Arden University: Values, Ethics and Working Collaboratively Portfolio

This portfolio explores the critical aspects of values, ethics, and collaborative working within a business context. The introduction emphasizes the significance of ethical considerations in business operations, highlighting their impact on results. The main body is structured into three tasks. Task 1 defines ethics, explores factors influencing ethics (legislation, government regulations, company ethics, social pressures, and personal codes), and discusses the importance of workplace ethics, using Facebook's data scandal as a case study, and also detailing the regulations like REGULATION (EC) NO 1333/2008 and Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002. Task 2 examines corporate social responsibility using Starbucks as an example, addressing obligations to society, the issues and the 5 rules of public and client, and legal rights related to GDPR (Right to inform, access, rectification, restrict processing and accuracy). Task 3 highlights the importance of teamwork and collaborative working. The conclusion summarizes the key points, and a reference list is included.

VALUES ETHICS AND
WORKING
COLABORATIVELY
PORTOFOLIO OF TASKS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
TASK-1............................................................................................................................................3
A) The terms and factors that are influenced by the ethics.........................................................3
B) the importance of ethics in the workplace .............................................................................4
C) Two ethical practices..............................................................................................................4
TASK-2............................................................................................................................................5
A)concept falls and obligations of the society............................................................................5
B) Issues and the 5 rules of public and client..............................................................................6
C) legal rights in relation to GDPR.............................................................................................7
TASK-3............................................................................................................................................8
Explaining the importance of teamwork and collaborative working .........................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Value ethics are very crucial for the working of the business and every business works on the
value ethics to improve the result in the business. It is crucial for the business to follow the
ethical consideration and also develop the process of increasing result. The report will explain
the ethical practices of the working in the UK and the report further will explain cause and effect
of the essay in this. Further the report will explain the GDPR changes in the act which can be
used in the workplace and organization.
MAIN BODY
TASK-1
A) The terms and factors that are influenced
by the ethics
Ethics is termed as the branch of philosophy
which is used to seek and addressing the
issues that are related to the concepts which
includes both right and wrong. On the other
hand they are also known as the moral
theory that are focused on the factor that are
related to how the moral values are
determined and along with this what are the
things that will make them right and wrong
and for that what will be done to solve that
ethics (Reynolds and Dang, 2017). Ethics is
also the code of conduct that was set by the
business in knowing the principles at the
time of performing tasks.
The factors that are influenced by the
business ethics are:
Personal code of ethics: This factor are
influenced by the business in the form of
morale and behaviours.
Legislation: It is influenced by enact and
government laws at the time when the
business becomes selfish and start ignoring
their responsibility that are done towards
their society. As no society in the world can
tolerate the misbehaviour that are
continuously (Shilton, 2018).
Government rules and regulations: In
ethics they have to follow different
regulation to support laws that are related to
the product safety, statutory warming and
working conditions etc.
Ethical code of company: at the time when
the company starts growing they have to
follow different standards that are related to
the trends to rise. The unethical behaviours
of the company will put the reputation,
public image and good will in danger and
will also result in bad.
Social pressures: this are the important
factors that influenced the ethics in the
business if the company will involve or will

perform the activity to conduct unethical
then the consumers of the company will be
indifferent from the organisation.
B) Importance of ethics in the workplace
In the workplace ethics play an important
role that is:
Protect fundamental rights: when the
workers of the company think about the
workplace ethics first thing in their mind set
is protection that is related to the illegal
activity and immoral behaviour in the jobs.
On the other hand it also provides the rules
and regulations that are regarding the human
rights that are performed in the office.
Countries like UL have faced the issues that
are regarding the age, gender and disability.
Protects company assets: Workplace ethics
helps the organisation to protect their
company from the false documents and
thefts. It protects the assets of the company
in manner of employee contribution and
treating their employees in respect, fairly
and dignity manner. Employees who are
hard-working and are proud for the things
that are performed by them they know what
are the benefits of the ethics in the
workplace.
The biggest scandal was faced by Facebook
in the year 2018 that the company was
sharing the data of the individuals without
their permission to the other company and
have not kept the privacy protections and
moderation which have resulted the profits
of the company in bad manner. The
information of the around 87 million users
who were using Facebook worldwide.
Positive: the positive impact on the company
was by this scandal they have learned the
several things that is they cannot share the
important and privacy information of the
individuals without taking permission of
them.
Negative: At the time of scandal the
company have faced various problems that
are related to they have started facing lose as
the individuals and people who were using
the Facebook have deactivated their
accounts along with they have stopped using
the Apps. By this scandal the reputation of
the company have resulted in damaging in
the bad manner.
C) Two ethical practices
REGULATION (EC) NO 1333/2008 : -
This act is made in the UK to
promote the ethical standards as the laws are
made so that the company follow the issues
the organization is making for their
workplace. The law provides that the
organization need to produce the product
and services according to the situation of the
guidelines they need to follow. They need to
provide the information about what is kept

