MGT3003 Discussion Forum: Ethical Issues in Leading Organisations

This assignment presents a discussion forum response addressing ethical issues within leading organizations. The student explores the role of ethics and responsibility concerning employees, disruption, communication, and teamwork during organizational change. The response further examines steps leaders can take to solve ethical dilemmas, particularly in scenarios involving new managers and organizational restructuring. The assignment incorporates relevant references to support the arguments presented, providing a comprehensive analysis of ethical leadership principles and their practical application in a business context. The discussion covers topics such as fostering a fair work environment, addressing innovation-related disruptions, and promoting ethical communication and teamwork. The document concludes by emphasizing the general manager's role in upholding ethical standards and resolving conflicts within the organization.

Running Head: Ethical Issue in Leading Organisation
Ethical Issue in Leading Organisation
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Forum 1
Role of ethics and responsibility on the following aspects:
It is the role and responsibility of a business to administer the behavior of an
employee and decision may be taken by the Human resource department to establish the laws
and regulation that suits the social responsibility. By the establishment of the policies and
applying them on the employee, the administrator and the part time workers so that the
climate of the fairness in the work environment is maintained (Quarshie Salmi, and
Leuschner 2016).
Disruption, Communication and Teamwork.
Employees- in case of ethical rules for the employees it should be an overall statement for
all present in the working environment that includes respecting each and every candidate in
the working zone. This also includes the members present in the high authority like the co-
workers and the boss. The basic aim is to maintain the laws that should be maintained in the
professional life and to be honest with the people who come in contact for the use of
company’s resource (Glavas and Godwin 2013).
Disruption- in case of disruption for maintaining the ethical rules and responsibility the
issue needs to be addressed first.in situation of the innovation in the organisation a small
portion of donation is made for the purpose of inculcating new skills to the employee by
providing training sessions. It is the rule of the organisation to lead the employees into the
digital economy (Rhodes 2016).

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Communication and team work- the ethical communication builds up the relationship
between two employee who are discussing certain agendas, the communication for a leader
caters to dignifying the truthfulness, responsibility and personal integrity and the most
important of all is self- respect. The ethical communication in teamwork promotes climates of
caring and understanding of the mutual needs for individual communicators.

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Forum 2
What are the steps that leaders may take to solve an ethical dilemma?
As a general manager, a meeting has been conducted to welcome the new managers
along with the existing ones. The leaders can achieve ethical realignment as they have an
enormous impact on creating and sustaining a company’s ethical climate. It is important for a
leader to be equipped with the traits and is to be recognized as an ethical leader who is
respected by his or her followers. A leader who has the sense of ethical leadership knows
how to maintain respect for all the members or of the individual by listening to their opinion
and query attentively. It also matters for the leader to value the contribution of the employee,
it is important to be compassionate and being lenient with the viewpoint from one as well as
considering the viewpoint of the opposing one (Yukl et al. 2013).
Steps that leaders may take to solve an ethical dilemma are discussed below:
 The responsibility of the leader with the growing work and innovations in the market
space there should be the existence rules and regulation that should be surrounded
within the working space. The policies and the regulation should be equal to all the
employee including the members of the directorial post or the staff members.
 The legal obligations and duties should be recognized in the working environment. As
a view point of general manager the legal obligations and duties should be a
responsive factor for the manager to delegate the authority.
 The interested employee should be motivated to follow the rules and regulation and
make it a point that they facilitate the other members in the organisation to follow as
well.
 The decision regarding the policy and regulation should be discussed with the top
level of authority and the rules should be enforced.

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 The best option regarding the implementation of the policy should be made by the
leader so that there is no discrepancy among the members of the working team.
 It is the role of a leader to decide in case of legal and ethical issue and resolve the
conflict between the employees (Dettmer, Knackendoffel and Thurston 2013).
Hence it can be conclude that it is important for the general manager to take up the role of a
leader and be well aware of the laws that is functioning in the organisation.

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Reference
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Glavas, A. and Godwin, L.N., 2013. Is the perception of ‘goodness’ good enough? Exploring
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Rhodes, C., 2016. Democratic business ethics: Volkswagen’s emissions scandal and the
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Yukl, G., Mahsud, R., Hassan, S. and Prussia, G.E., 2013. An improved measure of ethical
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