Agenda Questions re work plan Quiz, the first Group work: chapter 2 Presentations on chapter 2 Group process discussion Ethics in the work place

Chapter 2 Cultivating culture and ethical behavior

Group Assignment For each concept Define the concept in everyday terms Give an example from OSU or the workplace Evaluate usefulness of concept to choosing and getting along in an organization

All groups Does OSU have a unique culture? If so, what is it? What might it have in common with other academic settings?

Important concepts Layers of organizational culture Functions of culture Embedding culture Socialization process Subcultures/countercultures Mentoring Ethics: major ethical issues at OSU; how do students learn ethical standards?

Ethics & social responsibility Ethical behavior: that which is accepted as morally good and right as opposed to bad and wrong Social responsibility: “the obligations of organizations to behave in ethical and moral ways as institutions of the broader society” (Schermerhorn et. al, p. 14.

Ways of thinking about ethics Utilitarian Delivers the greatest good to greatest number of people; consider the results and consequences Individualism Best for an individual’s long-term self-interest Moral-rights view Respects fundamental rights shared by all human beings (life, liberty, fair treatment by law)

Ways of thinking Common-good One’s own good inextricably linked to good of community Justice/fairness Fair and impartial Procedural: rules and processes properly followed Distributive: all treated the same, regardless of trait Virtue Ideals to which we should all aspire: honesty, compassion, generosity……..

Ethical dilemmas Is it ethical to: Quit without giving adequate notice? Monitor employees - without telling them? Withhold information that might discourage someone from taking a job with your organization? Offer financial incentives for good health habits? Pay women less than men since they don’t ask for higher wages when hired? Ask so much of someone that they have to choose between a job and a life?

Five questions…. What benefits and harms will each course of action produce: which will lead to best overall consequences? What moral right do affected parties have; which course of action respects those rights? Which course of action treats everyone same-- except where there is a moral justification not to-- and does not show favoritism or discrimination? Which course of action advances the common good? Which action develops moral virtues?

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