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UNIT 7
Unit 7 Internal Stakeholders: Encouraging Ethical Behavior
INTRODUCTION
In Unit 6, you studied ethical behavior as it applies to the values and culture of a company. This unit asks how leaders contribute to the ethical profile of an organization and how organizational structures can support or create vulnerabilities for operating in an ethically sound manner.
You will also examine where the gaps may be in creating an atmosphere that encourages self regulating ethical behavior. Once you find these gaps, your challenge is to examine strategies that can remedy and even create model practices for maintaining an ethical base of operating.
OBJECTIVES
To successfully complete this learning unit, you will be expected to:
1. Describe ways that corporate social responsibility policies can both complement and conflict with profit maximizing goals.
2. Select an ethical approach to an organizationwide dilemma, explaining why it will lead to a suitable resolution.
3. Invent a corporate policy that can help resolve an ethical issue. 4. Assess the impact of a corporate social responsibility policy upon employees, stakeholders, clients, and other outside parties.
5. Explain how and in what situations government regulations help maintain an ethical environment.
[u07s1] Unit 7 Study 1
Studies
Readings Use your Business Ethics ebook to read Chapter 7, "Employee Stakeholders and the Corporation," pages 424–497. Examine topics such as sexual discrimination, the employer and employee contract, equal employment opportunity, and affirmative action.
Optional – Readings You may want to review Case 3, "Ford's Pinto Fires: The Retrospective View of Ford's Field Recall Coordinator," on pages 91–96 of your Business Ethics ebook, in preparation for this unit's second discussion.
[u07a1] Unit 7 Assignment 1
Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Policy This is the second component of your course project. In this assignment, you will return to the companywide
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dilemma that you wrote about in the Unit 2 assignment. Please note that you will incorporate this paper into your final project, due in Unit 10.
For this assignment, consider how a company's social responsibility can affect the workplace, stakeholders, clients, and other outside parties.
In your paper, complete the following:
Explain in general terms how a company's social responsibility policy can complement its obligation to maximize profits for shareholders. Where might these goals conflict? Explain how you think the ethical issue itself might be affecting employees, considering the specific company dilemma you discussed in the Unit 2 assignment. How about shareholders? Clients? Outside parties? State the approaches to ethical decision making (as discussed in Chapter 2 of your text) you would recommend for creating a policy to solve the issue. Explain. Write an overview of a company policy that could be created, based on this decisionmaking approach, to address the ethical dilemma. Explain the effects your policy might have on employees, if the company actually used the policy you just described. What would be the effects on shareholders? On clients? On other outside parties? Please consider both the potential positive and negative outcomes.
Review the Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Policy Scoring Guide to understand the grading criteria for this assignment.
Submission Requirements Your paper should meet the following requirements:
Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message. APA formatting: References and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting guidelines. Length of paper: 750–1,500 words, or 3–6 typed, doublespaced pages. Font and Font Size: Arial, 10 point.
Once complete, submit your paper in the assignment area.
[u07d1] Unit 7 Discussion 1
Ethics of Workplace Privacy Your text discusses the issue of workplace privacy. Currently, this is a very hot topic and it continues to be a contentious issue because technology is outpacing the law. New technologies for communication and new technologies for surveillance go beyond what the law has previously addressed.
Scoring Guide.
APA Style and Format.
Capella Online Writing Center.
Smarthinking.
Resources Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.
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In your post:
Explain what right to privacy you believe an employee should enjoy at work. Describe what right to surveillance a company should have in watching over its employees it is paying and the property it owns. If you are not in management or do not own a company, consider what rights you would want for surveillance with regard to a nanny you hired to watch your child in your home. Explain where you would draw the line with regard to workplace privacy, considering that the hardest ethical dilemmas to decide are ones that involve competing rights.
Refer to the Discussion Participation Scoring Guide for posting expectations.
Response Guidelines Respond to the post of at least one other learner. In your response, respond to the learner's point of view as it relates to surveillance in the workplace. Explain how your point of view is similar to and different from that of your peer.
[u07d2] Unit 7 Discussion 2
Whistleblowing Your text discusses whistleblowing by offering examples from people who paid with their lives to those who were rewarded handsomely for whistleblowing.
For this discussion, choose one of the following three scenarios:
A reallife example of whistleblowing with which you are personally familiar. A case of whistleblowing you know about from a text or other source. A hypothetical example of something to which we can all relate. For example, catching another learner cheating.
In your post:
Explain whether you did, or would, feel pressure not to report what you know. Explain why this is so. Explain what you did, what was done, or what you would do ultimately in the scenario you chose. Describe whether codes of ethics, such as those in schools or the military that require reporting of unethical behavior, would influence your decision.
In preparation for this discussion, you may want to review Case 3 on pages 91–96 of your text, concerning the Ford Pinto.
Refer to the Discussion Participation Scoring Guide for posting expectations.
Response Guidelines Respond to the post of at least one other learner. In your response, consider how your point of view on whistleblowing differs from that of your peer. Identify the points in which you both agree and disagree. Explain your agreements and disagreements.
Resources Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.
Business Ethics.
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