Case Study0517
Case Study: NCAA Ethics and Compliance Program
Regina Fernanders
Professor: James G. Ziegler
HRM 522 Ethics and Advocacy for HR
May 17, 2015
Case Study: NCAA Ethics and Compliance Program
Determine the fundamental ways in which the NCAA’s ethics program failed to prevent the scandals at Penn State, Ohio State, and University of Arkansas. Support your response with one example from each of these schools scandals.
As far as the Penn State scandal, the NCAA agreed the misconduct was somewhat the fault of the football program’s and Penn State’s complacency. The ethics program implemented by the NCAA failed to stop the unethical behavior because they are all about compliance of rules and regulations, they should have programs that hold coaches and upper management responsible by holding internal audits with the athletes and possibly semiannual counseling sessions to make sure the players are deemed psychologically healthy.
In the case of the Ohio State scandal where the athlete’s traded sports gear for tattoos and money the NCAA fined them and fired their head coach for being aware of what was going on and not reporting it. The NCAA ethics program failed to prevent this scandal because the players did not take money instead they traded gear for tattoos. The NCAA should of made more clarification about what is acceptable and not acceptable behavior by being more specific.
In the case of the University of Arkansas head Coach Bobby Petrino was an unethical coach from trying to get his former boss fired to hassling players, to leaving his job at the Atlanta Falcons in a way that was unethical and short notice. Petrino was involved in a motorcycle accident which he tried to cover up due to the fact that he was with his 25 year old mistress. This is unethical because one he was married with children and secondly he hired this woman as an athletic coordinator which is considered a conflict of interest. The Athletic Director of the University of Arkansas
Regina Fernanders
Professor: James G. Ziegler
HRM 522 Ethics and Advocacy for HR
May 17, 2015
Case Study: NCAA Ethics and Compliance Program
Determine the fundamental ways in which the NCAA’s ethics program failed to prevent the scandals at Penn State, Ohio State, and University of Arkansas. Support your response with one example from each of these schools scandals.
As far as the Penn State scandal, the NCAA agreed the misconduct was somewhat the fault of the football program’s and Penn State’s complacency. The ethics program implemented by the NCAA failed to stop the unethical behavior because they are all about compliance of rules and regulations, they should have programs that hold coaches and upper management responsible by holding internal audits with the athletes and possibly semiannual counseling sessions to make sure the players are deemed psychologically healthy.
In the case of the Ohio State scandal where the athlete’s traded sports gear for tattoos and money the NCAA fined them and fired their head coach for being aware of what was going on and not reporting it. The NCAA ethics program failed to prevent this scandal because the players did not take money instead they traded gear for tattoos. The NCAA should of made more clarification about what is acceptable and not acceptable behavior by being more specific.
In the case of the University of Arkansas head Coach Bobby Petrino was an unethical coach from trying to get his former boss fired to hassling players, to leaving his job at the Atlanta Falcons in a way that was unethical and short notice. Petrino was involved in a motorcycle accident which he tried to cover up due to the fact that he was with his 25 year old mistress. This is unethical because one he was married with children and secondly he hired this woman as an athletic coordinator which is considered a conflict of interest. The Athletic Director of the University of Arkansas