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Learning Topic
Business Ethics
Weber (2008) offers a practical seven-step framework for ethical decision making. His illustrative
example of a plant closing and layoff decision is helpful in understanding how this framework may be
applied when confronted with an ethical dilemma for which there is no perfect solution.
The task of creating and nurturing an ethical organizational culture requires leaders and managers to be
proactive and strive to reduce the likelihood of ethical misconduct and the need to address an ethical
dilemma. As Meinert (2014) writes, this is not a small challenge. Referencing the 2013 National Business
Ethics Survey, she reports that "41 percent of US workers said they observed unethical or illegal
misconduct on the job." What makes this an even bigger challenge is that managers may be the primary
contributors to workplace misconduct, according to Ethics Compliance Initiative president Patricia
Harned (Meinert, 2014). In response to this challenge, the Society for Human Resource Professionals
(SHRM) Foundation published a book titled Shaping an Ethical Workplace Culture as a complementary
resource. The author, Stephen Olson (2013), offers a simple explanation of ethics, provides guidance on
how to assess one's workplace culture, identifies the building blocks of an ethical workplace, and
describes three types of cultures typically found in organization—those focused on compliance, those
that adopt a positive perspective toward ethics, and those that qualify as virtuous (i.e., those pursuing
the "highest standards and levels of compliance").
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Treviño (2008), one of the leading scholarly contributors to the work on ethical culture and climate,
emphasizes the importance of integration between an organization's formal and informal systems and
processes. She defines ethical culture as a "subset of the overall organizational culture that represents
the interplay of multiple formal and informal cultural systems that either work together or at cross-
purposes to support ethical or unethical conduct." Formal systems consist of ethics codes, ethics
training, and specific incorporation of attention to ethics in the organization's decision-making processes
and in performance appraisals. Informal systems include leaders and managers modeling behaviors, and
shared organizational stories of success in handling difficult ethical situations. Another very simple
explanation of an ethical culture and climate is offered by Michael C. Hyter, a senior partner at Korn
Ferry: "What it means to me is an environment that makes it easy to do the right thing and makes it
difficult to do the wrong thing" (Meinert, 2014, p.3). .
References
Meinert, D. (2014). Creating an ethical culture (cover story). HR Magazine, 59(4), 22 - 27.
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Olson, S.D. (2013). Shaping an ethical workplace culture. SHRM Foundation: Alexandria, Va.
Treviño, L. (2008). Ethical culture and climate. In R. W. Kolb (Ed.), Encyclopedia of business ethics and
society (Vol. 5, pp. 777-778). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications Ltd. doi:
10.4135/9781412956260.n298
Weber, J. (2008). Ethical decision making. In R. W. Kolb (Ed.), Encyclopedia of business ethics and society
(Vol. 5, pp. 779-781). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications Ltd. doi:
10.4135/9781412956260.n299
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