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Exploring Organizational Culture and Ethics: A Practical Approach

Dive into the intricacies of organizational culture and ethical behavior with real-world examples and discussions. Evaluate key concepts and their relevance in organizational dynamics. Delve into ethical dilemmas and ethical thinking frameworks.

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Exploring Organizational Culture and Ethics: A Practical Approach

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  1. Agenda • Questions re work plan • Quiz, the first • Group work: chapter 2 • Presentations on chapter 2 • Group process discussion • Ethics in the work place

  2. Chapter 2Cultivating culture and ethical behavior

  3. Group Assignment • For each concept • Define the concept in everyday terms • Give an example from OSU or the workplace • Evaluate usefulness of concept to choosing and getting along in an organization

  4. All groups • Does OSU have a unique culture? • If so, what is it? • What might it have in common with other academic settings?

  5. Important concepts • Layers of organizational culture • Functions of culture • Embedding culture • Socialization process • Subcultures/countercultures • Mentoring • Ethics: major ethical issues at OSU; how do students learn ethical standards?

  6. Ethics & social responsibility • Ethical behavior: that which is accepted as morally good and right as opposed to bad and wrong • Social responsibility: “the obligations of organizations to behave in ethical and moral ways as institutions of the broader society” (Schermerhorn et. al, p. 14.

  7. Ways of thinking about ethics • Utilitarian • Delivers the greatest good to greatest number of people; consider the results and consequences • Individualism • Best for an individual’s long-term self-interest • Moral-rights view • Respects fundamental rights shared by all human beings (life, liberty, fair treatment by law)

  8. Ways of thinking • Common-good • One’s own good inextricably linked to good of community • Justice/fairness • Fair and impartial • Procedural: rules and processes properly followed • Distributive: all treated the same, regardless of trait • Virtue • Ideals to which we should all aspire: honesty, compassion, generosity……..

  9. Ethical dilemmas • Is it ethical to: • Quit without giving adequate notice? • Monitor employees e-mail - without telling them? • Withhold information that might discourage someone from taking a job with your organization? • Offer financial incentives for good health habits? • Pay women less than men since they don’t ask for higher wages when hired? • Ask so much of someone that they have to choose between a job and a life?

  10. Five questions…. • What benefits and harms will each course of action produce: which will lead to best overall consequences? • What moral right do affected parties have; which course of action respects those rights? • Which course of action treats everyone same--except where there is a moral justification not to--and does not show favoritism or discrimination? • Which course of action advances the common good? • Which action develops moral virtues?

  11. Interesting websites • www.ethics.org • www.scu.edu/SCU/Ethics/practicing/decision/thinking.html

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