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BUSINESS ETHICS: Concepts and Cases Miguel G. VelasquezChapter 88.4 - 8.7
MGMT3035 ETHICS IN BUSINESS
8.4The Political Organization
Question
According to the political model of the business organization:
(a) individuals must have the same civil rights as they do in governmental organizations
(b) individuals have an absolute right to privacy(c) the power of corporate managers is limited to a certain extent by the countervailing power of unions(d) all of the above
8.5Employee Rights
Right to Privacy
Defined:
The right which people have to determine what, to whom, and how much information about themselves shall be disclosed to others.
Right to privacy
Right to privacy
Right to privacy contd…
Employee Right to Privacy
Is justified because of its protective and enabling functions
Requires considering relevance, consent, and methods when collecting information
Question
Which of the following is true?
(a) Employers who maintain inaccurate files on their employees are invading the employees right to privacy.(b) Employers who maintain incomplete or
inaccurate files are not invading the employees’ right to privacy.(c) Employers who maintain incomplete files on their employees are invading the employees right to privacy.(d) Employees with inaccurate information in their files have nothing to complain about.
Question
Since an employee freely chooses to work for a company, why is it considered an invasion of privacy when an employer implements electronic performance monitoring?
Freedom of Conscience
Freedom of Conscience
Defined:
The choice of an individual within an organization to inform of the harmful operations the organization may be causing to society.
Freedom of conscience
Freedom of conscience contd…
Is justified by the importance of religious and moral convictions
Implies whistle blowing is morally justified if:
1. the wrong is clear, 2. other methods have failed, 3. it will prevent the wrong, and 4. that the wrong is serious
Whistle blowing
Whistle blowing
Defined:
An attempt by a member or former member of an organization to disclose wrongdoing in or by the organization
Question
External whistle blowing:
(a) is always wrong, because employees have a contractual duty to be loyal to their employer(b) is sometimes moral, because employees have a moral obligation to prevent others from being harmed which overrides other duties(c) is always moral, because employees have duties to others which always overrides the duties of the firm(d) is always wrong, because it will have harmful effects on the whistleblower
Whistle blowing
Question
Under what conditions would you blow the whistle on wrongdoing in a corporation for which you worked? How bad would the offense have to be? Would you do it under any conditions, considering how extensive the effects of whistle blowing are on the individual involved?
Right to participatory management
Right to participatory management
Participatory Management
Defined:
A management style that emphasizes the inclusion of employees in evaluation and decision-making processes
Is based on the right to liberty Can mean open discussion, consultation,
or participation in policy decisions Requires the kind of participative
leadership of McGregor, Miles, and Likert
The right to participate
Right to due process
Defined
The right to a fair process by which decision makers impose sanctions on their subordinates.
Right to Due Process
The databank is slightly mistaken.
I’m not an alcoholic. I never attempted to assassinate the governor. I haven’t been married seventeen times.
I don’t owe $66,000 in gambling debts.
Defined:
The right to a fair process by which decision makers impose sanctions on their subordinates.
Right to due process
Right to due process
Is justified because without it all other rights are at risk
Requires a fair, multistep grievance procedure
Right to Unionize
Right to Unionize
The right of employees to freely associate with each other to establish and run unions for the achievement of their morally legitimate common goals.
Right to Unionize
8.6
Organizational Politics
Organizational Politics
The process in which individuals or groups within an organization use non-formally sanctioned power tactics to advance their own aims.
Organizational Politics
Organizational Politics
Organizational Political Tactics
Blaming or attacking othersControlling informationDeveloping a base for one’s ideas Image building IngratiationAssociation with the influentialForming power coalitionsEstablish favorable relationships
Organizational Political Tactics
We need to ask Are the use of the tactics socially
beneficial or harmful? Are they in treating others in a manner
consistent with their moral rights? Will they lead to an equitable
distribution of benefits and burdens? How will these tactics affect the web of
relationships within the organization.
Prolonged prevalence of these tactics have long-term debilitating effects on the quality of relationships in an organization
Effects of Political Tactics
Question
Which of the following political tactics is clearly unethical?(a) Tactics that involve the pursuit of personal goals.(b) Tactics that involve inefficiency and waste.(c) Tactics that are manipulative.(d) none of the above
The Caring Organization
An organization in which the dominant moral concepts are those that arise from an ethic of care.
Caring model of the organization
Focused on the “person” not on “profit” or “quality”
It is Personal; it involves particular individuals engrossed at a subjective level, in caring for other particular individuals
It is growth –enhancing for the cared -for .It moves the organization toward the development of their full capacities. Within the defines of there needs.
Characteristics
Example
Question
An organization based on caring relationships:(a) undertakes caring as an end in itself(b) undertakes caring in order to achieve greater profits(c) helps to develop itself and allows it to grow to its full capacities.(d) will always outperform other types of organizations.
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