in the product and what they are feeding to
the children in through the product feeding.
This is crucial for the Tesco to make sure
the product and services they are offering to
the customer need to be developed in
increase of working and also in increase of
providing the proper formula based which
does not harm the children in their health
issues. The company need to make sure that
they are developing strategy to increase
performance and follow the guidelines of the
government laws to make it better for the
children to consume.
Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 forced
retail transparency : -
The act provides the fundamental
regulation of the laws in the business so that
the company provide the best of the
transparency in the workplace. It is crucial
for the business to develop a process where
they are developing the information to the
audience and providing the transparency that
they are using the best of the quality and not
cheating the customer by any false mean.
This is made to develop the trust in the laws
as the Tesco need to provide the best of the
details and the transparency in the
workplace and in their product. Utilizing the
regulation it helps the customer in getting
better understanding of the product and get
knowledge about the same. It is crucial for
the organization to develop a working in
making the transparency of the product
details to make the customer aware about
the product specification (Othman, and
et.al., 2018).
TASK-2
A)concept falls and obligations of the society
The concept of the Starbucks falls under the concept of Corporate social responsibility. It
is a self-regulating business model which help in increasing the social accountability, to
stakeholders, public and to itself. It is crucial for the business and develop a process of increased
towards the social responsibility of providing the shoes to the needy peoples a CSR project of the
business (Vidgen, Hindle and Randolph, 2020). There are several issues the company wants to
improve in the business, and they want to develop working till the 2025 as a working in
improved social factors. Company hire 25000 veterans to complete their task of providing the 60
million shoes to the needy people. It is essential for them to develop a process of increased social
responsibility of the society.

The obligation to society are the national interest. There are a lot of process where the company
want to increase in the process of developing the economy of the country. The company is
providing the change in the social platform as they are developing the management in the
workplace and also creating the change over the cause of development in national economy of
the country (Kar, 2018). There are different issues as the Corporate social responsibility need to
provide the best of the knowledge in development of business strategies to increase more to the
social cause they are working for. They are working to develop the initial social help to the
people.
B) Issues and the 5 rules of public and client
The issues are that the organization need to develop the working in the industry to make
sure they are having the good task to be made in achievement of the target they have set. It is
crucial for the business to develop a working in the business to increase the communication to
make sure that good communication will help them in making more of the audience attraction
and increased the process of development in the workplace. Communication is very crucial and it
is important for the organization to develop the communication and make proper plan to increase
the working of the business.
The five rules for the public and client are : -
Follow the rules: -
 Positive behaviour
It is crucial for them to behave positive among the organization and develop a working
culture to increase performance (Peng-song, 2019). They need to develop a working in increase
of positive behaviour.
 Leaves Information
They should be responsible enough to provide the best of the information to their team
member and others. It is important for them to develop a working of providing the information in
the business and increase the overall objective. They need to provide the leave information to
increase the following responsibility.
 Ethical behaviour.
They need to follow the ethnic behaviour as they need to develop the ethnic culture to
develop more of the information in the working on their project. The company need to follow the

ethical consideration and behaviour to develop working in the organization project and develop
the societal growth.
 Equality among all.
They need to develop the working of increased equality in the workplace and also
provide the information to develop the working in the business .
 Maintain confidentiality
Maintain confidentiality in the working so the organization can provide a better working
as the XSR are to make the best of the society and it is important for them to increase the
confidentiality to the workplace.
C) Legal rights in relation to GDPR
Right to inform:
It is important to provide the right to informed as there are several issuers the
organization can face, and they need to provide the information. They need to provide the GDPR
the right to information as it is crucial for them to develop the information and increase the
general protection regulation so that they can get the best out of the regulation practices and
increased the objective.
Right to access:
Right to access provide the information about the ways they can access the regulation
data and also increased the information in development of the skills. They need to access the
information so that they can provide the best of the CSR and also utilise the GDPR knowledge of
information.
Right to rectification:
GDPR provide the data protection regulation which help in increased the information
regulation and it is crucial that the information are being rectified if the error caused to them.
There are several issues which can come up with the same situation and it is important for them
to change according to the rectification. The right to rectification can change in the data which
the regulation can provide in the data regulation (Esser and Delport, 2017).
Right to restrict processing:
There are several conditions where the restriction came in the data of the regulation and it
s also to develop the process of GDPR in the process and the company need to follow the right to
restriction in the process so that they can develop a better working in the data regulation.

