Responsible Management and Leadership in a Global Economy

This report discusses the importance of responsible management and leadership in creating a positive environment in organizations. It analyzes the ethical issues arising in an international charity concerned with disaster relief and provides insights into stakeholder theory, duties of charity towards employees and volunteers, and the roles of trustees. The report also highlights the actions that can be taken to address these issues.

Responsible
management and
leadership in a
global economy

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.......................................................................................................................................3
Analysis of the ethical issues arising in the organisation................................................................3
Stakeholder theory...........................................................................................................................3
Duties of charity towards its employees and volunteers.................................................................4
Roles and responsibilities of the trustees........................................................................................4
Blow the Whistle.............................................................................................................................4
compare and contrast the approach of Bentham and Mill...............................................................5
Deontologist....................................................................................................................................5
Mark is employing neither an 'ethic of justice' nor an 'ethic of care'..............................................5
The reason of Lucy's compromise .................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES....................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Responsible management and leadership are essential for developing positive environment
in the organisation. Responsible leadership can be described as the best management of company's
interaction with employees, workers and society. Its major aim is to concern about various
stakeholders and also contributing to the social, environmental and economic performances.
Responsible management and leadership are important to decrease complexity and dynamic
situation in daily business. As per the case study, Lucy is appointed as public relations executive of
an international charity concerned with disaster relief, GOHELP. One of the volunteer is claiming
that she was sexually abused by the manager of the charity shop. This report will include the
analysis of the ethical issues and what Lucy might do. This report will also highlight the
stakeholder theory including primary and secondary stakeholders and the duties of charity towards
the its volunteers and employees and the roles and responsibilities of the trustees. This report will
also highligh the essential actions that should be taken by Lucy.
MAIN BODY
Analysis of the ethical issues arising in the organisation
The major ethical issue arising in the charity is the sexual abuse and harassment. Sexual
violence at the workplace is a major issues in the charity organisation. The sexual violence created
a fearful environment in the organisation. Sexual abuse is a sexual act or sexual behaviour upon a
woman without their consent (Parkes, Buono and Howaidy., 2017). It involves abuse of women,
child or men by a woman, man or child. The international charity concerned with disaster relief,
GOHELP faced sexual abuse at their workplace. It is behaviour of violence with the women
employees at the workplace. The organisation faces ethical issues such as sexual harassment of
women and includes various activities such as demand for sexual favours, showing pornography,
physical advances and contact, creating sexually coloured remark. In the Charity organisation,
rising many unwelcome verbal, physical conduct of sexual activities. It is most major ethical issues
in the organisation that volunteers encounter on regularly.
As a public relations executive, Lucy might take various actions against the sexual abuse at
the work place. The public relations executive has power to develop anti-sexual abasement policies
in their organisation. The Lucy should have to complained against the defaulters. They should not
have to so much concern about the bad publicity and reputation of the organisation.
Stakeholder theory
Stakeholder theory is a theory of business ethics and organisational management that account for
various tasks and operational of the business entity such as employees, managers, executives,
workers and others (Sroufe and et.al., 2015). It created a link and interconnections between the
business and its employees, workers, communities, members, customers, suppliers, investors etc.
As per the case study, the primary stakeholder in the Charity is the Mark and the secondary
stakeholder in the Lucy, manager, volunteers and field workers.
Dilemma is a situation in which person get confused between two alternative situation to
find out the which situation is preferable or acceptable. Mark is a CEO in the Charity organisation.
In this dilemma, Mark has major role in this. Mark should have to take necessary actions to identify
the exact situation of the allegation that are facing by organisation. They have main interest in this
dilemma. Lucy is also involved in this Dilemma because she knows all the sexual abuse activities
of the manager of the shop and the allegations on the organisation's field workers for sexual
activities. The shop manager also involve in this, because the allegations are are suited on them.
The 16 year old volunteer also indulged in it because all the allegations are surrounded them. All

the stakeholder in the charity organisation have an interest in this dilemma (Lam., 2017).
Duties of charity towards its employees and volunteers
The main duty of the charity towards its employees and volunteers at the workplace. The
employer must have to take necessary actions to prevent sexual abuse from their organisation.
Charity are responsible for offering their employees or volunteers a best work environment that is
free from sexual abuse and harassment. Charity organisation required by law to take effective steps
to deal with sexual abuse in the workplace. If the employer or charity has not taken essential steps
to prevent sexual abuse in the organisation, they become liable for any sexual abuse activity even if
they are unaware about it. United Kingdom has a effective and well articulated standard of
organisational liability for sexual abuse committed by any stakeholder at the workplace. Most
successful plans and strategies on sexual abuse should have to implement by the charity in their
organisation (Crichton, Walker and Patel., 2018). It is necessary for the better environment at
workplace. The charity must have to establish a anti-sexual abuse policies to prevent the employees
or volunteers from the sexual abuse at the workplace. They should have to organize a anti-sexual
abuse training for all employees, workers or volunteers which will help in preventing sexual abuse
and support people who are being abused to come forward, it also ensure the individual that the
issues are addressed effectively and quickly. There are many actions that charity can take to create a
sexual abuse free workplace such as: create a policies to elaborate that this is a organisation where
sexual abuse will not be ignored or tolerated. They must have to provide information and education
about the sexual abuse to all employees or volunteers regularly. The effective guidance, circulation
of information and open communication is essential to prevent sexual abuse or harassment. The
charity should have to ensure that all the supervisors and managers understand and know their
responsibilities to develop harassment free environment (Fleming, Millar and Culpin., 2018). They
should have to investigate all complaints of sexual abuse at workplace.
Roles and responsibilities of the trustees
The main the role and responsibility of the trustee of charity organisation is to review the
employees and volunteers performance and operations towards the organisation and also focus on
the managers and leaders activities. They should have to openly discuss sexual abuse activities and
implement policies accordingly. If in the charity organisation, any sexual abuse activity is
conducted than trustee should have to take necessary actions against the accused person. The
trustees of the organisation develop policy and organize training accordingly (Osland and et.al.,
2018). They also take proper actions to develop professionalism at the workplace to eliminate
harassment activities. Charity's Trustees has an responsibility to provide better environment to the
employees or volunteers.
As per the case study, Mark also liable to conduct all these activities to prevent sexual abuse
from their charity organisation. They also had an responsibility to provide harassment free
environment to their employees or volunteers (Nowrouzi-Kia and et al., 2019).
Blow the Whistle
According to the case study, Lucy met the Mark, he is a CEO of the charity organisation.
Mark tells her all the sexual abuse activities that was conducted at the shop of charity. So that, we
can say that Lucy has all information regarding the sexual abuse activities that was conducted at the
charity organisation (Boyle and Wallis., 2016). Lucy should have to tell the truth as per the 'blow
the whistle' policy of the organisations. The whistle blower is a person who know that the illegal
activities are conducting in their organisation. Lucy should have to blow the whistle to alert the
employees or volunteers in the organisation. Whistle blowing is a effective process in the
organisation to telling the employer or authorities that the managers or any other person in the
organisation is doing something illegal and immoral. It is also provide an information that the

