The document discusses two examples of ethical issues that may arise in the workplace. The first involves a competitor's bid being leaked to an organization and whether they should use it in their own bid. The second involves a salesperson concealing information from a customer to meet sales quotas. It notes that handling such ethical issues can significantly help or hurt an organization. It also discusses how companies are increasingly developing ethics programs to address inevitable ethical problems at all levels of a business. Establishing clear ethics guidelines in the form of codes of conduct and ethics training can help maximize long-term profits and foster organizational health.

1. Workplace
Ethics
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Two Ethical
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3. Ethics: Two Examples #1
 Imagine that one day someone in
your organization walks in with a
copy of your chief competitor's
bid on a big contract.
– They swear they got it legally,
although you are not certain.
– Whether they did or did not, it
remains proprietary information.
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4. Ethics: Two Examples #1
 Are you going to use it in
developing your bid?
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5. Ethics: Two Examples #2
 What if someone in sales is up
against some very tough
quarterly objectives.
 But they can be achieved by
concealing from a customer that
the product being sold will be
made obsolete by a new line in
six months.
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6. Ethics: Two Examples #2
 Is the behavior of the
salesperson justifiable?
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7. Debrief:
An Organization’s Actions
 These cases have two things in
common:
– how they are handled can
dramatically help or hurt your
organization and they are both
examples of ethical issues.
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8. Debrief:
An Organization’s Actions
 Ethical problems are inevitable at
all levels of a business:
– this means that it is simply good
sense for companies to take the
task of institutionalizing ethics in
their organizations seriously.
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9. Debrief:
An Organization’s Actions
 The number of ethic programs in
corporations is growing as their
usefulness becomes increasingly
more evident.
 CEO's of ethically committed
corporations believe:
– no matter how large the financial
gain may be from doing something
unethical, there is a cost
somewhere else in the business.
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10. Debrief:
An Organization’s Actions
 CEO's who have committed their
corporations to ethics have done
so in the name of maximizing
long-term profits and fostering
the health of their organizations.
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Slides include: 7 points on two examples, 8 points on an organization’s
actions, 13 points on what is workplace ethics, 6 points on why be ethical,
11 points on ethics programs, 7 points on ethics programs as insurance, 3
points on ethics programs creating citizenship, 4 points on ethics
programs building values, 5 points on ethics programs building image, 8
points on ethics programs offering more, 10 points on codes of values, 11
principles, 6 points on why have a code of ethics, 19 points on why have
a code of conduct, 4 resources required, 22 points on ethics of justice, 18
points on ethics of care, 32 points on the resolving ethical dilemmas, 16
points on ethics programs, 19 points on structure, 7 points on publicizing
commitment, 9 points on training, 9 points on managing ethics as a
process, 6 points on the bottom line, 4 points on avoiding ethical
dilemmas, 5 points on custom made to fit, 5 points on consulting key
stakeholders, 8 points on bewaring of outsourcing, 6 points on grant
forgiveness, 5 points on mistakes, 11 points on special challenges, 28
points on key roles and responsibilities in ethics management, 46 points
on decision making guides, 49 common ethic code provisions, 52 points
on writing a code of ethics, and finally16 action steps.
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