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Week 1 Assignment;
Organizational Ethics
Billy Arnette
BUS 610 Organizational Behavior
Instructor: Bevalee Vitali
December 19, 2011
Table of Contents
TOPIC PAGE
ABSTRACT……..……………………………………………………………………...3
ETHICAL ISSUES IN ORGANIZATIONS……...……………………………………4
INDIVIDUAL IMPACTS ON ORGANIZATIONAL ETHICS...…………………….5
ORGANIZATIONAL INFLUENCE ON EMPLOYEES ETHICS..………………….7
WORKS CITED………………………………………………………………..………8
Abstract
Due to the nature of business organizations are faced with ethical issues daily. The rise in the importance of the stock market in the public sector coupled with investors expecting quick returns are driving management to make decisions that can create ethical dilemmas for their employees. The increased pressure on an organization to perform and higher than normal unemployment are a recipe for increased unethical behavior by an organization and its members.
Ethical issues are also a major concern in organizational behavior because individual influences impact the ethical behavior. The organizations leadership is in a position to influence the ethical behavior of its employees by establishing the right culture.
Ethical Issues in Organizations
The traditional viewpoint on facilitating ethical behavior within an organization is to assume that the individuals alone are responsible for misconduct, either illegal or unethical (Vance, N., Harris, A. 2011). The structural viewpoint is opposite of the traditional viewpoint in that organizational behavior factors account for most of the misconduct in an organization. Because of these two viewpoints identifying where the breakdown in ethical decision making occurred is one of the major issues in organizational ethics.
Another big issue in organizational ethics is highlighted in the recent Victoria Secrets child labour law discovery. Victoria Secrets promises its customers that the cotton it uses to manufacture its clothing is organic and free of the typical foreign...