Building an Ethical Organization Part 2
Holly Regan
HSM/230
January 12, 2014
Vicki Grant
Building an Ethical Organization Part 2 Establishing and sustaining a successful ethical organization with a solid morally and ethically envisioned foundation takes continuous effort by all members of the organization. Every member has a particular role to be played which contributes to the organization’s mission of improving the quality of life of homeless teens and their families and the ethical obligation of earning the community’s trust. Royalty House is a non-profit organization that is staffed and governed by an experienced, professional, diverse group of volunteers whose target population are homeless youth ranging in age between
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Royalty House’s mission statement provides the organization with a path to achieve its objectives and goals and supports the ethical system of this organization.
Royalty House’s mission statement conveys to the greater community that Royalty House is committed to the populations overall well-being and is equipped with the highest level of professional leadership to achieve each client’s level of need. Manning (2003) stated, “The architecture of organizations includes the forms for programs and service delivery. This architecture can provide innovative or needed ethical projects, such as developing a unique service system or serving a currently underserved population,” (p. 236).
Royalty House Values Statement:
Royalty House respects and fosters loving, family centered values. Royalty House believes that every individual deserves a chance at new beginnings and the opportunity to obtain the necessary tools to become self-reliant and self-sufficient in adulthood. The NASW Code of Ethics principal states: that social workers’ primary goal is to help people in need and to address social problems. Social workers elevate service to others above self-interest. Social workers draw on personal knowledge, values and skills to address social problems and help people in need. Social workers are encouraged to volunteer some portion of professional skills with no expectation of significant financial return (pro bono service), (Manning, 2003, p. 283).
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Consider an organization you were/are currently involved with. After providing a short overview of your organization, reflect on the Seven Levels of an Ethical Organization, found in the Gebler article and slide deck, and write a paper answering the following questions (not more than three pages - format of your choosing):
Every organization has a set of ethical standards that they abide by. The organization ethical standards purposes: it build the organization confidence in the community , keep the employees uniformed in what the organization strive to have as organizational behaviors and help the employees have guidelines to make ethical decisions that protects the organization.
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Traits associated to a psychopath include irresponsibility, manipulation, grandioseness, lack of empathy, asocial tendencies, inability to feel remorse, refusal to take responsibility for one's actions and superficial relations with others. Modern day corporations display every one of the previously listed characteristics. Is it right that an institution, whose power now rivals that of the State that once created it to seek the better welfare of its citizens, display the psychological traits of a dangerous personality disorder? Many say no: there is a rising discomfort with the corporation and its pervasion into every sphere of human life and it is this uneasiness that has prompted many academics to further study the corporation and its
How do ethical values shape behavior in organizations? According to Saleem (2014), ethical values and behaviors of an organization are made up of organizations institutionalized philosophies along with the moral ideologies of its members. In addition, the codes of ethics help to enhance the moral reasoning of employees while shaping their behaviors towards morally questioning unethical situations. Organizational leaders are encouraged to build cultures of trust with leadership who establish concerning goals employees pursue y setting examples for others to follow (Crosbie, 2008). The leaders whom are able to build training and development throughout their organization helps design and build relationships characterized by collaborative behaviors those results in mutually beneficial outcomes (Crosbie, 2008).
The ethics and values that an Organizational Development (OD) professional follow are based on three philosophical principles. The three principles help to build the foundation of ethical values are utilitarianism, individual rights and distributive justice. Utilitarianism is defined as doing the greatest good for the greatest number (South University Online, 2015, para. 3). Individual rights incorporates the rights that each individual has that should be respected (South University Online, 2015, para. 3). Well distributive justice states that people that perform similar jobs should receive similar outcomes (South University Online, 2015, para.3). This foundation ensures that the action that creates the largest amount of good for the most amount of people is chosen, but it also ensure that each person is treated fairly as an individual.
The majority of organizations have an obligation to build and operate their business with strong moral principles. Leaders should have the confidence and be comfortable with their decision to move their organization in a particular direction. Whether your company is taking a new direction or not, one of the many moral philosophies to apply is that of privacy. To be accountable by rules and concepts that prevent others access to employee actions and communication. To be certain that private information is never exposed to the public, without the rule of law. Any organization that builds upon a reputation of privacy, will eventually be recognized as having an ethical and moral philosophy. Another moral obligation for organizations is to fire, or train poorly performing managers. It’s rare that any major transformation effort goes perfectly smoothly, as people start along the learning curve, progress will follow. Poorly trained and poorly performing managers only prevent your organization and moral philosophies from advancing.
Situations in which, on moral grounds, persons ought both to do and not to do something. Such a definition implies that issues of conflict and choice are central to moral dilemmas.
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Commitment to ethical behavior is one of the trends with human behavior in organizations described by Uhl-Bien, Schermerhorn and Osbron (2012). Authors define the commitment to ethical behavior as a fundamental part in creating the prosperous company. Workers of the institution, especially leaders, should be aware of the influence of unethical behavior on the success of the company. The trust of customers can be easily disrupted by illegal actions and dishonest behavior leading to the failure of the business (Uhl-Bien, Schermerhorn & Osbron, 2012)
Ethics and social responsibility are integral components in developing a strategic plan while considering stakeholder needs. As such, ethics and social responsibility should be deemed as an essential strategic concern within all organizations. Ethics and social responsibility has the capacity to make or break an organization; the success of an organization’s strategic plan is dependent upon it. This paper will explain the role of ethics and social responsibility in developing a strategic plan while considering stakeholder needs. Lastly, this paper will elaborate as to how my ethical perspective has evolved throughout the program.
There are thousands of companies and startups that begin each day with a goal in mind. What that goal is varies depending on the type of organization it is and who the owner is. However there is a common objective of any organization and that is getting an individual to use their skills effectively to help the cause of your organization. The individual will always have their personal goals and aspirations for themselves and they might not necessarily match up with those of your company. The questions that has spanned decades about management is how to motivate the individual into working as hard as they can towards someone else’s goal?
A whistleblower is said to be an individual who discloses information which is considered as unethical about an organization either to the general public or the top management of the organization. One of the key characteristics of a whistleblower is courage. So as to survive the war, whistleblowers must be fearless and courageous since the battle between them and the organization might last for an extended period. Whistleblowers are also known, to be honest individuals who stand by the truth. They are expected to provide correct unethical practices of an organization. Another essential characteristic is that whistleblowers are often guided by their ethical standard which is mostly known to be very high (Schmidt, 2016). Their moral values and beliefs cannot be easily changed or influenced. Whistleblowers are also well-educated individuals since they have to know their rights before engaging in war with corporate organizations. They are mostly loyal to ethics than they are to the organization.
The subject of morals is covered inside the money related operations of different organizations. The term moral alludes to the arrangement of good standards by which individuals behave by and by, socially, or professionally. In the business aspect the term business morals alludes to the use of the ethical compass to the vital and operational administration of the business (Velasquez and Velazquez, 2002).
There are anywhere from 500,000 to 2.8 million homeless youth in the United States alone. (“Homelessness and Runaway”). There are different reasons as to why they’re without a home range drastically from a desire for freedom to a severe family conflict that has forced them out of their homes. There have been countless stories about ragged boys and girls in the United States struggling to survive during the changing seasons, using tunnels and bridges as their homes, cardboard as their beds, and forming new families on the streets to remain sane.