Effective ethics and ethical behavior Memorandum and Report Carol Harris TO: Rebecca M. Melton‚ ABC Toy Co. CEO FROM: Carol Harris‚ Elementary Division Manager‚ ABC Toy Co. DATE: 6/5/11 SUBJECT: Product quality issue and a report on ethical decision making. This memo addresses a product quality issue with a whistle included in our toy collection. I have included a report on the importance of ethical decision making
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greed. People have to be held accountable; they are responsible for upholding ethical business practices. The old adage “Ignorance is no excuse” applies in business as well as personal lives. Corporate Leaders and CEO’s have to be held to a higher standard. Ethical behavior means to act in a way that is good and mutually beneficial for the individual and society (Mautner‚ 2005). This statement makes me wonder who decides what is good and mutually beneficial for society and the individual in business
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Values and Ethical Communication Behaviors Values The subjective assessments made about the relative worth of a quality or object. Therefore‚ values become part of complex attitudes sets that influence our behavior and the behavior of all those with whom we interact. Organizational Value Systems Values are part of the shared realities generated through organizational communication. These shared values are reflected in organizational myths‚ stories‚ mission statements‚ physical surroundings
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Discipline is the hallmark of progress. But I‚ sometimes‚ wonder why? Then I recall the words of old - "Discipline your children while they are young enough to learn. If you don’t‚ you are helping them to ruin themselves." So what is so majestic about discipline that following it would prevent the ruin of my life? Have you ever paused to observe that the word discipline almost completely has the word ’disciple’ within it? Discipline‚ in its original sense‚ probably meant nothing but focused training
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Procedures to Ensure Ethical Behavior The Walt Disney Company has several procedures in place to ensure ethical behavior. The first procedure in place is effective internal controls over financial reporting. The Walt Disney Company used the independent registered public accounting firm of PriceWaterHouseCoopers LLP for the auditing of its financial statements and internal controls for the year ending 2009 and 2010. This independent auditor found the financial statements to be presented fairly and
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3 2. AUTHENTIC DIALOGUE AND ETHICAL BEHAVIOUR . . . . 3 3. THE STRUCTURE OF AUTHENTIC DIALOGUE AND ETHICAL BEHAVIOUR IN SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOLS . . . 5 4. CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 5. REFERENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1. INTRODUCTION People all had superficial conversations about the weather or the canapés at a party‚ but what is the difference between a dialogue
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Administrative Staff Motivation The motivators in an organization are typically higher level professional employees and are most often employees that work in the administration department. Although administrative employees are required to be the motivators‚ they also need to be motivated. In fact‚ every individual has needs that motivate him or her through life. Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory relates to human needs that must be satisfied to achieve motivation. This theory also challenges
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Popular Ethical Theories Relativism as defined by Merriam-Webster (2013)‚ is a theory that knowledge is relative to the limited nature of the mind and the condition of knowing. Philosophically‚ relativism references that all points of view are equally credible‚ and that all truth is related to the individual (Westacott‚ 2005). Relativism can more specifically be defined as “the nature and existence of items of knowledge‚ qualities‚ values or logical entities non-trivially obtain their natures
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What skills do your staff need? (+ Pre-training : know the needs of staff ) * It is essential that any training plan should be linked into the business’s long- term objectives. The training needs of your organisation and staff should be thoroughly assessed to determine what skills would be required to achieve your strategic goals. * Questions that should be raised include: * Do staff need to be more flexible in order to cover a greater range of jobs? * Do they need to know
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Behavior based safety process What is behavior safety? Everybody who works to reduce accidents and improve safe performance is concerned with human behavior. “Behavior and accidents is what it’s all about‚” is a commonly heard phrase. While behavioral safety shares a concern with human behavior and safe performance in the workplace with other approaches‚ it is more than that. behavioral safety is the application of behavioral research on human performance to the problems of safety in
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