Employee Ethics

Paper Summary:

The writer of this research paper explains that employees of the company in this work have been observed by a fellow employee who has noted unethical issues in the workplace and specifically that employees are not honest with one another or with customers and moreover, recently employees of the company have sold products and services with known flaws. The writer points out that the company's decision-making appears more focused on avoidance of reprimands than on pursuing the 'right' or ethical behavior. The researcher has spoken with the company CEO concerning this issue in the organization with the CEO asking the researcher in this work what might be done to improve the situation. The writer justifies the need for the ethical response of employees and organization and secondly develops and defends measures that would be effective in bringing about an improvement in the organization's ethics and ethical decisions. Finally, this work also explains how the ethical climate of the company might be improved.

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Outline:
Statement of the Problem
Purpose of the Study
Importance of the Study
Methodology
Literature Review
Findings of the Study
Recommendations for More Research

From the Paper:

"The findings of the foregoing review of literature include the finding that ethical behavior in an organization does not 'just happen' but is intentional, incorporated, integrated, disseminated, communication, and woven into the very fabric of the organizational culture. Ideologically, ethics are demonstrated by those in leadership roles and younger employees are able to follow by the examples set in leadership. Ethics are existent or absent in an organizational culture are rarely in reality in what is commonly known as the gray area of what is acceptable. Ethical or unethical behavior is interwoven into every nook and cranny of the organization including purchasing, and sales, upper, middle and lower management levels. Ethical behavior either 'is' or 'is not' within the organizational behavior framework. Changing of the ethical culture of an organization requires training older and younger employees differently and requires individualization for different types of individuals in the organization. The findings that are considered key in this review of literature is as related that ethical behavior integrated into the organizational culture through leadership role models in ethical behavior. Finally, this work has reviewed the roles of Top- and Middle-management in supporting ethical behavior in the organization's culture as well as has this work related the roles of supervisors, coworkers and employees toward changing the organizational ethical culture."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Seligson, Levanon Amber; and Choi, Laurie (2006) Critical Elements of an Organizational Ethical Culture. Ethics Resource Center and Working Values. Research Report. 2006.
• Vallarion, Cynthia Waller (2007) Is Your Ethics Program Working. Financial Executive. May 2007
• Lloyd, H; and Mey, M (nd) An Ethics Model to Create and Sustain an Ethical Organizational Culture. Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
• Cottrell, Colin (2005) Organizational culture the key to improving workplace ethics. 24 Oct 2005. Management Issues Journal.
• Gebler, David (2006) Creating an Ethical Culture: Value-based Ethics Programs Can Help Employees Judge Right From Wrong. May 2006. Annual Conference Topic.

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