This module considers what an "ethical approach" to organisations might look like, the business advantages of such an approach, and the relationships between organisational strategy and the ethical dimension.

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Business and Management Competencies in a Web 2.0 world
Session November 2011 - May 2012 February 2012
Student: Bonnemains Marc
Assignment: Module 6: The ethical organisation
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Web 2.0, Entreprise 2.0, Collaboration, Collaborative, Transparency, Learning, Research,
Social Networking, Publishing, Information, United Nations, Ethics, Project, Management,
Business, Dilemma, Sustainability, PR, PR Education, Public Relations, Public Relations
Ethics, Stakeholder, Stakeholder Engagement, CRS, Corporate Social Responsibility
Assigment
For my assignment I choose the following text:
Furutan, Omid. Corruption in Slovakia - ethical issues from a
systematic point of view in Journal of Academic and Business Ethics,
2011, Vol 3, January 2011, Florida, FD: Academic and Business Research
Institute, 2011. p 10 [Cited 20120229]. Pdf. Available from: <
http://www.aabri.com/manuscripts/10533.pdf>
The text speaks about the corruption in Slovakia. Corruption is
present at all level and it is threats for stability and development of the
civil society. Even if European Union and Western countries are not escape
of it, the most problematic situation it is in Eastern Europe. Before the
millennium, the Slovak government decided to put the fight against
corruption on its agenda with high priority, with public participation of the
Prime Minister, and creation of an Anticorruption Steering Committee for a
National Programme for the Fight against Corruption. But, study showed
“that from 1997 to 2005 the level of corruption in Slovakia has risen”.
Corruption remained in all sectors of the society as education, courts,
police and health care, sector the most in contact with Slovak society.
But one of the main problem, it is that in general and world will
definition of corruption does not existed apart the one defined by the
United Nations. In fact, it is easier to identify the problems that the
causes. The elimination of administrative barriers as subjectivism in
decision-making with a long term goal can be a help, instead an
authoritarian approach on a sort term goals. As the text concluded, “one
sign of the failure of this approach in Slovakia is the level of tolerance
Slovaks have for accepting corruption as part of life”.
The major issue here it is that it was done three main errors. The
European Union focus on the corruption problems as one of the main issue
in the enlargement process too late and some time after enlargement.
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People were acting with their ‘normal behaviour’ in eastern country of the
communism time represented by the system of corruption or ‘small
expression of gratitude’ for services or favours. After the fall of the iron
curtain and during the transition period from centralized economy to
market economy instead to define common goals, people focalize more on
surviving privileging personal interest and enrichment on short term
goals.
It could be done differently. In fact, one responsibility it is Europe.
European representative did not take enough care about the problem even
if some many signs were sent during years. The other responsibility lies to
the civil society that did not manage to develop clear rules and
transparent administrative processes monitored by the civil society thru
non-profit organization represented by citizen. The other one is the lack of
example from political representative and ‘top management’ actors.
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