{"id":48055,"date":"2022-04-02T20:44:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T20:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/the-role-of-leadership-integrity-in-organizational-ethics-discussion\/"},"modified":"2022-04-02T20:44:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T20:44:52","slug":"the-role-of-leadership-integrity-in-organizational-ethics-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/the-role-of-leadership-integrity-in-organizational-ethics-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"The role of leadership integrity in organizational ethics discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>My discussion: <\/strong>\u00a0&amp; reply to jeffrey and edwards discussion<\/p>\n<p>Prior to beginning your discussion response, read <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/1994\/03\/managing-for-organizational-integrity\">Managing for organizational integrity\u00a0(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.<\/a>. \u00a0In the article, Paine (1994) described scenarios of various \u00a0organizations. Choose one of the ethics topics: integrity as a governing \u00a0ethic, emphasizing core values, building shared aspirations, or \u00a0defining right action.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Summarize the information shared in the article for your chosen topic.<\/li>\n<li>Describe how the ethics topic could be incorporated into your organization or an organization that you are familiar with.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guided Response: <\/strong>Review several of your classmates\u2019 \u00a0posts and respond to at least two of your peers by 11:59 p.m. on Day 7 \u00a0of the week. You are encouraged to post your required replies early \u00a0during the week to promote more meaningful interactive discourse in the \u00a0discussion. When responding to your classmate, offer at least one \u00a0suggestion of additional method(s) of incorporating their chosen ethical \u00a0topic into the organization.<\/p>\n<p>Your response must be a minimum of 150 words.<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Jeffreys discussion reply:<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Paine \u00a0(1994) described a high-pressure sales environment at Sears, Roebuck \u00a0&amp; Company in the automotive services business during the early \u00a01990\u2019s. Customers were frequently being sold parts and services that \u00a0they did not need. More than 40 states accused the company of acting \u00a0unethically and misleading customers which resulted in lawsuits and $60 \u00a0million in customer refunds. While upper management did not tell \u00a0employees to act this way, they helped create this type of environment \u00a0by increasing minimum work quotas and offering productivity incentives \u00a0for mechanics. If automotive service advisers did not meet their sales \u00a0quotas, they were often transferred or had their hours reduced. This \u00a0type of environment left employees with few options so they would often \u00a0sell parts or services that were not needed to meet their quotas.<\/p>\n<p>By evaluating integrity as a governing ethic, Sears clearly failed to \u00a0use integrity as a self-governing guiding principle for the \u00a0organization. Ethic\u2019s was unfortunately not a guiding value. Instead, \u00a0pushing sales at any cost appeared to be the company\u2019s guiding value. As \u00a0a result, this had a negative effect on its employees and customers. \u00a0Sears should have instead embraced ethical practices and integrity from \u00a0the top and encouraged responsible conduct. They should have had proper \u00a0codes of conduct in place, audits and controls, and an appropriate \u00a0system of incentives.<\/p>\n<p>While using integrity as a governing ethic is important for every \u00a0organization, I would suggest that Wells Fargo could also benefit from \u00a0some self-reflection in this area. Very similar to the Sears scenario, \u00a0Wells Fargo recently had similar issues with high-pressure sales at any \u00a0cost. Their employees were forced to meet quotas or be terminated. This \u00a0resulted in employees creating millions of fake bank accounts just to \u00a0keep their job. \u00a0Organizations should not sacrifice integrity or act \u00a0unethically for the sake of sales and growth. Having positive guiding \u00a0values and principles will actually help organizations by obeying laws \u00a0and avoiding legal sanctions. It is also the right thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>Reference:<\/p>\n<p>Paine, L. S. (1994, March-April).\u00a0Managing for organizational integrity.\u00a0<em>Harvard Business Review<\/em>. Retrieved from https:\/\/hbr.org\/1994\/03\/managing-for-organizational-integrity<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Reply to edwards discussion:<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When \u00a0it comes to doing the right thing, it comes with specific duties to \u00a0protect our own other people\u2019s dignity along with the rights of others. \u00a0\u201cRight action is defined as logically, expediently, and morally right. \u00a0Managers teach employees to look at the needs of the customers, \u00a0suppliers, and the community\u2014in addition to those of the company and its \u00a0employees\u2014when making decisions\u201d (Paine, 1994). This means that do unto \u00a0others the way you want to be treated in return along with using the \u00a0proper skill and technique to perform in an effective way. For instance, \u00a0it\u2019s not right to for an employee to get an attitude with a customer \u00a0because they are making a complaint about the product they received or \u00a0bullying a colleague for making a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>The right action can be combined with the ethics of care which \u00a0includes good characteristics that are used to communicate and develop \u00a0relationships with others. \u201cAn ethics of care seeks to discover how \u00a0people \u201csustain fragile networks of relations that allow people to grow \u00a0and prosper, developing trust, respect, and responsibility for each \u00a0other\u201d (Gabriel, 2009, p. 5.1). I chose the right action because it \u00a0worked well at my previous job within the parks and recreation \u00a0department. Just like the Wetherill Associates company that was used as \u00a0an example in the right action organizational ethic, my work group \u00a0consisted of a small number of workers.<\/p>\n<p>Honesty is also a moral that fits the right action because customers \u00a0lose trust in a business that lies and a colleague\u2019s morale will drop if \u00a0management is dishonest. I believe that both of those ethics can be \u00a0used in a small or large organization as long as the right employees are \u00a0in place. Upon hiring, new applicants can be tested through various \u00a0assessments to determine their character and train them as well through \u00a0policies and guidelines that management and human resources has designed \u00a0that enforce the right action and ethics of care.<\/p>\n<p>References<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel, Y. (2009). <em>Reconciling an ethic of care with critical management pedagogy<\/em>. Management Learning, 40(4), 379\u2013385. doi: 10.1177\/1350507609335846<\/p>\n<p>Paine, L. S. (1994, Mar.-Apr.). Managing for organizational integrity. Retrieved from <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/1994\/03\/managing-for-organizational-integrity\">https:\/\/hbr.org\/1994\/03\/managing-for-organizational-integrity\u00a0(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My discussion: \u00a0&amp; reply to jeffrey and edwards discussion Prior to beginning your discussion response, read Managing for organizational integrity\u00a0(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. \u00a0In the article, Paine (1994) described scenarios of various \u00a0organizations. 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