Professional Documents
Culture Documents
SUBMITTED BY GROUP 9 ANZA SHAFI FATHIMA NAZAR SHINEY GEORGE KAREN ANOOP BINIL THOMAS
ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
Organization
culture refers to a system of shared meaning held by members that distinguishes the oraganization from other organization.
and risk taking. Attention to detail Outcome orientation People oriented Team orientation Aggressiveness Stability
culture is concerned with how employees perceive the characteristics of an organization's culture , not with whether or not they like them. That is, it is a descriptive term. This is important because it differentiates this concept from that of job satisfaction.
ETHICS
Employment
practices
Human
rights
Environmental
regulations
Corruption
Moral
EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES
Firms
should establish minimal acceptable standards that safeguard the basic rights and dignity of employees and audit the foreign subsidiaries and subcontractors on a regular basis.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Basic
human rights are still not respected in many nations rights are not universally accepted such as freedom of: association speech assembly movement political expression
Many
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Ethical
issues arise when environmental regulations and/or enforcement are inferior to those in the home nation might result in higher levels of pollution from the operations of multinationals than would be allowed at home
This
CORRUPTION
Corruption
has a been a problem in almost every society in history and it continues to be one today
Some
international businesses can and have gained economic advantages by making payments to government officials
MORAL OBLIGATIONS
Multination
firms have power that comes from their control over resources and their ability to move production from country to country philosophers argue that with that power comes the social responsibility for multinationals to give back to the societies that enable them to prosper and grow
Some
ETHICAL DILEMMAS
Situations in which none of the available alternatives seems ethically acceptable
The
ethical obligations of multinational firms are not always clear-cut dilemmas exist because many decisions are complex, difficult to frame, and involve first-, second-, and third-order consequences which are hard to quantify
Ethical
PERSONAL ETHICS
Generally accepted principles of right and wrong governing the conduct of individuals
Our
personal ethical code exerts a profound influence on the way we behave as businesspeople first step to establishing a strong sense of business ethics is for a society to emphasize strong personal ethics
The
Expatriate
managers may experience more than the usual degree of pressure to violate their personal ethics
DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES
Several
studies of unethical behavior in business have concluded that businesspeople sometimes do not realize they are behaving unethically primarily because they simple fail to ask. the result of applying straight-forward business calculus to a decision without considering important ethical issues
Often
ORGANIZATION CULTURE
The
climate in some businesses does not encourage people to think through the ethical consequences of business decisions
Result
of an organizational culture that deemphasizes business ethics, reducing all decisions to be purely economic
Pressure from the parent company to meet unrealistic goals that can only be attained by cutting corners or acting in an unethical manner This often results in managers will violating their own personal ethics and engage in unethical behavior
An organizational culture with values that reinforce ethical behavior is an essential ethical component
LEADERSHIP
Leaders
help to establish the culture and values of an organization, and they set the example that others follow
ETHICS OFFICERS
Some
all employees are trained in ethics ethics is considered in the decisionmaking process the companys code of conduct is followed
MORAL COURAGE
Enables
managers to walk away from a decision that is profitable, but unethical Gives an employee the strength to say no to a superior who instructs her to pursue actions that are unethical Gives employees the integrity to go public to the media and blow the whistle on persistent unethical behavior in a company Does not come easily and employees have lost their jobs when acting on this courage
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