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Chapter 3
Ethical Behavior and
Social Responsibility
Chapter 3 Learning Dashboard
1. What is ethical behavior?
1. Laws and values as determinants of ethical behavior
2. Alternative views of ethics
3. Cultural issues in ethical behavior
2. Ethics in the workplace
1. Ethical dilemmas at work
2. Influences on ethical decision making
3. Rationalizations for unethical behavior
Chapter 3 Learning Dashboard
3. Maintaining High Ethical Standards
1. Ethics training
2. Codes of ethical conduct
3. Moral management
4. Whistleblower protection
3. Social Responsibility
1. Stakeholder management
2. Perspectives on corporate social responsibility
3. Evaluating corporate social performance
4. Corporate governance
What Is Ethical Behavior?
• Ethics
– Moral code of principles.
– Set standards of “good” or “bad” or “right” or
“wrong” in one’s conduct.
• Ethical behavior
– What is accepted as good and right in the context
of the governing moral code.
What Is Ethical Behavior?
• Law, values, and ethical behavior:
– Legal behavior is not necessarily ethical behavior.
– Personal values help determine individual ethical
behavior.
What Is Ethical Behavior?
• Law, values, and ethical behavior:
– Values - underlying beliefs and attitudes that
help determine individual behavior
• Terminal values - preferences about desired ends
• Instrumental values – preferences regarding the
means to desired ends
What Is Ethical Behavior?
• Four alternative ethical views (MUJI)
– Utilitarian
• Delivers the greatest good to the most people
– Individualism
• Advances long-term self-interests
– Moral rights
• Maintains fundamental rights of all human beings
What Is Ethical Behavior?
– Justice view of ethics
• Fair and impartial treatment of people according to
legal rules and standards (PDIC + PEPF)
– Procedural justice – policies and rules fairly applied
– Distributive justice – equal treatment for all people
– Interactional justice – people treated with dignity and
respect
– Commutative justice – fairness to all involved
Ethics in the Workplace
• An ethical dilemma
– occurs when choices, although having potential
for personal and/or organizational benefit, may
be considered unethical.
Ethics in the Workplace
• Ethical dilemmas include: (SCOPD)
Checklist for ethical dilemmas
(RGTDAT)
Ethics in the Workplace
• Influences on Ethical Decision Making
– Ethical framework
• Provides personal rules or strategies for ethical
decision making
• Includes personal values (FISH)
– Honesty
– Fairness
– Integrity
– Self-respect
Kohlberg’s stages of individual moral development
(AMAFLA)
Ethics in the Workplace
• Situational Context and Ethics Intensity
– Will the situation pose an important ethic
challenge?
• Magnitude of the situation
• Risk of immediate harm
• Proximity and concentration of harm
• Social consensus
Ethics in the Workplace
• Organizational Culture
– What is considered ethical behavior within the
organizational context?
• What are the expectations of management?
• What are the expectations of co-workers?
• Is there a code of ethics?
Ethics in the Workplace
• External environment
Ethics in the Workplace
• Ethical behavior can be rationalized by
convincing yourself that: (BBTN)
Maintaining High Ethical Standards
•Moral Management
Managers behave in one of three
ways
Maintaining High Ethical Standards
• Ethics training:
– Structured programs that help participants to
understand ethical aspects of decision making.
– Helps people incorporate high ethical standards
into daily life.
– Helps people deal with ethical issues under
pressure.
Maintaining High Ethical Standards
• Codes of Ethical Conduct
– Formal statement of an organization’s values and
ethical principles regarding how to behave in
situations susceptible to the creation of ethical
dilemmas
Maintaining High Ethical Standards
• Areas often covered by codes of ethics:
Maintaining High Ethical Standards
• Whistleblowers
– Expose misdeeds of others to:
• Preserve ethical standards
• Protect against wasteful, harmful, or illegal acts
– Laws protecting whistleblowers vary
• Barriers to whistleblowing include:
– Strict chain of command
– Strong work group identities
– Ambiguous priorities
Social Responsibility
• Sustainability:
– acting in ways that support a high quality of life
for present and future generations
• Alternative energy
• Recycling
• Waste avoidance
• Corporate social responsibility and
governance:
– Looks at ethical issues on the organization level.
– Obligates organizations to act in ways that serve both its
own interests and the interests of society at large.
Social Responsibility
• Stakeholder Management
– Stakeholders: persons, groups, and other organizations directly
affected by the behavior of the organization and holding a
stake in its performance.
– Stakeholder power: the capacity of the stakeholder to
positively or negatively affect the operations of the
organization.
– Demand legitimacy: the validity and legitimacy of a
stakeholder’s interest in the organization.
– Issue urgency: the extent to which a stakeholder’s concerns
need immediate attention.
The Many Stakeholders of Organizations
Social Responsibility
• Perspectives on social responsibility:
– Classical view
• Management’s only responsibility is to maximize
profits.
– Socioeconomic view
• Management must be concerned for the broader
social welfare, not just profits.
Social Responsibility
• Perspectives on social responsibility:
– Shared value view
• Approaches business decisions with the
understanding that economic and social progress are
interconnected
• Virtuous circle-socially responsible behavior improves
financial performance which leads to more
responsible behavior
Social Responsibility
Against:(RHDLT) Favor:(ABIA)
Four strategies of corporate social responsibility—
from obstructionist to proactive behavior.
Social Responsibility
• Corporate governance:
– The oversight of the top management of an organization
by a board of directors.
• Corporate governance involves:
– Hiring, firing, and compensating the CEO.
– Assessing strategy.
– Verifying financial records.
