Introduction – Ethical Climate Survey
This paper will provide the requirements for an ethical climate survey for a scrapbook company. First, this paper will provide a brief description of the Decorative Scrapbooks Company (DCS), a crafting company, and one to which I will be providing my consulting services. Next, it will recommend key steps the organization can take to create a strong culture. Further, this paper will develop an introductory paragraph to the survey explaining the tie between organizational culture and ethical conduct. Also, it will designate at least two groups within the organization who will take the survey, as well my rationale as to why these two groups should complete the survey. Next, this paper will develop a one paragraph invitation to participate in the survey, explaining the purpose and intended use of the survey. Further, it will develop the criteria for conducting the ethical climate survey of the organization, ensuring the criteria identifying the target audience, the method by which I will administer the survey, and the instructions for participants on accessing and completing the survey. Also, this paper will provide at least
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DSC is a medium sized company that offers its customers a chance to purchase complete, hard copy scrapbooks and accessories to accentuate their scrapbooks. Additionally, DSC offers several scrapbooks, in quite a few sizes, to allow the craft-minded people in and around the Rockville area to express their creativeness in the scrapbooking industry. The company has 22 employees that work in the warehouse compiling scrapbooks, and sales personnel who work in the two stores in the local area. Unfortunately, the management has expressed some concern on potential ethical concerns surrounding their employees. I will consult and provide solutions to their ethical
The authors purpose is to make the reader understand organizational climate defined as the policies, practices, and procedures that are rewarded, supported, and expected in an organization regarding a specific organizational domain, such as safety, innovation, customer service, and ethics such as climate for service, climate for safety and ethical climate. The climate for service can be evaluated by employees and customers on the level of customer service. Generally, when it is a strong climate the results will be the same. The climate of safety refers to employee perceptions of an organization's policies, practices, and procedures regarding safety that are rewarded, supported, and expected from employees. The ethical climate can be thought of as shared perceptions among group members regarding what constitutes ethically correct behavior and how ethical issues should be handled within an organization. The assessment of the organizational climate may reveal that the strategic direction of the organizational interest may not be perceived in organizational practices, policies and procedures and the organization may need to redesign to better align with their interest.
Every business develops a set of ethical principles that they abide by. The business ethical principles intentions: it construct the business certainty in the community , maintain the employees liveried in what the business attempt to have as structural conducts and aid the employees consume principles to make ethical choices that guards the business. In a culture with a diverse assessment structure and augmented judgment visibly by companies with changeable ethics and interests, there appears to be further difficulties on business individuals to make tougher ethical assessments. In our day-to-day performances, we depend on on our ethical principles to monitor us in the correct path and do the correct things. The substance of any efficacious and perpetual business is they segment a mutual ethical matter concentrating on presenting and generating value along with allocating their business values with the citizens they network with on a day-to-day basis.
Under this task I will explain the ethical issues that business needs to consider in its operating activities and how a business they could improve the ethical of their operations and also I will evaluate the influence of stakeholders exert in one company.
War is an ugly business. As a soldier, you suddenly find yourself in a situation where you are fighting for your survival, and together with your brothers in arms have to determine what level of violence to apply to solve your mission and survive. In general, human rights, international laws of war, rules of engagement, expectations and demands of the society, and Army values guides our actions on the battlefield. I will in this essay explain how a commander sustains an ethical command climate in war and explain some major factors that challenge an ethical command climate. One approach to understanding how a commander sustains an ethical command climate in war is to understand the factors that contribute to the opposite.
In this article the authors present well researched information to prove their point that global warming could lead to a disruption of the connectedness within different populations of animals and could even cause a reorganization of species communities. The authors provide an ample amount of information about what global warming has already done to animals in order to support their predictions of what this means for the future. Despite having more than enough evidence to support that global warming is affecting animals, a majority of the paper is hypotheticals about what could happen for the future thus making it less credible. The authors do an exceptional job of using ethos and pathos throughout the piece. They use ethos when discussing
The problem to be investigated is the application of business ethics. In the business world, ethics are extremely important. Ethics are prime elements that help a business to grow and to become more productive. It is by applying proper business ethics that a business can operate in a moral or ethical business environment and managed to conduct all activities in a manner that maximizes profits while not compromising all other non-economic concerns(Schwab, 1996). Businesses have over the years failed to nurture business ethics in order to fulfill shareholders' interests and to have a culture that is oriented towards profit maximization and high performance(Jennings, 2012; Sims & Felton, 2006). This has led business to have gray areas in their activities. Gray areas are those situations or problems that do not fit exactly into any ethical analysis. These are the activities which may be represented to be immoral as a result of lying and false representations on the part of the business.
