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Ethical climate

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Employees perceptions about the extent to which work environments support ethical behavior

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Triple bottom line

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Representing people, planet, and profit (3 P’s). Measures an organizations social, environmental, and financial performance

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Social audit

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Systematic assessment of a company’s performance in implementing socially responsible programs, often based on predefined goals

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Stakeholders

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People whose interests are affected by an organizations activities

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Internal stakeholders

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Employees, owners, and the board of directors

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Owners

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All those who can claim the organization as their legal property

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Sole proprietorship

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One man operation

You running your own business

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Partnership

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2 people in a byusiness together

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External stakeholders

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People or groups in the organizations external environment that are affected by it

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Task environment

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Eleven groups that present you with daily tasks to handle: customers, competitors, suppliers, distributors, strategic allies, employee organizations, local communities, financial institutions, government regulators, special interest groups, and mass media

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Customers

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Those who pay to use an organizations goods or services

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Competitors

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People or organizations that compete for customers or resources

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Supplier

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People or organizations that provide supplies - that is raw materials, services, equipment, labor, or energy to other organizations

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Distributor

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People or organization that help another organization sell its good and services to customers

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Strategic allies

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The relationship of two organizations who join forces to achieve advantages neither can perform as well alone

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Claw backs

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Rescinding (cancelling) the tax breaks when firms don’t deliver promised jobs

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Venture capital

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Is money provided by investors to start up firms and small businesses with high risk but perceived long term growth potential, in return for an ownership stake

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Crowdfunding

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Raising money for a project by obtaining small amounts of money from many people

Kickstarter

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Government regulators (external stakeholder)

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External stakeholders

Regulatory agencies that establish ground rules under which organizations may operate

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Special-interest groups

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Groups whose members try to influence specific issues

PETA, MADD

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General environment / macro environment

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In contract to the task environment

Includes: economic, technological, sociocultural, demographic, political-legal, and international

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Economic forces

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General economic conditions and trends - unemployment, inflation, interest rates, economic growth - that may affect an organizations performance

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Technological forces

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New developments in methods for transforming resources into goods and services

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Sociocultural forces

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Influences and trends originating in a country’s, society’s, or a cultures human relationships and values that may affect an organization

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Demographic forces

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Influences on an organization arising from changes in the characteristics of a population, such as age, gender, or ethnic origin

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Political- legal forces

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Changes in the way politics shape laws and laws shape the opportunities for the threats in an organization

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International forces

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Changes in the economic, political, legal, and technological global system that may affect an organization

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Ethical dilemma

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A situation in which you have to decide weather to pursue a course of action that may benefit you or your organization but that is unethical or even illegal

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Ethics

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Standards of right and wrong that influence behavior

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Ethical behavior

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Behavior that is accepted as “right” as opposed to “wrong” according to those standards

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Abusive supervision

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Subordinates perception of the extent to which supervisors engage in the sustained display of hostile verbal and non verbal behaviours, excluding physical contact

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Workplace cheating

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Unethical acts that are intended to create an unfair advantage or help attain benefits that an employee would not otherwise be entitled to receive

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Value system

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The pattern of values within an organization

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Values

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Abstract ideas that guide one’s thinking and behavior across all situations; the relatively permanent and deeply held underlying belief and attitudes that help determine a persons behavior

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Utilitarian apporach

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One of four approaches to solving ethical dilemmas; ethical behavior is guided by what will result in the greatest good for the number of people

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Individual approach

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One of four approaches to solving ethical dilemmas; ethical behavior is guided by what will result in the individuals best long term interest, which ultimately are in everyone’s self interest

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Moral rights approach

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One of four approaches to solving ethical dilemmas; ethical behavior is guided by respect for the fundamental rights of human beings

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Justice approach

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One of four approaches to solving ethical dilemmas

Ethical behaviours is guided by respect for impartial standards of fairness and equity

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Insider trading

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Illegal trading of a company’s stock by people using confidential company information

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Sarbanes-Oxley ACT of 2002

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Established requirements for proper financial record keeping for public companies and penealties for noncompliance

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Kohlberg Stage one

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Preconventional - follows rules

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Kohlberg stage 2

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Level 2, conventional - follows expectations of others

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Kohlberg stage 3

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Level 3, postconventional - guided by internal values

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4 ways a organization can promote ethics

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1) create a strong ethical climate
2) screening prospective employees
3) instituting ethic codes and training programs
4) protecting whistleblowers

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Code of ethics

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A formal, written set of ethical standards that guide an organizations actions

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Whistle blower

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An employee who reports organizational misconduct to the public

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Social responsibility

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Managers duty to take actions that will benefit the interest of society as well as of the organization

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR)

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The notion that corporations are expected to go above and beyond folllwing the law and making a profit, to take actions that will benefit the interests of the society as well as the organization

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Corporate social responsibility pyramid

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Philanthropic Responsibility
Ethical responsibility
Legal responsibility
Economic responsibility

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Natural capital

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The value of natural resources, such as topsoil, air water, and genetic diversity which humans depend on

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Philanthropy

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Making charitable donations to benefit humankind

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Corporate governance

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The system of governing a company so that the interests of corporate owners and other stakeholders are protected