Accuracy: -
They need to develop the accuracy of data so that they can develop the use of the GDPR
in the process of development in the objective of the company to get the best use of the process
of increase in performance.
TASK-3
Explaining the importance of teamwork and collaborative working
A- What is the collaborative working?
It is the type of partnership working that includes different ways that are used by two or more
organisation so that they can work together. It covers different things that are related to the
alliances, joint delivery of the projects and covers the informal networks. It also involves the co-
operation that are performed between the departments, teams and organisation to achieve the
common goal and objective. Collaborative workings are performed for fixed period or permanent
arrangement (Hsu, 2017).
B-What are the strategies that are used for the collaborative working?
Collaborative working are very important for performing the activities in the workplace (Team
Collaboration Strategies Your Team Should Start Using Today.2021). The different strategies
are:
 Communicate anything: To work in collaborative working it is important to understand
the expectations otherwise it will result in failing the responsibility that are to be fulfilled.
 Organizing the individual tasks: It is not possible to all the tasks in the group it will
result in waste of time on the other hand in the collaborative working the tasks are to
given to the individuals so that they can create their own ideas and ways by giving the
suggestions.
C-what are the values that will guide?
The values of the collaborative working are related to boosting the morale across the
organisation. In collaborative all the individuals and the teams believe in power of working
together. On the other hand they also believe in service excellence that is related to going above
and beyond the expectations also they talk to their members in respectful and ethical manner
when they perform the activities (The Value of Collaboration.2019). It also helps in giving the
values in the mission and vision of the organisations that are performing the collaborative
working.

D-what are the interpersonal skills required for collaborative working?
The interpersonal skills that are required by the collaborative working are communication,
decision making, trust building, problem solving and conflict management are essential for
achieving the success by team efforts. On the other hand it also includes the skills that are long-
term thinking, adaptability, open-mindedness and organisation performance. By this skill the
work that are performed by the individuals and group of the people are performed in well manner
and with better performance (Brooks and Bell, 2017).
E-what are the benefits of the collaborative working?
The benefits of the collaborative writing are:
 It helps in solving all the problems
 It results in opening the new channel at the time of communication
 Collaborative leads to the high retention rates and also helps in bringing the people
together
 more productive at the time of meetings and discussions
 It makes the worker efficient at the time of working
 It also results in saving the time at the time of performing the tasks (Hong, 2017).
 Further it also improves the working atmosphere of the organisation
F-How the promotion will be done on the basis of diversity and equality in workplace?
To promote the diversity and equality in the workplace it includes various things that are:
 Need higher ranking employees that are actively involved: In the companies there are the
teams which are made of the diversity and equality that are arranged by the employees.
To perform in the Collaborative working the senior of the organisation come and engage
with the wider workforce.
 Finding the unconscious biases: to promote the equality and diversity in the organisation
their must no bias on the basis of Age, race, gender, disability and gender.
 Encouraging the employees to celebrate the holidays and religions events: to promote
them it is the duty of the top level management to engage the employees at the time of
celebration of the holidays and events that are regarding the religious events. In the
diverse workforce it is the duty of the company to encourage their employees to take the
part in celebrations. For examples Christian wants to celebrate Christmas and Hindu want
to celebrate the Holi (Muller and Liao, 2017).

G-How are the values of the British embedded into the collaborative working?
British values are important at the time of performing the tasks and activities in the
organisation. As it helps the employees to show the mutual respect and the tolerance by different
beliefs. This values are also shared by the people of the countries to create the society on the
other hand it is also related to the individual who feel safe, contributed and valued at the time of
performing the objectives for themselves and the organisations. The values are embedded to the
collaborative writing as the democracy about the rule of laws, mutual respect, tolerance and
individual liberty for the members who have different beliefs and faith (McDougall, 2019).
H-What are the different type of consequences for poor collaborative working?
Different barriers that are faced at the time of Collaborative working are:
 Lack of respect and trust: For the successful collaborative working the relationships
requires effectively mutual trust and respect. Sometimes it results in barriers of the work
as people are different from other in terms of age. Sadly, racial discrimination and
genders that are based upon the technology company (Batavia, Bruskotter and Nelson,
2020).
 Different mindsets: In the collaborative working the employees of the company have
different mindsets regarding the diversity of the viewpoint. In the company the members
have different perspectives and dimensions at the time of solving the problem by coming
up with the new and innovative solution.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be concluded that there are several issues the company can face
and the issues of the GDPR changes can impact on the working of the CSR project of the
business. The report have also explained the importance of teamwork and collaborative working
along with this there are different factors of increased performance in the business for which they
need to provide the crucial change in the GDP to impact the legal rights which can impact on
business.

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