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Functions of Codes of Ethics Hughes CaseCompliance vs. Integrity

Row 1, Col 1 Under this function, codes provide rules that set thresholds and punishments for those who fall below these thresholds What is the function of Discipline?

1,2 Hughes Aircraft was responsible for manufacturing these for use in military hardware. What are analogue to digital computer chips?

1,3 Codes under this strategy seek to (1) provide rules that outline minimum standards of acceptable behavior, (2) develop systems of monitoring compliance, and (3) set forth sanctions for punishing non-compliance. What are compliance codes?

1,4 1. Provide increased protection to whistle-blowers 2. Require adherence to an established code of ethics 3. Provide "full, fair, timely and understandable disclosure" 4. Require maintenance of “ honest and ethical" behavior. 5. Mandate reporting ethics violations promptly 6. Insist on compliance with "applicable governmental laws, rules, and regulations" What are some of the provisions of Sarbanes-Oxley?

2,1 Under this function, codes seek to inform the members of a community of ideals of conduct as well as minimally acceptable standards What is education?

2,2 This Hughes official, manager of micro- circuit manufacturing, threw his glasses at Margaret Goodearl when told that she was considering initiating a harassment complaint against him. Who was Frank Saia?

2,3 Under this approach to codes, the goal is to (1) a community shared ideals, or values, (2) provide for community members who strive to realize these, and (3) seek to lock a community onto a trajectory of continual improvement. What is an integrity or values-based approach to codes of ethics?

2,4 1.reducing unethical behaviors 2.encouraging ethical advice seeking 3.increasing awareness of ethical issues 4.producing perceptions of better decision-making 5.solidifying commitment to the organization 6.building employee integrity 7.increasing willingness to deliver bad news What are seven standards Weaver and Trevino use to assess codes of ethics?

3,1 Often communities use codes of ethics and statements of value to bring community members together to debate issues of importance and contention What is the function of Stimulating Dialogue?

3,2 These tests carried out by Hughes test operators were necessary to ensure that the chips could operate effectively under battle conditions. What are the Temperature Cycle, Constant Acceleration, Mechanical Shock, and Hermeticity tests?

3,3 Corporate, professional, and academic. What are three different codes of ethics for three different organizational environments?

3,4 1. reducing unethical behavior 2. encouraging ethical advice seeking 3. increasing awareness of ethical issues 4. producing perceptions of better decision-making What are improvements that occur when an organization implements a compliance code?

4,1 Beside using punishments to enforce compliance with minimum standards codes also do this to motivate members to strive after ideals. What is the function of inspiration?

4,2 Margaret Goodearl and Ruth Ibarra brought documented evidence of Hughes test skipping here. What is the Inspector General Office of the US Department of Defense?

4,3 According to agency theory, an action breaks down into these two dimensions. What is the principal or originator of the action and the agent or executor of the action?

4,4 1.reducing unethical behaviors 2.encouraging ethical advice seeking 3.increasing awareness of ethical issues 4.producing perceptions of better decision-making 5.solidifying commitment to the organization 6.building employee integrity 7.increasing willingness to deliver bad news What are the improvements brought about by implementing aspirational or value- based codes?

5,1 In engineering, professional codes have been used have been used to support engineers who have been fired or subject to other forms of retaliation for refusing to violate code provisions that represent “clear mandates of public policy.” Who are the functions of empowering and protecting?

5,2 What is the name of the lawsuit initiated by Goodearl and Ibarra to bring to the attention of the government Hughes’s wrongdoing? What is a qui tam (on behalf of) lawsuit?

5,3 These require “exercising due diligence in hiring and assigning personnel to positions with substantial authority What are the Federal Sentencing Guidelines?

5,4 These codes of ethics use a compliance approach to set minimum standards and an integrity approach to help a community engender ideals. What are the codes that, according to Weaver and Trevino, produce the most positive organizational effects?