• How government influences organizations:
– Businesses required by law to have boards of directors
that are elected by stockholders
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Ebbpa3 b ch 3

  • 1. Chapter 3 Ethical Behavior and Social Responsibility
  • 2. Chapter 3 Learning Dashboard 1. What is ethical behavior? 1. Laws and values as determinants of ethical behavior 2. Alternative views of ethics 3. Cultural issues in ethical behavior 2. Ethics in the workplace 1. Ethical dilemmas at work 2. Influences on ethical decision making 3. Rationalizations for unethical behavior
  • 3. Chapter 3 Learning Dashboard 3. Maintaining High Ethical Standards 1. Ethics training 2. Codes of ethical conduct 3. Moral management 4. Whistleblower protection 3. Social Responsibility 1. Stakeholder management 2. Perspectives on corporate social responsibility 3. Evaluating corporate social performance 4. Corporate governance
  • 4. What Is Ethical Behavior? • Ethics – Moral code of principles. – Set standards of “good” or “bad” or “right” or “wrong” in one’s conduct. • Ethical behavior – What is accepted as good and right in the context of the governing moral code.
  • 5. What Is Ethical Behavior? • Law, values, and ethical behavior: – Legal behavior is not necessarily ethical behavior. – Personal values help determine individual ethical behavior.
  • 6. What Is Ethical Behavior? • Law, values, and ethical behavior: – Values - underlying beliefs and attitudes that help determine individual behavior • Terminal values - preferences about desired ends • Instrumental values – preferences regarding the means to desired ends
  • 7. What Is Ethical Behavior? • Four alternative ethical views (MUJI) – Utilitarian • Delivers the greatest good to the most people – Individualism • Advances long-term self-interests – Moral rights • Maintains fundamental rights of all human beings
  • 8. What Is Ethical Behavior? – Justice view of ethics • Fair and impartial treatment of people according to legal rules and standards (PDIC + PEPF) – Procedural justice – policies and rules fairly applied – Distributive justice – equal treatment for all people – Interactional justice – people treated with dignity and respect – Commutative justice – fairness to all involved
  • 9. Ethics in the Workplace • An ethical dilemma – occurs when choices, although having potential for personal and/or organizational benefit, may be considered unethical.
  • 10. Ethics in the Workplace • Ethical dilemmas include: (SCOPD)
  • 11. Checklist for ethical dilemmas (RGTDAT)
  • 12. Ethics in the Workplace • Influences on Ethical Decision Making – Ethical framework • Provides personal rules or strategies for ethical decision making • Includes personal values (FISH) – Honesty – Fairness – Integrity – Self-respect
  • 13. Kohlberg’s stages of individual moral development (AMAFLA)
  • 14. Ethics in the Workplace • Situational Context and Ethics Intensity – Will the situation pose an important ethic challenge? • Magnitude of the situation • Risk of immediate harm • Proximity and concentration of harm • Social consensus
  • 15. Ethics in the Workplace • Organizational Culture – What is considered ethical behavior within the organizational context? • What are the expectations of management? • What are the expectations of co-workers? • Is there a code of ethics?
  • 16. Ethics in the Workplace • External environment
  • 17. Ethics in the Workplace • Ethical behavior can be rationalized by convincing yourself that: (BBTN)
  • 18. Maintaining High Ethical Standards •Moral Management Managers behave in one of three ways
  • 19. Maintaining High Ethical Standards • Ethics training: – Structured programs that help participants to understand ethical aspects of decision making. – Helps people incorporate high ethical standards into daily life. – Helps people deal with ethical issues under pressure.
  • 20. Maintaining High Ethical Standards • Codes of Ethical Conduct – Formal statement of an organization’s values and ethical principles regarding how to behave in situations susceptible to the creation of ethical dilemmas
  • 21. Maintaining High Ethical Standards • Areas often covered by codes of ethics:
  • 22. Maintaining High Ethical Standards • Whistleblowers – Expose misdeeds of others to: • Preserve ethical standards • Protect against wasteful, harmful, or illegal acts – Laws protecting whistleblowers vary • Barriers to whistleblowing include: – Strict chain of command – Strong work group identities – Ambiguous priorities
  • 23. Social Responsibility • Sustainability: – acting in ways that support a high quality of life for present and future generations • Alternative energy • Recycling • Waste avoidance • Corporate social responsibility and governance: – Looks at ethical issues on the organization level. – Obligates organizations to act in ways that serve both its own interests and the interests of society at large.
  • 24. Social Responsibility • Stakeholder Management – Stakeholders: persons, groups, and other organizations directly affected by the behavior of the organization and holding a stake in its performance. – Stakeholder power: the capacity of the stakeholder to positively or negatively affect the operations of the organization. – Demand legitimacy: the validity and legitimacy of a stakeholder’s interest in the organization. – Issue urgency: the extent to which a stakeholder’s concerns need immediate attention.
  • 25. The Many Stakeholders of Organizations
  • 26. Social Responsibility • Perspectives on social responsibility: – Classical view • Management’s only responsibility is to maximize profits. – Socioeconomic view • Management must be concerned for the broader social welfare, not just profits.
  • 27. Social Responsibility • Perspectives on social responsibility: – Shared value view • Approaches business decisions with the understanding that economic and social progress are interconnected • Virtuous circle-socially responsible behavior improves financial performance which leads to more responsible behavior
  • 29. Four strategies of corporate social responsibility— from obstructionist to proactive behavior.
  • 30. Social Responsibility • Corporate governance: – The oversight of the top management of an organization by a board of directors. • Corporate governance involves: – Hiring, firing, and compensating the CEO. – Assessing strategy. – Verifying financial records. • How government influences organizations: – Businesses required by law to have boards of directors that are elected by stockholders
  • 31. Ethics Self-governance in Leadership and the Managerial Role