Business Ethics: Week 4- Employees and ethics

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  • Created on: 16-03-19 22:04
What are employees rights?
Employee rightsare worker’s entitlements with respect to their employer, based on a general understanding of human rights and often codified in employment law. Rights to… • freedom from discrimination • privacy • work • due process in hiring and firi
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What are employees duties (definition)
Employee duties is legally owed to employers from their employee, based on individual contracts and wider employment laws.
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First employees duty and example
Comply with the labourcontract • e.g. achieve an acceptable level of performance
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second employees duty and example
Respect the employer’s property • e.g. appropriate use of company time and resources
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third employees duty and example
Refrain from illegal activities • e.g. fraud, theft, embezzlement
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What are the 2 different ways to explain employee misconduct?
Rationalisation and Peer effects & the bystander effect
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What is rationalisation?
its not a big deal/ not my responsibility
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What is peer effects and the bystander effect?
Sense of belongingness /Loyalty Vs. fairness
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Theoretical Perspectives of Org. Misconduct (rational choice perspective)
Assumes self-interested actors need to be controlled to avoid inappropriate risk taking, accounts manipulation, etc. that would be beneficial for them but harmful for others
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Theoretical Perspectives of Org. Misconduct (strain theory)
1. Resorting to misconduct when one fails to achieve goals through legitimate means • Used to explore how gaps between goals and actual achievements result in misconduct in individual, organizational, societal levels
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Theoretical Perspectives of Org. Misconduct (Cultural and Network theories of misconduct )
How norms, values, and beliefs about attitudes and behaviors are deemed appropriate
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Theoretical Perspectives of Org. Misconduct (accidental misconduct)
Recognition that organizations are complex and that managers are limited in what they know
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