Salary Cap Breach Case Study
The Melbourne Storm
A scandal that was inevitable
Topic: An analysis of the ethics of the Melbourne Storm NRL Club’s salary cap breaches
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The purpose of this essay is to analyse the ethics of the Melbourne Storm NRL Club’s salary breach with reference to the management literature on business ethics. This essay will look at three separate articles discussing business ethics and then link the information found on ethical decision making towards the Melbourne Storm salary breach scandal. The first article will discuss networking and its link to business, with reference to the three types of networking and specific unethical behaviour in networking. The second article will look at the theory of planned behaviour and discuss what widespread unethical behaviour is and how closeness centrality can lead to it. The final article argues that culture plays a predominant role in ethical decision making and links individualism and collectivism to the case. After analysing all three articles and then comparing what was learned about ethics …show more content…
It is noted that in individualist cultures, people believe there is greater importance on achieving tasks whilst collectivist cultures tend to find more achievement in building good relationships with others (Husted & Allen, 2008).
As well as societal culture being a situational variable in ethical decision making, both individualists and collectivists use a reasoning-behaviour relationship that is balanced by situational and individual factors. Husted & Allen (2008) state that individualist cultures use justice-based post-conventional moral reasoning, with a focus on rules and standards, to make ethical decisions whilst collectivists use relationship-based post-conventional moral reasoning, with a focus on relationships and the good of the community.
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A scandal that was inevitable
Topic: An analysis of the ethics of the Melbourne Storm NRL Club’s salary cap breaches
Section 1
The purpose of this essay is to analyse the ethics of the Melbourne Storm NRL Club’s salary breach with reference to the management literature on business ethics. This essay will look at three separate articles discussing business ethics and then link the information found on ethical decision making towards the Melbourne Storm salary breach scandal. The first article will discuss networking and its link to business, with reference to the three types of networking and specific unethical behaviour in networking. The second article will look at the theory of planned behaviour and discuss what widespread unethical behaviour is and how closeness centrality can lead to it. The final article argues that culture plays a predominant role in ethical decision making and links individualism and collectivism to the case. After analysing all three articles and then comparing what was learned about ethics …show more content…
It is noted that in individualist cultures, people believe there is greater importance on achieving tasks whilst collectivist cultures tend to find more achievement in building good relationships with others (Husted & Allen, 2008).
As well as societal culture being a situational variable in ethical decision making, both individualists and collectivists use a reasoning-behaviour relationship that is balanced by situational and individual factors. Husted & Allen (2008) state that individualist cultures use justice-based post-conventional moral reasoning, with a focus on rules and standards, to make ethical decisions whilst collectivists use relationship-based post-conventional moral reasoning, with a focus on relationships and the good of the community.
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