Instruction
FIRST PAPER (400-500 words): discuss what you see as the role of ethics as it pertains to management and managers. Does management, in your view, help shape the values and ethics of an organization? Is employee behavior, ethical or not, a by-product of the organization's ethical climate? What ideally is the manager's role in helping to create and maintain organizational integrity?
Using your professional experience as a backdrop, provide examples of managers who have demonstrated ethical behavior (or not) and discuss how this affected the organization, the employees, etc.
SECOND PAPER (3 pages, double spaced) : Pick an organization (public or private) and then choose a particular type of COI "Conflict of Interest" that is associated with this type of organization.
Locate and describe any laws that are designed to discourage or prevent this type of COI in your country (USA plz). If there are no laws particular to the type of COI you chose, discuss why this is the case.
Locate examples of organizational policies used to also discourage the particular COI and discuss how the main features of the policy around the particular COI.
Discuss ways that managers can use both policy and the existing laws in your home country to discourage employees seeking their own interests over that of the employer.
In your estimation, do laws and policies help promote ethical behavior? Do you feel that the laws, as they are currently, are sufficient and effective?
Finally, suggest ways that the laws and/or policies could be improved to both motivate employees to pursue the interests of their employers, as well as to minimize the costs of employers complying with or enforcing the laws.