Ethics In Business

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In a meeting with HR managers for Informational Systems, you learn that the organization is updating their Code of Conduct so as to be consistent with the latest developments in the industry.

Discussion Prompt

Based on the ethical principles you yourself believe in, what guidelines would you like to see in a company’s Code of Conduct?

Grading

Share your opinions below and respond to two of your classmates’ thoughts.

Criteria Not Evident Developing Exemplary Points
Submit your initial response 0 pts
No post made		 2 pts
Post is either late or off-topic		 5 pts
Post is made on time and is focused on the prompt		 5 pts
Respond to at least two peers’ presentations 0 pts
No response to peers		 2 pts
Responded to only one peer		 5 pts
Responded to two peers		 5 pts
Total: 10 pts
 
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Social Diversity in the Workplace

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Discussion: Social Diversity in the Workplace

As a consultant for Workplace Solutions Consulting, you meet with members of the software development organization to document the multi-generational issues that have been reported—namely that people are not getting along and working well together. During your meeting, you notice that the individuals representing the Baby Boomers are predominately white males, while the Millennials seem to be comprised of people from foreign nationalities, people of color, and women.

Discussion Prompt

What questions would you ask to ascertain the nature of the multi-generational issues? What questions would you ask to understand if there may be other issues relating to race and gender?

Grading

Share your opinions below and respond to two of your classmates’ thoughts.

Criteria Not Evident Developing Exemplary Points
Submit your initial response 0 pts
No post made		 2 pts
Post is either late or off-topic		 5 pts
Post is made on time and is focused on the prompt		 5 pts
Respond to at least two peers’ presentations 0 pts
No response to peers		 2 pts
Responded to only one peer		 5 pts
Responded to two peers		 5 pts
Total: 10 pts
 
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Introduction to Organizational Behavior

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Discussion: Introduction to Organizational Behavior

Workplace Solutions Consulting LLC is a consulting company that helps organizations increase performance through workforce enhancement. You are a consultant for WSC and have been assigned to a project involving a large technology company, Informational Systems Inc. The company is considering some organizational changes in order to better respond to rapid changes in the business environment. You are to meet with different departments and areas of the company in order to analyze and evaluate the status quo. At the end of your investigation, you and your team will present recommendations for change in the organization.
Prior to your first on-site meeting with IS personnel, you review a list of issues that have been collected through initial conversations with the new client.
One of the issues that has been identified for further evaluation involves the multi-generational nature of the workforce in the software development area at IS. There seems to be a fair amount of friction being reported between the staff. Due to the company’s rapid growth through the acquisition of smaller technology companies, the organization has grown a development organization consisting of Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials.

Discussion Prompt

Is this a good or bad thing? What are the benefits of a multi-generational workforce? What are the challenges?

Grading

Share your opinions below and respond to two of your classmates’ thoughts.

Criteria Not Evident Developing Exemplary Points
Submit your initial response 0 pts
No post made		 2 pts
Post is either late or off-topic		 5 pts
Post is made on time and is focused on the prompt		 5 pts
Respond to at least two peers’ presentations 0 pts
No response to peers		 2 pts
Responded to only one peer		 5 pts
Responded to two peers		 5 pts
Total: 10 pts
 
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Change Management and Conflict Resolution

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Scenario

As the lead consultant for Workplace Solutions Consulting, you are the one to deliver recommendations for organizational change to the management of Informational Systems. Some of the ideas involve centralizing some duplicated administration functions in regional locations and others involve de-centralizing product departments to break down silo walls across locations. You collected significant data in order to conduct the best analysis. The bottom line: although all of these changes are for the better for organization, they will be quite disruptive to the personnel at IS.

Your Task

Part I

You used the data you collected in order to arrive at the most-informed decisions possible regarding changes to the organization. What steps would you follow and what information would you collect to ensure sound data-driven decisions?

Part II

It is now time to execute the reorganization of Informational Systems. Describe how you would implement the following:

  1. The centralization of Finance and HR (no jobs lost, but increased specialization and responsibility).
  2. The de-centralization of the heretofore separate product departments (break up of existing teams, reforming new teams, and new reporting relationships).
 
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