organizational ethics and norms
Using this example As an example, the president of a huge financial firm once took a young, high‐potential manager out to lunch and walked him right over to Brooks Brothers for a new suit. “You can’t get where you’re going in a cheap suit,” the president told the young man, who then continued to buy his suits at Brooks Brothers.
But individuals may behave according to the culture for another reason—because they have internalized cultural expectations. With internalization, individuals have adopted the external cultural standards as their own. Their behavior, though consistent with the culture, also accords with their own beliefs. Ideally, they come into the organization sharing its values and expectations, thus making for a very smooth transition. Or, they may internalize cultural expectations over time. In the above example, the young manager may have initially bought the Brooks Brothers suit because he felt compelled to; but over time, he continued to buy those suits probably because he had internalized the expectation and wanted to do so.
• Select a problem and/or dilemma to analyze, using different lenses to explore options for resolution.
• Choose an ethics case study related to organizational ethics and norms (i.e., find your own—from our textbook or online, making sure properly to document where it comes from).
• In the analysis, describe the problem with a brief background to the situation;
• justify why this issue should be considered an ethical dilemma—or not.
• Identify stakeholders (know what that means) and describe impacts, applying more than one and up to 4 different lenses (prescriptive theories, principles, or models) to examine resolution options.
• Identify the patterns and consistencies stemming from the multi-perspective analysis to create a final resolution, along with a concise defense of your solution recommendations.
