Examining Corporate Culture's Influence on Moral Behavior and Ethics

This essay delves into the intricate relationship between corporate culture and moral behavior within organizations. It examines how perception and decision-making processes, influenced by the organizational environment, affect employee behavior and ethical considerations. The essay further explores the role of employee motivation, leadership styles, and group dynamics in shaping the overall culture and its impact on moral conduct. It addresses concerns such as workplace harassment, gender balance, and communication effectiveness, highlighting how these factors contribute to either a positive or negative organizational culture. Ultimately, the essay underscores the importance of establishing a strong corporate culture that fosters ethical behavior, job satisfaction, and overall organizational success.

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Perception and Decision Making
Decision-making is among the critical skills in an organization which seeks to reach its
goals as the excellence of organizations involves the accurate making of its decisions.
Consequences from decisions made can either break or build a company, and perception plays an
integral role in the making of decisions. According to Wei and Chen (2012 p. 75) the makers of
decisions should often use perception for the creation, evaluation, and choice of decision options,
for example, simultaneously establishing violence normality affecting the perception of
harassment victims to normality. The perception of a person towards other people can have a
great impact on the behavior of an organization, which is in turn affected by employee effort,
performance evaluations, ethnic profiling, performance expectations, and employment
interviews. New employees are faced with judgment from their coworkers, and the management
frequently evaluates the effort and performance of employees. Since ethnic profiling has been a
great concern for organizational human resources, organizational managers use perception and
decision making to combat the feelings of mistrust through the implementation of multicultural
training and diversity.
Employee Motivation
Employee motivation affects job performances and often leads to a high performance on
the job. Managers’ roles include getting the job done through proper management of the
employees, this to achieve the best outcome, the motivation of employees is crucial. Motivation
theory and practice are different, with some managers understanding the theory but facing
challenges in its practice. Managers should first strive to understand the nature of humans so as

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to be able to understand the best methods to use for the motivation of the employees to ensure
effective management and leadership (Sekiguchi, Burton & Sablynski 2008 p. 782).
Leadership
Leadership in an organization has various concerns. The inability of giving feedback to
conflicts, decisions and addressing to employees issues has become a global concern to
organizations. Furthermore, a leader that fails to maintain gender balanced in an organization
does not encourage and give opportunities for all subordinates to provide feedback hence
limiting their abilities for implementing a change. A leader should provide direction, train and
develop and therefore need to set an effective corporation culture, visions, and expectations of
the company. Lacking communication from a leader is another concern that leaves employees
stranded about decisions and demotivated when performing their daily tasks.
Organizational Culture
Organization culture influences the lifestyles of employees and other elements that make
an organization stand out internal and external collaborators. The culture of an organization may
result in workplace harassment and employees negative behaviors (Page & Pina 2015 p. 74).
Therefore, if the organizations develop a bad reputation and cultures are not satisfying it can
affect the job satisfaction of the employees.
Group Behavior
Group behavior in the workplace is created by employees with a common interest who
are feeling not satisfied with the way the organization conducts its operations. Furthermore,
harassments have been an influencing factor to employees and organization resulting to negative

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workforce behaviors. If the workplace behaviors are similar to harassments, the group behavior
in the organization may demand change. Therefore, workplace group behaviors may lead to low
performances, increased in absenteeism, high rates of turnover rates and the most skilled and
experienced staff may opt to quit the company (Claybourn 2011 p. 284)

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