PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

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PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

• THE FIRMS DUTIES TO THE EMPLOYEE
• THE POLITICAL ORGANIZATION
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THE FIRMS DUTIES TO THE EMPLOYEE

• Main Obligations
• Wages
• Working Conditions

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1) Wages

• Fair Wages Depend On
• Local wages
• Firms ability to pay
• Burdens of the job
• Minimum wage laws
• Fair relation to other salaries in the firm
• Fair wage negotiations
• Local living cost

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2) Working Conditions

• A) Health and Safety
• Fair working conditions
• Moral responsibilities of employer
• B) Job Satisfaction
• Job Specialization

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A) Health and Safety

• Necessary Fair Working Conditions
• Studying and eliminating job risks
• Compensating for risk
• Informing workers of known risks
• Insuring workers against unknown risks

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• Employer Is Morally Responsible for Bad Working
  Conditions If Employer
• Can and should improve them
• Knows about them
• Is not prevented from changing
• Conflicts
• Fail in the wages
• Workers might accept risks unknowingly because
  they dont know enough about it
• Workers might accept known risks because of
  difficulty of transfer

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B) Job Satisfaction

• Depends on experienced meaningfulness,
  responsibility experienced, knowledge of results.
• Is increased by improving change of skill, job
  identity, job significance, feedback.
• Job Specialization
• Limiting employees job tasks (horizontal) or
  the
• restriction of an employees job control and
• decision making (vertical)

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• Determinants
• (argued by Hackman, Oldham, Jansen, Purdy)
• Experienced meaningfulness
• Experienced responsibility
• Knowledge of results
• Dimensions
• Skill Variety
• Task Identity
• Task Significance
• Autonomy Feedback

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THE POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

• A great deal of the organizational behavior
• is
• NOT goal directed,
• NOT efficient,
• NOT rational

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• Sources of Political Behavior in an
  Organization
• There is always
• Factional division
• Battle for scarce resources
• Arbitrary actions by superiors
• Disagreements over strategy and goals

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• To understand these behaviors and ethical
  issues we have to look at the model of the firm.
• Political Model of the Organization
• View of the organization as a system of
  competing power coalitions communication from
  these coalitions as formal or informal.