Describe how leaders in the workplace can influence ethical culture
Describe at least 3 ways ethics are effectively communicated throughout an organization
Background
The focus of our studies this week is on how ethical culture affects the workplace environment and the various factors that affect ethical culture itself.
One of the most important means for improving ethical culture is through communication. Leaders in an organization establish the culture and impact morale with the messages they communicate. When leaders convey messages and follow through on them, employees have reason to put faith in their leaders. If a manager says the business will offer a certain benefit, for instance, following through translates the words into meaningful action.
This week we will talk about the role communication plays in steering ethical culture within an organization.
A leader’s primary responsibility is to disseminate information to followers. When a leader communicates effectively, each person in the organization knows his role within a team or department. Employees understand how their activities contribute to the organization’s overall goals. Great leaders also share information, both good and bad, about pending events that could impact the organization (Kokemuller, 2016).
For example, have you ever worked for an organization where everything seemed like a “surprise?” You had no idea certain policies were in place, no idea about the vision or direction of the company, and felt that leadership spoke out of both sides of their mouth? These types of behaviors can significantly hinder an organization’s ethical culture.
The TV show UnderCover Boss often illustrates how mis-communication from leadership leaves employees to make their own ethical decisions regarding corporate policy. They often provide an “image” of the organization that leadership would not like to portray and may not align with the leaders and organization’s overall ethical culture. It’s interesting to consider that leaders need not just communicate with their staff, but communicate effectively to ensure the intended message regarding corporate culture is received correctly.
Kokemuller, N. (2016). The role of communication in effective and ethical leadership. Retrieved fromhttp://work.chron.com/role-communication-effective-ethical-leadership-31071.html (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
Prompt
Begin by reviewing the text concerning ethical culture and communication. Next, imagine that you are the leader of an organization in the field of which you are intending to make your career and the ethical culture of this organization is unhealthy. You are concerned and want to steer the culture in the right direction. Pretend that you and several committees have already investigated the nature of the unhealthy ethical culture. Through a memo of at least 600 words, citing at least one APA reference (your text is fine), address the members of your organization. The audience can be all members of the organization or a certain section.
Be sure that each of the following elements are included in your 600 words:
1. A description of the organization.
2. A detailed description as to what is unhealthy about the current ethical culture of the organization.
3. A clear description of the goal or goals to be attained.
4. An example of another organizational culture that has a healthy ethical culture. Use one of the many examples in the text or find your own citing an outside resource in APA formatting.
5. A discussion of how ethical culture will continue to be evaluated, so that future problems can be quickly identified and culture continuously improved.
Explain how Ethical Culture, such as management and authority, affect the workplace
Describe how leaders in the workplace can influence ethical culture
Describe at least 3 ways ethics are effectively communicated throughout an organization
Background
The focus of our studies this week is on how ethical culture affects the workplace environment and the various factors that affect ethical culture itself.
One of the most important means for improving ethical culture is through communication. Leaders in an organization establish the culture and impact morale with the messages they communicate. When leaders convey messages and follow through on them, employees have reason to put faith in their leaders. If a manager says the business will offer a certain benefit, for instance, following through translates the words into meaningful action.
This week we will talk about the role communication plays in steering ethical culture within an organization.
A leader’s primary responsibility is to disseminate information to followers. When a leader communicates effectively, each person in the organization knows his role within a team or department. Employees understand how their activities contribute to the organization’s overall goals. Great leaders also share information, both good and bad, about pending events that could impact the organization (Kokemuller, 2016).
For example, have you ever worked for an organization where everything seemed like a “surprise?” You had no idea certain policies were in place, no idea about the vision or direction of the company, and felt that leadership spoke out of both sides of their mouth? These types of behaviors can significantly hinder an organization’s ethical culture.
The TV show UnderCover Boss often illustrates how mis-communication from leadership leaves employees to make their own ethical decisions regarding corporate policy. They often provide an “image” of the organization that leadership would not like to portray and may not align with the leaders and organization’s overall ethical culture. It’s interesting to consider that leaders need not just communicate with their staff, but communicate effectively to ensure the intended message regarding corporate culture is received correctly.
Kokemuller, N. (2016). The role of communication in effective and ethical leadership. Retrieved fromhttp://work.chron.com/role-communication-effective-ethical-leadership-31071.html (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
Prompt
Begin by reviewing the text concerning ethical culture and communication. Next, imagine that you are the leader of an organization in the field of which you are intending to make your career and the ethical culture of this organization is unhealthy. You are concerned and want to steer the culture in the right direction. Pretend that you and several committees have already investigated the nature of the unhealthy ethical culture. Through a memo of at least 600 words, citing at least one APA reference (your text is fine), address the members of your organization. The audience can be all members of the organization or a certain section.
Be sure that each of the following elements are included in your 600 words:
1. A description of the organization.
2. A detailed description as to what is unhealthy about the current ethical culture of the organization.
3. A clear description of the goal or goals to be attained.
4. An example of another organizational culture that has a healthy ethical culture. Use one of the many examples in the text or find your own citing an outside resource in APA formatting.
5. A discussion of how ethical culture will continue to be evaluated, so that future problems can be quickly identified and culture continuously improved.
EXPERT ANSWER
ethical behavior of a firm should be designed by the top management to the organization only. the board of directors are the responsible people for the actions of the firm in both success and failures also. a company must have an ethics program to ensure that all employees understand its values and comply with the policies and codes of conduct that creates ethical climate of the firm.
a good ethics program must be designed by the top management and board of directors of the organization. the characteristics of good ethics program includes: good leadership practices with approval of majority people in the organization, consistancy between the words and actions of the top management, fairness and fair practices of the management, openness of the organization culture to discuss about organization policies and procedures. these ethical aspects consists of 6 core values to a firm, namely; trustworthiness, respect, responsibililty, fairness, caring and responsibility.
if there are unhelthy ethical practices in the organization it leads to destroy the culture of the organization and at the end it results with destruction of the firm.
a clear and specified goals with defined conditons and roles helps the firm to use their resources in better way. the organization should display their goals which always inspire them towards the organizational goals and objectives. the distance they travelled towards excellence, the mile stones they achieved in this process, the obstacles they faced during the journey, how they stands irrespective of all these issues; these only inspires the employees towards corporate goals and objectives.
there are no definitions for good and special organizational cultures. the only culture which makes the organization best in its activities, meet the obligations of all stakeholders and meet the social responsibilities. the firm which satisfy all its stakeholders, it can run in a sustainable way for a longer time than other firms. there are many benefits with ethical programs in organizations like; attract the talent and retain them, gets investors loyalty, gets more satisfied customers and so on.