challenges that was faced and offering recommendations to overcome those challenges. In the beginning of the Internet era, there was no kind of regulation in place. As the internet and e-Business started to expand rapidly, government struggled in determining how rules and regulations would a key role in online business practices. In our text, its states new technology and the lack of physical borders associated with the Internet are changing the way societies are looking at laws (McGraw-Hill). Because of hacking and cyber crime which continue to become more common and complicated, it is necessary to set standards in order for business to continue to thrive. There are several key regulatory...
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...Child Abuse in the U.S.A Jennifer Bhikarry Barry University Sandra ROBERTS, Ph.D. Barry University Pembroke Pines, FL 33025 ADM 535: Applied Research Methodologies October 10th, 2011 Child abuse in the U.S.A I – INTRODUCTION Introduction Statement of the Problem: Purpose of the study Research questions II- REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE A - AN ADMINISTRATIVE NIGHTMARE, Deel, (1991) 1. A hidden type of abuse: a school leadership issue, Mitchell ( 2010) 2. Ethical or unethical? The Code of ethics of Georgia: a code to be followed. B. FAMILY RESPONSIBILITY 1. Physical child abuse: a cultural problem 2. Physical abuse vs. Discipline C - CHAPTER SUMMARY III- METHODS AND METHODOLOGY Method Sample selection Participants Instrument Implications for School Counselors and parents Results and Limitations IV- REFERENCES Child abuse in the U.S.A I – INTRODUCTION Introduction It has been said that children are our greatest natural resource. As such, children deserve care and protection to keep them from harm. This care currently includes thousands of professionals representing diverse disciplines such as medicine, law, social work, public health and education. Such diverse representation dedicated to this concern is indicative of the complexity of the problem of child maltreatment. Since the publication of The Battered Child in 1962 (Kempe et al), child maltreatment has been "on the radar" of these professionals who have endeavored tirelessly...
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...Ethics and Values: Good Guides Toward Occupational and Educational Success Learning Team C: Names of team members Axia College of University of Phoenix Abstract What are ethics and values? Values are what a person or society hold as important and a desired behavior. Ethics are sometimes based on a collection or one value. Ethics are what is considered morally right to one or more individuals. Upholding to good values and good ethical beliefs will greatly aid us in our lives, at our jobs, and in our schools. They effect the decisions that we make our successes or failures. Some of the important values to businesses, schools, and colleges are education, safety, a friendly and professional attitude, integrity, and honesty. Displaying integrity in a professional working environment will greatly benefit anyone. Integrity is a constant devotion to following guidelines based on good morals, ethics, and standards. Integrity will provide a safe and stable environment. Good integrity is found in all good managers. It is the key to leading by example. Ethics and values are the key to all good students, teachers, leaders, mentors, and all professionals. They are our guide through life, help us make good choices, and lead us to many life successes. What are values and ethics? What do they have in common? How can they effect our everyday lives? Because we are all diverse and have different beliefs toward different situations and concepts, we are forced to overcome...
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...Ethics or Savings; You Decide Good business ethics is just one of many ingredients necessary for a successful business. A person cannot have a successful business if you take advantage of stakeholders that support and have a vested interest in your business. History has shown time and again that, when the opportunity to grab quick profits presents itself, ethics can all too readily take a back seat to the entrepreneurial spirit. Incidents or abusive behavior, harassment, accounting fraud, conflicts of interest, defective products, and bribery and employee theft can happen at any business. Corporations have a social responsibility, an organization obligation to maximize its positive impact on stakeholders and to minimize its negative impact. Background Wal-Mart was founded in the early 1960s’ and today have stores nationwide providing goods and services to millions of consumers. The steps taken by this company in regards to addressing and correcting allegations of unethical issues greatly impacted their reputation and sustainability. The founder of Wal-Mart Sam Walton’s success was attributed to his belief in customer satisfaction and hard work. Associates had to abide by the “ten-foot-rule, look the customer in the eye, greet him or her, and ask if he or she needed help with anything. Over the next 40 years the company grew from a small chain of stores into the largest nongovernment employer in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Today Wal-Mart focuses on keeping cost low...
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...(1) What is the point at which a legal agreement is said to have occurred? Intend to contract. (2) What is the difference between an enforceable, unenforceable, express and implied contract? Unenforceable Agreement occurs when the parties intend to form a valid bar-gain but a court declares that some rule of law prevents enforcing it. Voidable Contract Occurs when the law permits one party to terminate the agreement. Void Agreement is one that neither party can enforce, usually because the purpose of the deal is illegal or because one of the parties had no legal authority to make a contract. (3) Describe a situation where a breach of contract has occurred. Most contracts are discharged by full performance or sometimes the parties discharge a contract by agreement. (4) If there is a breach of contract, what remedies are available? Compensatory Damages (Expectation Interest), Consequential Damages (Special Damages), Incidental Damages (Relatively Minor) (5) What conditions would constitute a discharge of a contract? A party is discharged when they no longer have any duties under a contract. (6) Describe the conditions for a discharge of a contractual obligation. Most contracts are discharged by full performance or sometimes the parties discharge a contract by agreement. (7) Describe types of acceptable performance of a contract. Strict and Substantial Performance. 1) Strict: requires one party to perform its duties perfectly. 2) Substantial: generally sufficient...