individual or group of individual are creating ethical issues at the workplace.
In this scenario, the whistle blowing is required in the situation when Know the actual
situation and information about the sexual abuse (Alkorashy and Al Moalad., 2016). Whistle-
blowing is a powerful tool in the organisation, which can generate a fear in accused mind and heart.
It is a best factors to stop the illegal and immoral activities at the workplace.
compare and contrast the approach of Bentham and Mill
The Mark is working from a Utilitarian perspective of the greatest good for the greatest
number. This can create major issues because by this approach the actual truth can not be
recognized and made rules also reflect as a ineffective. The Mill considered quality and quantity of
pleasure but the Bentham only considered the quantity of pleasure.
The theory of the Bentham was act utilitarianism and the the theory of Mill was
Utilitarianism rule. The theory of the Bentham complied the rules of utility to individual situations
and acts directly. As per this theory, we can say that the Bentham allows that the some abhorrent
acts. But the Mill theory denied this, they says that rules of utility should be applied to define the
moral rules that govern utility (Cheung and Yip., 2017).
Deontologist
Deontological theory is a ethical theory of the moral actions that described that the morality
of actions must be dependent on whether the action right or wrong as per the rules and policies,
rather than dependency on the outcomes of the action. According to the case study, Mark tells the
Lucy about the all sexual abuse and harassment activities in the organisation but also develop a fear
in their mind about the bad publicity.
The deontologist believes that the every organisation should have to create a rules to
differentiate between the right act or wrong act. It is a best ethical theory to create a harassment free
environment at workplace. The charity organisation must have to take ethical actions by following
universal moral laws i.e. Don't lie. Mark must have to follow the Deontolocal theory in their
organisation to prevent or stop sexual abuse. This theory suggests that the specific act are bad or
good as per the effective set of rules. The actions which are obey this policies or rules are ethical
and which are don't follow this rule are unethical.
As a CEO, The Mark should have to apply the deontological theory to identify that the
managers actions or acts are good or bad. This theory also helps the organisation by providing
effective guidelines to know the actual consequences from the individual's actions. It also assist to
identify the manager who conducted sexual abuse in the workplace are defaulter or not.
Mark is employing neither an 'ethic of justice' nor an 'ethic of care'
In the one of the shop of international charity concerned with disaster relief, GOHELP, a 16
year old volunteer was abused sexually by the manager of the shop and some of the field workers
of the shop indulging in the sex activities with young girls. All these activities created a shameless
and negative environment in the workplace (Stone and et al., 2015). But the CEO Mark not take
any action against them and also created a fear in the person who wants to take actions against
them. So, we can say that Mark is employing neither an ethic of justice nor an ethic of care.
As per the business law and industry law, every organisation should have to make various
rule an d policies to protect their employees or volunteers from any diverse activities in the
workplace. Mark avoided all these rules and policies and ignored the issues that emerged from the
ethical issues. The employees or volunteers of the charity organisation suffered from sexual abuse
and harassment activities. Ethics of justice means the effective effective rules and regulations in the
organisation that that punish the accused person. Justice is an important ethical principle that

provide fair treatment to person who suffered from immoral or illegal activities. The ethics of
justice also include the equality, equitable and fair treatment. The Mark should have to include a
ethics of care in their rules and polices. The ethics of care involves the moral action and care for
employees or workers in the workplace.
The reason of Lucy's compromise
The Mark tells the Lucy about all activities such as Sexual abuse and harassment in their
first meeting. Lucy was new in the organisation when she identified these acts (da Conceição
Figueiredo, Suleman and do Carmo Botelho., 2018). The Mark also created a fear in the Lucy's
mind about the bad publicity and reputation.
The Lucy wants to take actions against the accused persons but the Mark was asked to
ignore this. The main reason of the Lucy's compromise is the fear of loose job, fear of their
reputation and also the bas publicity.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it is concluded that the every corporate sector must have to adopt a
rules and policies of the sexual abuse and harassment activities. The organisation should have to
take necessary actions to prevent these activities for developing positive environment in the
workplace. It is also essential for the charity organisation to create strategies for eliminate ethical
issues. Company should have to apply ethic of justice and ethic of care policies in their workplace
to ensure the employees or workers about their protection and safety.

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