This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of organizational ethics. The challenge of accepting or rejecting ethical standards is explored via Power Point speaker notes. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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balance several factors: What is profitable What is ethically defensible What is sustainable Slide 3 Embracing cultural subjectivity is excellent for managing diversity in an organization Accept diverse values
Accept diverse norms Rejecting all notions of objectivity, however, is flawed Policies and processes derived from objective standards Objective standards for performance benchmarks Must distinguish between two types of subjectivity:
Epistemological subjectivity: subjectivity of ideas, values Metaphysical subjectivity: subjectivity of external empirical reality (LaFave, 2008) Slide 4 Utilitarianism is an ethical stance advocating increasing happiness for the maximum amount
of people Used to justify distributive justice (equal distribution of resources / profits) (Lamont & Favor, 2007) Not valid for an organizational context which requires competition and hierarchy to function
Slide 5 Many organizational decisions have ethical component Organizations have recently decided to monitor employee computer usage (Mujtaba, 2007) However, this may well constitute an unethical violation of privacy
(Mujtaba, 2007) Slide 6 Organizations must consider ethics at all times Ethical treatment of employees Justified and defensible policies Yet they must also distinguish between which ethical prescriptions are
valid Speaker Notes: Ethical considerations have always played a major role within organizational settings. For this reason, it is vital that organizational leaders seriously consider the ethical dimension
of decisions and strategies to be employed. Sometimes, decisions founded in "sound" ethical principles may produce results undesirable for the organization. For instance, one might consider the distinction between subjectivity
and objectivity; often, adopting a subjective view of ethics and morality is recommended as a method to manage diversity and sensitivity. However, one must be careful to avoid allowing this
subjectivism to impact the aspects of an organization which are legitimately objective in nature (LaFave, 2008). One must avoid total relativism by distinguishing between metaphysical and epistemological subjectivity; it is