Ethical Misconduct

During the announcement of the seventh annual list of most ethical companies in the world in 2013, Alex Brigham of Ethisphere, noted that more companies find that ethical business practices increase their competitiveness in their respective industries, helping to further substantiate the notion that a culture of ethic is crucial to sustainable excellence (Smith, 2013). Researchers in the field of Organizational Behavior has found that employees are subjected to an environment of ethical dilemma constantly. During such moments employees have a choice either to pursue with ethical conduct or engage in an unethical behavior which results in harming the organization or its stakeholder (Trevino & Brown, 2004). How the employee behave greatly depends

The survey was performed in 2010 involving members of the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association (ECOA). They focused on the evolution of business ethics by analyzing six other studies over a span of two-and-a-half decades. Members of the survey were ethics manager, but members on the previous studies were regular employees and management. The results of the analysis of the previous studies showed that ethics programs in companies during a time span of the 1980’s through the 1990’s was used to show social responsibilities and not necessarily to enforce it throughout the company. It showed that ethics programs now that companies follow ethical laws and they are motivated to be ethical. Another result of the study showed that ethics training at companies has increased since the 1990’s due to the passing of Sarbanes-Oxley and other laws directed at ethics. The passing of the laws in the early 2000’s has led to ethics being a major component of everyday

1. Bauman, David C., Leadership and the three faces of integrity, The Leadership Quarterly, Volume 24, Issue 3, June 2013, Pages 414-426, ISSN 1048-9843, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2013.01.005.

The use of government communication systems to send political charged emails and to make intimidations is illegal and could cost service member’s careers. Senior Enlisted Leaders must be familiarized with partisan political activity rules and regulations in order to identify unethical behaviors and prevent political activity violations. This paper covers the background on a political activity violation and the impact from the member’s actions.

As there is a lot of cases, prosecutor has to conduct, there ought to be some misconduct in some progress. “A Tacoma man convicted of child rape and molestation two years ago did not receive a fair trial because a Pierce County deputy prosecutor committed misconduct during closing arguments, the Washington Court of Appeals has ruled.” Freeing a guilty man because of misconducting is pretty guilty itself, on top of that, the person who misconduct during closing arguments was deputy prosecutor. “The latest reversal came Tuesday, when a three-judge panel from Division II decided Alfred James Thierry Jr. was denied a fair trial because of deputy prosecutor Kara Sanchez improperly inflamed the jury during her closing argument.” “Thierry is entitled to a new trial, the panel said.” Child rape cases is one of the most popular in U.S., or even around the world.

Businesses use workplace ethics to manage the behavior of the employees. Workplace ethics control management’s moral decisions and keep companies out of any type legal trouble. Some businesses break down their ethics in an official company code of ethics. Employees of companies that have no official code should rely on their personal ethics that they were taught and have learned. Ethics is defined as a moral philosophy or code of morals practiced by a person or group of people. In the workplace, ethics keeps the employers and the employees from doing the wrong thing. So when an employer or employee demonstrates unethical behavior what is the outcome? In December 2015, Fortune listed “The 5 Biggest Corporate Scandals of 2015”. Some

While working at the British Bank, I saw the importance of being honest. My values as an authentic leader are shaped by the beliefs I have, which have been developed through introspection, study, and different consultations made with friends, throughout my experience. The values have been defining my moral compass. Therefore, I am able to differentiate between what is right and wrong with ease. It is imperative to note that integrity is not only living without lying, but also telling the truth, irrespective of the pain it may cause to the leader. If leaders fail to exercise full integrity in their interactions, those under them will lose the trust they have in them. In cases where the employees cannot trust their leaders, then it is undeniably true that they cannot follow

In the workplace as well as one’s personal life is essential for ethics to be maintained; often taking the right action is not always the most popular choice. It is important for maintaining an upstanding ethical code of conduct to be a productive individual as well as function as an employee in the workplace.

The implementation of a new ethics program would involve a great deal of communication (Ruddell, 2004). Assessing the common ethical concerns within an organization helps to create a more tailored plan for the organization (Belhaven, 2015). Initially sharing the code of conduct, training employees on the steps to resolve ethical problems, and providing guidelines to report concerns could be communicated multiple ways (Belhaven 2015). Another task is to identify a group to investigate

Many different sources of ethical violations that involve the use of animals in research can be found. A few that caught my eyes were a pig being exposed to high radiation dosages, dogs being forced to ingest test substances, and a monkey used in Emory University’s study with malaria (HUM, 2013). The pigs and dogs were exposed to nearly lethal dosages of radiation or the test substance in the laboratory. More shockingly, a four-year-old monkey was infected with malaria for research. It continued to suffer for a total of fourteen days. All animals in the three cases that I chose should not have had to suffer these circumstances. The pig and one of the dogs in research eventually died without being properly treated. The remaining dogs and monkey were euthanized. Furthermore, based on the monkey’s symptoms during the period of fourteen days, it “should not have progressed to such an extensive state of suffering before euthanasia was employed” (HUM, 2013). Consequently, the animals used in these sources of research died or were euthanized. The outcome of these violations was not positive. Some did not even produce desired results and left data that is not usable.

This presentation is on the organization integrity and social responsibilities. As the leaders of the company, if we “act unethically and/or without integrity” (Ross, 2009, para 1), our employees will lose confidence and trust in our organization, however, if our employees do the same than our customers will “lose confidence and trust in our products and services” (Ross, 2009, para 1). For example, Intel had issues with its Pentium chip. They used unethical practices, which consisted of a five-point plan. This presentation will discuss the following:

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.

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Every organization also has a profession responsibility to conduct business honestly and ethically. Our readings reported, “Experts estimated that U.S. companies lose about $600 billion a year from unethical and criminal behavior” Kinicki and Kreitner (2009). The organization could avoid having ethical issues by meeting the

In their personal and professional lives, people can and, unfortunately, sometimes do go against their moral and ethical standards. Ethical standards are what it means to be a good person, the social rules that govern our behavior. Ethics in business is essentially the study of what constitutes the right and wrong or the good or bad behavior in the workplace environment. A business is an organization whose objective is to provide goods or services for profit. The organization has a group of people that work together to achieve a common purpose. The moral challenges that these men and women face each day along with a whole range of problems that could occur, are why ethics plays such an important