1. Quality Management, Ethics, and Corporate Social Responsibility Christina Frye Myriah Fillenwarth

2. Our Goals Tie the semester together for you Answer your questions Turn the view of ethics from a negative to a positive

3. Ground Rules Ask dumb questions Make mistakes Collaborate Have an open mind Share what you know Have fun!

4. Icebreaker

5. Objectives After this class you will be able to answer the following questions – What are ethics, integrity, values, and morals? – Why do we have unethical behavior? – How can we look at ethics from a systems view? – How does ethics fit into total quality? – How can we drive ethical behavior to instill total quality?

6. What Are Ethics? Ethics are about doing the right thing within a moral framework. The values of an individual or an organization define what is ethical.

7. What are Values? Values are deeply held beliefs that form the very core of who we are

8. Integrity Integrity is a combination of honesty and dependability

9. Moral What is right and what is wrong

10. What does it mean to be ethical? Why do we have unethical behavior?

11. Employees Needs and Wants (Maslow’s Hierarchy)

12. Ethics from a Systems View

13. Customer Focus

14. Leadership and Management Commitment

15. Four Cornerstones of Ethical Leadership Truth TellingPromise Keeping FairnessRespect for individual

16. Supplier Partnership

17. Employee Empowerment & Quality Culture

18. Employee Empowerment and Quality Culture Subpar Ordinary Good Enough Extraordinary How do we shift the distribution of our performers to gain more “extraordinary” performers?

19. Results if We Create an Ethical Culture Ethical Culture Customer Satisfaction & Trust Employee Commitment & Trust Profits Investor Loyalty & Trust

20. Continuous Process Improvement Good Enough is Never Good Enough Gap-cause analysis  root causes  ethics audits and feedback System-wide improvement Training-continuously improving ethics training Standardizing solutions  keep from reoccurring Move beyond what is in our internal system to look at the entire system

21. Corporate Social Responsibility An organization’s obligation to maximize its positive impact on stakeholders and to minimize its negative impact on society Four Levels – Legal – Economic – Ethical – Philanthropic

22. Code of Conduct Formal statements that describe what an organization expects of its employees Code of Ethics: comprehensive document consisting of general statements that serve as principles and the basis for the rules of conduct Statement of Values: serves the general public and addresses stakeholder interests

23. Activity Rules Divide into four organizations Think about the organization’s core values as they relate to the 5 pillars of total quality – Customer focus, leadership and management commitment, employee empowerment and quality culture, supplier partnership, continuous process improvement Come up with at least one statement for each pillar that you will include in your code of ethics/code of conduct How will you distribute your code or make it available to your employees?

24. Review Define ethics, value, integrity, and moral Who is at stake/impacted by our decisions? How does ethics fit into each of the 5 principles of TQ? TRUST

25. Enhance Transfer How will you apply something we talked about today? What is your goal?

26. References Best Buy Co., Inc. (2007). 2007 Corporate Social Responsibility Report. Retrieved April 2, 2010 from http://www.bbycommunications.com/csr/CSR_2007_Final.pdf Clawson, J. G. (2009). Level three leadership: Getting below the surface (4 th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Ferrell, O. C., Fraedrick, J., & Ferrell, L. (2010). Business ethics: Ethical decision making and cases: 2009 update (7 th ed.). Mason, OH: South-Western Cengage Learning. Goetsch, D. L., & Davis, S. B. (2010). Quality management for organizational excellence: Introduction to total quality (6 th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Henderson, D. R. & Hooper, C. L. (2009, September 9). Pfizer’s $2.3 billion-dollar settlement. Retrieved March 28, 2010 from www.forbes.com/2009/09/08. Nintendo of America. (2010). Nintendo of America’s code of conduct. Retrieved April 2, 2010 from http://www.nintendo.com/corp/coc.jsp Piechocki, M. (2007, October 1). Five orthopedic device companies reach settlement with DOJ for investigation into consulting practices. Retrieved March 29, 2010 from www.orthosupersite.com/view.aspx?rid=24187 University of Illinois Ethics Office. (2010). Code of conduct. Retrieved April 2, 2010 from http://ethics.uillinois.edu/policies/code.cfm YUM! Brand, Inc. (2010). Supplier code of conduct. Retrieved April 2, 2010 from http://www.kfc.com/about/supplier.asp.