COMM 104 Chapter 9: Chapter 9.docx

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Commerce
• Course: COMM 104
• Professor: Karen Humphreys Blake

Document Summary

Ethics in the workplace: routine decisions: decisions made every day, more or less spontaneous, analysis frozen into habit , strongly influenced by organizational culture which provides norms and expectations, this means that if the norm ignores ethical concerns, it becomes habit which represents 3 challenges for ethics in organizations, organizations should make sure that their culture is strong enough so that habitual ways of responding include solid ethical prototypes, organizations must ensure that employees are sensitive to ethics, through training, dialogue and ethical leadership, organizations must be willing to question current practices to allow the prototypes behind them that might lack ethics to be reviewed, ethical awareness is achieved in a given situation when a person realizes that their actions could affect the interests, welfare, or expectations of other people, even when a specific moral norm or principle does not come to mind, crucial to ensuring that ethical reasoning process will be triggered.