Ethics During Change Trisha Goodhue June 26, 2013 Jennifer Post University of Phoenix
Introduction Organizational change is when companies are undergoing or have undergone a transformation to some degree. While implementing change into a business environment, many issues arise that test ethics and morals alike. In today’s world, organizations must introduce change in their business in order to advance and compete with the fast moving business world around that surrounds us. Companies must carefully introduce changes while at the same time considering the ethic implications of the changes introduced (Ramanathan, 2008). The list of changes that can be made within a company is endless and continually being added to. Individual organizations have to decide if the risk of spending money on training will surpass the profit of the new product. The organization may face resistance from employees that are stuck in their ways and do not believe the new product will be successful. If the new product does not do well on the market, shareholders are likely to withdraw their shareholding from these companies causing a possible collapse of the company (Sonenshein, 2009). Outsourcing business services to an external provider also poses ethical issues because employees may see this as the company being incompetent and unable to handle the task on their own (Bashir & Afzal, 2007). The biggest ethical implication from outsourcing is that employees within the organization who feel competent to perform the outsourced service will feel neglected and overlooked. Another fear is that shareholders may feel that some business services that have been outsourced can be performed by the same organization outsourcing the services. This may cause them to see it as funds that may as well be profits being transferred to other organizations. If a company begins to outsource services to other countries, there will be social implications such as unemployment as well as a reduction in economic output. In order to keep the moral up within organizations during and after times of change, Companies will try to introduce reward schemes or performance evaluation schemes. This is done as a
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Sarah Hinson Reflection Paper #5 5/1/15 When discussing the bases of religion, one will run into a few problems: Theodicies and Ethics. Both these terms are used in the same sense of when defending a cause or issue. Ethics can be defined as the moral basis of discerning right from wrong and can be shaped by internal and/or external forces. On the other hand, Theodicy is defined as the explanation of the ways that God reacts when faced with evil disorder and discrimination. In the religious autobiographies…
what characterizes a market society and this also show how the market society differs from the structures of the previous social organization, and also the changes that take place in the workplace due to the shift to market society. Secondly, this paper will also be discussing the ideological conditions by looking at the early “protestant work ethic” and the “spirit of capitalism” and how those two is important to the emergence of the market society. Lastly, this paper…
Therefore, personal ethics are different for each one of us. However, when we work in a professional career, we have our own work character to reflect on. What is professional ethics? “Professional ethics concerns the moral issues that arise because of the specialist knowledge that professionals attain, and how the use of this knowledge should be governed when providing a service to the public” (Chadwick 1998). Today, Librarianship is a profession that has a code of professional ethics to help us to…
Ethics and Social Responsibility Quality Management Corporate executives are faced with the challenge of balancing the stakeholder profits with a strong ethical code, but focusing too much on one area will cause the other one to suffer. Technology has made it easier for information about companies to flow freely and ethical failures are quick to be identified by the public. Failure to operate an ethical business could lead to brand failure through negative public exposure. The Strategic…
for the company to stop advertising to kids, but must change the way to advertising to children with positive impacts. What's more, it can also consult from parents, and make efforts about the problem together. Uncertainty touches most aspects of life, especially when we make decisions that have consequences that we cannot predict. It is natural that we can weigh up the possible results and their risks and benefits. Hence we should change the uncertainty into certainty though further research…
Assignment 1: Employment-At-Will Doctrine Ian Keller Strayer University Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance LEG 500 Professor Joyce Weddle April 21st, 2013 Introduction Jennifer is a recent college graduate who has been hired by an accounting firm. In the short time she has been employed with the firm she has discovered a number of behaviors she feels could be inappropriate regarding the employment-at-will doctrine as well as some liabilities with the employer. She has brought this up only…
paper. This article, “the situational ethics of statecraft,” portrays the writiers, Roberrt H jackson’s rational approach towards the subject of ethics and international relationships between countries. The title itself portrays a bit about the article, which is about the various challenges the leaders of countries have to face while making a decision during a particular situation. Jackson is sure to note that, “circumstances are not fixed, but shift and change so that at one time or place an opportunity…
The Kaplan eGuide to Ethics and the Legal Environment Chapter 2 This mandatory weekly reading assignment is designed to supplement your online coursework and help you to understand the basic concepts behind ethics and philosophical arguments. In This Chapter Case Study: The Case of the Forgotten Stakeholders p. 2 This case study explores the need for an organization to clearly identify all of its stakeholders and the impact of its decisions on them. Corporate Social Responsibility p…
as religion was concerned. Give an example of a Deist in either Europe or America? During the Age of the Enlightenment there were many profound and philosophical thinkers, of these “thinkers” many were Deist. People like Isaac Newton, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Francois Voltaire, and Francis Bacon were all significant Deists. Deists fall under the category of Deism. Deism was a term chiefly used during the intellectual movement of The Enlightenment that accepted the existence of a creator…
