Code of Ethics and Unethical Activities in Management

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Executive summary
Code of ethics is one of the most important tools that must be used by all the organizations for
their successful operation in the industry. A company has to abide by the rules and regulations as
that they can work in the best interest of their clients. APM Company tries to provide service to
the poor, old and the disabled people of Australia and other parts of the organization. However
there are charges against them that they have been engaging in some unethical activities by ill
treating their customers. They are accused of charging heavy sum of money for the insurance of
dead clients and also harassing customers with the request of bringing some unnecessary
documents. Thus they have to work over their decision making systems and make sure that they
are being able to overcome these issues.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Discussion........................................................................................................................................5
Unethical activities.......................................................................................................................5
Utilitarian theory..........................................................................................................................6
Theory of virtue ethics.................................................................................................................6
Strategies to be taken by the company............................................................................................7
 Identify Alternatives.............................................................................................................7
 Take Action..........................................................................................................................7
 Gather Information...............................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
Recommendations............................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
Decision making is one of the most important aspects of an organizational setup. It is the
responsibility of the leaders and the managers to make sure that they are using all the proper
decision making tools and taking the apt decision without any loss of valuable time. APM is one
of the very well known companies in Australia that mainly tries to provide a proper disability
service to all the disabled and unemployed people of Australia and also different other parts of
the organization. However there have been several unethical issues taking place in the
organization due to the different kinds of negative incidents that have taken place in the recent
years. Dancekert (2018) has stated that the organization mainly aims at providing moral,
financial and also insurance services to the disabled people. They have been doing a good and
commendable work by providing best services. However Madary and Metzinger (2016) have
argued in the same context that there have been several unethical activities in the organization.
This research has mainly dealt with the issue covered by Sydney Morning Herald. This issue
mainly talks about the huge amount of money that was charged by The APM Company over the
life insurance of dead people (Lefkowitz, 2017). As per the opinion of the company they have
only charged a minimum amount of money or a minimum amount of time so that they can keep
it as an asset during the time span through which it is being processed. However their practices
have really been unlawful as they have refused many of their customers due to their
inconvenience of the causes for asking for the insurances.