James Inhofe, Barton’s ally, in synchrony, went even further to dispute their research or claims. According to Mann, Inhofe deliberately issued false claims or reports disputing their work or research. Inhofe went so far as to publish a book trying to dispel their research and the theories of global warming. In his book Inhofe tries to convenience readers that there is a conspiracy taking place amongst scientist like Mann behind and their global warming and climate
The mission of the United Nations is simple yet effective, “By committing to sustainability, business can take shared responsibility for achieving a better world.” (Williams, O. 2014) Most non-profit associations, like UNICEF, have the ethical and moral responsibility to strive for sustainable developmental practices and leadership, however; incorporating these into other businesses is an ongoing struggle. The United Nations was put into place to provide, “certain norms or moral values, some codified in law, but many that are not, and now that we have moved to a global economy, we must find a way to embed moral norms in the globalized situation.” (Williams, O. 2014) Morals and ethics should be of importance
In resolving the ethical issues associated with business conduct the “seeing-knowing-doing” model is very useful. In this case analysis, we scan all the Trans-American Paper Company’s (TAPC) proposed/potential business options for the ethical issues. First, we will identify the ethical issues involved and its ethical/business/legal implications. Second, we will see how we can resolve these ethical issues and come up with best/second-best options. Finally, we develop an implementation strategy by leveraging ethical theories that identify (step one), resolve (step two) the ethical issues and implement (step three) our decision.
Today’s business world presents numerous ethical issues. In today’s world above board/moral ethics in organizations do not often materialize intuitively. Organization must strive to provide employees with a clear understanding of the overall company vision. This will aid employees in practicing the code of ethics, policies and procedures in the workplace. Companies must be unwavering in continuously delivering the uppermost ethics of provision in which customers, applicants and employees are entitled to under fair business practices. One major core value is to uphold responsible and fair business practices.
Present generations are reaping what their forefathers had sowed for them; future generations will reap what present generations have been sowing whether they like it or not. Past, present and future generations are dependent on each other’s choices. Technologies are zooming rapidly. Humanities prefer to overwork natural resources and often fell into technologies’ competitive temptations. Generations are getting smarter and innovative each day. New products are constantly changing to catch customers’ attention, while current products are still young and are not even ready to mature yet. While many are embracing technologies, few are concerned with the scars that have been embedded on natural resources. It is so easy to fall into the
The purpose or aim of every organization is to establish such an organizational culture and behavior among its employees that helps in achievement of ideal ethical standards. There are certain determinants that play a critical role in helping achieve the right organizational culture. Some of these include personal moral intensity, social ties, codes of ethics, locus of control and Machiavellianism. These
Justice on global climate change is nearly impossible. The most impoverished states, contributing relatively little to the problem of climate change, are facing the most dire consequences of environmental change. Historically, developed countries have contributed 60-80% towards global temperature increases, ocean warming, and sea-ice melting. This trend continues to hold today as the United States, Europe, and China make up for nearly 60% of the worlds fossil fuel emissions. Future issues due to climate change will be felt by all but will inflict the most damage on poverty-stricken regions of Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. Between these regions, there will be approximately 143 million internal climate migrants because of
The hypothesis for this paper is that prAna is a very ethical company. They have a commitment to their employees, their customers, and to the environment. PrAna was founded in 1992 by Beaver and Pam Theodosakis. They started their clothing line in their garage (PrAna, 2014e). PrAna Living currently operates as a subsidiary of Columbia Sportswear Company, who has a commitment to high ethical standards in its employees, manufacturers, suppliers, and distributors (Columbia Sportswear Company, 2013). PrAna seeks out other businesses with similar goals and beliefs on how a responsible corporation should operate. They strive to foster change and conservation through conscious consumerism, thus reducing their environmental footprint. They look to
Global warming will take its toll of human life to the tune of hundreds of thousands every year. According to John Broome--the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Oxford--these unfortunate victims of society's next big challenge will die by three main causes: heat waves, expansion of tropical diseases to temperate latitudes, and increased flooding. And yet many of my fellow EEB (ecology and evolutionary biology) grad students felt that the direct loss of life was a pittance in comparison with the indirect effects of global warming, such as the loss of ecosystem services caused by the devastation of the natural world and the social turmoil associated with the inundation of the many