Question

1) Do organizational leaders send a clear ethics message? Is ethics part of their “leadership” agenda? Are managers trained to be ethical leaders?

2) Does a formal code of ethics and/or values exist? Is it distributed? How widely? Is it used? Is it reinforced in other formal systems, such as performance management and decision‐making systems?

3) Is misconduct disciplined swiftly and justly in the organization, no matter what the organizational level?

4) Are employees encouraged to report problems, and are formal channels available for them to make their concerns known confidentially?

5) Are employees and managers oriented to the values of the organization in orientation programs? Are they trained in ethical decision making?

Answer 1

1. The message sent out by the organizational leader regarding ethics is not clear. The ethics message is never a direct agenda of theirs. The managers are trained to be the leaders and are often deemed that will follow the ethical code of conduct.
2. Yes, a formal code of conduct does exist in every business. It is not used widely by the organizations and is generally reinformed for the decision making and performance checking of the businesses during the time of crisis or when they are asked to.
3. No, the misconduct is not swiftly and justly disciplined at every level of the business. It is mostly disciplined smoothly at a lower level but at a higher level, it takes a prolonged action time.
4. The employees are often given options to report the problems they are facing in the business. They are also provided with the channels for the same. But the truth is that employees are not mostly asked to be vocal about their problems and indirectly asked to deal with them.
5. In most of the organizations, the staff and the employees are trained for the ethical code of conduct. They are trained for ethical decision making too. But when the same training comes for the application purposes. mostly not a lot of things are done at the front. Thus, ethical training, debarring in a few corporates, resorts to just some theoretical knowledge.

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