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...Managing Ethics in the Workplace Trinidad,Loudine T. BSE-4C Marketing Prof. Rose Marie Ramos Managing Ethics in the Workplace Managing workplace ethics promotes shared values that result in better cohesion of the workforce, and play a crucial role in the success of any organization Workplace ethics are the application of morality, or concepts such as good and bad, right and wrong, justice and virtue to all activities of the business. It closely relates to corporate social responsibility, but is much wider in scope. The scope of business ethics lies in two dimensions: 1. Workplace behavior ethics, or the illegal and questionable practices of individual managers, such as wrongful use of resources, mismanagement of contracts and agreements for personal gain, conflict of interests, and the like. 2. Business ethics issues, such as ethical dilemmas when making decisions, dealing with stakeholders, and the like. The primary requirement for managing ethics in the workplace is an understanding that workplace ethics is a continuous and on-going process ingrained to management practices, and not a deliverable defined project. It influences the way the organization functions, and remains independent of profits or product range. • Ethics Policy Irrespective of the dimension of business ethics, the basic requirement for managing ethics in the workplace is to have a strong ethics policy in place that makes the company’s ethics policy transparent...
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...Coty Hampton Business Ethics Cohorts 49 Ethical Conflicts in Ethical Companies There's a story making the rounds about a consultant who was called into a lumber company. Profits were slipping and management couldn't figure out what was causing it. All of the other performance measures were stable or increasing. The consultant did what consultants do, talking with a large number of employees. He observed several things about this particular lumber company, including the fact that working conditions were somewhat austere and that the dominant leadership style was autocratic, almost to the point of being abusive. In one of his many conversations, the consultant asked an employee how it was that, given the difficult working conditions and harsh leadership style, there wasn't more absenteeism, poor production or any of the other typical symptoms of an organization that was "hard" on its workers. The employee answered, "Oh that's easy. When we get frustrated, or angry we just feed the hog." Seeing the puzzled look on the consultant's face the employee explained. The "hog" was the big mechanical wood chipper at the back of the plant. All unusable scrap was fed to the hog to make the wood chips that go into particle board, one of the least profitable products the company manufactured. "When we get upset," he explained, "we take finished lumber and feed the hog." (And the company never knows where the chips came from. After all, you can't tell scrap wood from finished lumber once...
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...Ethics and Organizational Design- A Literature Review Abstract This literature review observes the views of organizational design and business ethics as they relate to one another in business. The first portion of this paper defines organizational design and business ethics to establish their importance and also examines managerial ethics and corporate social responsibility, sources of ethical principles. The second portion pursues to explain the relationship between business ethics and organizational design and how managers shape ethics through use of value-based leadership and formal structure systems. The third portion pursues to review the importance of ethics to organizational design and the structures that support or enforce ethical behavior in organizations. The fourth portion links literature reviewed and published over the past few years together based on their reference to ethics and organizational design. The literatures are linked together based on commonalities found in the opinions of the authors relating to a spiritual perspective, ethics and corporate structure, organizational and ethical theories, and ethical strategy. Last but not least, the review concludes with a summary of the important role that ethics plays in the organizational design and structure of a business and how it applies to members of management. Keywords: business ethics, organizational design, corporate social responsibility Outline INTRODUCTION I. Organizational Design/Business...
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...Law enforcement is a crucial component of the criminal justice system. One of the major problems in this component stems from people that apply with the wrong motives and ethics to enforce the law. On an average less than one half of one percent misfit the uniform, which makes the entire nation of police look bad. A police Officer is needed and wanted by the public, but yet still disliked and hated by them. He can settle differences, make decisions quickly, must be able to render aid, must know everything, must chase thugs and bombs, stake out long nights, write reports until his eyes ache to solve cases, accept low wages for salary, and must be dedicated. He is greedy, rude, has low self-esteem, unprofessional, disrespectful, dishonest, and abusive of power. Corrupt Officers are created within one’s self. They are immoral people from the start of mandate. Those worthy Police Officers that serve with good intent can be lead to corruption by power or greed, lack of community support and the lack of supervisory accountability. These three things need to be addressed in efforts to save the police force and minimize the number of corrupt officers that work in the field of police work. Police Officers that have never been in a position of authority can get carried away and abuse authority. They have aspirations of being one of the best officers in the department. They are made to believe that making the most arrest and writing the most tickets will put them above the...
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