What are organizational cultures?

Organizational cultures and ethical behavior

Organizational cultures usually evaluate a company’s ethical behavior. All of a company’s principles typically serve as the foundation for its legal principles and organizational culture. There are some business ethics of organizational culture, such as performance appraisals, openness, networking, preparation, and educational initiatives. Most workers are regulated by accountability and contact policies that direct and encourage them to air their complaints and express their views to their superiors (Goel and Ramanathan, 50). It is important for all companies to provide ongoing employee training plans. The act ensures that the staff develops their careers well and becomes more accountable in all aspects. In emphasizing the organizational codes of standards, the program can be employed to give an insight into different ethical dilemmas.

Importance of ethical concern in an organization

In an organization, it is important to prioritize ethical concern for a smooth running of its daily business. Thus, the officer responsible in the company should take measures to ensure that everybody in the business at whatever level or position has maintained high ethical values. Some of the actions that one should apply are to devise an elaborate code of conduct that should be on the notice board to ease access to every member. The codes should define the policies of the company and outline acceptable code. Another way is to create compliance programs that would train people in ethical concerns. Besides, the officer can report any violation of law to relevant authorities.

Corporate social responsibility

Corporate social responsibility theory encourages the staff to maximize their ethical interaction within the working environment. It is also a conception of obligations to profit maximization and improve the community welfare. The corporate social responsibility is obliged to perform economic, legal, ethical and philanthropic responsibilities.

Role of performance appraisal in motivating ethical behavior

For motivation of particular behavior in a firm, performance appraisal plays a crucial role to ensure success (Goel and Ramathan, 51). If the employee’s assessment exceeds the responsibilities of accomplishment level, it may appear more significant since their corporate code of conduct can be evaluated efficiently. Awarding those individuals who perform their job ethically should be done, and those who act in the opposite way should be dealt with according to the guiding policies.

The difference between ethical and legal issues

In a corporate sphere, both the ethical and legal issues seem to have close connection, but the two subjects should not get interchanged. In some cases, depending on the governing laws, ethical terms may be identified as illegal. Regarding an individual point of view, ethical issues appears to be corporate-based or personal (Goel and Ramathan, 53). On the other side, legal acts seem applicable to everyone in an organization. Norms such as organizational culture form the background of ethical standards in any corporate spectrum in comparison with the legal standards, which are objective.

Ethical dilemma in the case of TechFite

TechFite inappropriately uses available resources through the allocation of too many finances to senior staffs despite the company being in a critical state of insufficient funds. Such acts brings a dilemma concerning the ethical concept whereby I intervened as a human resource manager had to decide on whether to remain loyal to the organization or the high ranked staffs in the company. Divulging the information will include blowing the whistle. However, ethically upright aspect emphasizes on the significance of being loyal to the organization and the stakeholders who finance the company. Similarly, displaying unethical characters gives employees courage to advocate the transparency and the honesty thereby creating a serene working surrounding. In the organizations that support transparency, communications and honesty, whistleblowing should be embraced positively.

The importance of reputation for an organization

The reputation of an organization is very crucial to the society. Since the image of a company to public develops gradually, the TechFite’s image has weakened its status in the city of Dellberg for a short period. The company has reduced the working hours of the employees; thus they cannot enjoy the benefits of full-time working period. Such act does not only exploit human labor in Dellberg but also unethically leave them bankrupt. Moreover, the organization failed to accomplish its agenda of financing the community development activities such as improving the infrastructure and youth development programs. Such a failure is unethical and creates mistrust of the local people. Besides, it made a promise to utilize production technologies that are environmentally friendly, and it failed. TechFite has a high reputation in Britain. The culture of organization attached to TechFite is not evident in Dellberg, thus the company is risking losing its business within Dellberg and harming its activities in Britain.

Recommendations for the human resource manager at TechFite

For a manager in human resource department, it is crucial to regulate the amount of bonus allocated to the senior staff to reduce misuse of limited available resources. Some of the issues in the company at the Dellberg branch are related to money. Since the organization thumps chest itself as the leading in works empowerment and engagement, it should take that to create its reputation by allowing full-time working conditions to every employee in the company. Besides, the company should focus its investment on environmentally friendly production techniques. Additionally, for it to restore its reputation, the company should first honor its initial promises for development in Dellberg before starting new ones.

The importance of ethical decision-making and its impact on TechFite

It is an ethical concern to make a report to the top executives about any excess bonus since it is a wrongdoing correction act. Similarly, the financial standing of the TechFite will be improved by the moral decision that will make the firm achieve its environmental and social commitments. Correcting the TechFite is vital since it can prevent deteriorating its public image, hence making it possible for the firm to withstand competition from both Dellberg and Britain.

Work Cited

Goel, Mridula, and Ms. Preeti E. Ramanathan. “Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility – Is there a Dividing Line?” Procedia Economics and Finance, vol. 11, 2014, pp. 49-59.