Article Summary: Creativity, Innovation and Ethics in Business

This report summarizes an article that explores the ethical implications of fostering creativity and innovation within organizations. The article, by Baucus et al. (2008), focuses on four behaviors: standard operational procedures and breaking rules, avoiding tradition and challenging authority, generating stress, conflict, and competition, and risk-taking. It highlights the ethical dilemmas that can arise from these behaviors and emphasizes the need for organizations to address these issues. The authors suggest that these behaviors, when coupled with ethical considerations, can enhance creativity and innovation. The article also discusses the impact of the international economy and how organizations can respond to ethical challenges based on their ethical theories and practices. The summary concludes by evaluating the ethical implications of the four behaviors, providing insights into how to balance innovation with ethical conduct.

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According to Baucus et al. (2008), it was found out that the suggestions provided in many
literature to boost up creativity and innovation in various organizations often lead to ethical
dilemmas. In this article, four different kinds of behavior was focused on which enhance
creativity and innovation in organizations. The identified behaviors are: standards operational
procedures and breaking rules; avoiding tradition and challenging authority; generating stress,
conflict and competition; and risk taking. The article has put utmost effort in highlighting the
behavior to enhance creativity by considering the ethical issues of the organization.
It was further countered that the four behavior in association with the ethical issues need
to be implemented in the organization for fostering creativity and innovation. The authors have
stated that the issues are mostly faced because of international economy. In previous instances,
creativity and innovation has proved to find solution to different problems faced by the
organizations. Therefore, the organizations were suggested to respond to the ethical issues based
on their original theories and practices of organizational ethics. The article is summed up by
experientially evaluating the ethical implications of four kinds of behavior that is present within
the organization (Baucus et al. 2008).

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Baucus, Melissa S., William I. Norton, David A. Baucus, and Sherrie E. Human. "Fostering
creativity and innovation without encouraging unethical behavior." Journal of Business Ethics81,
no. 1 (2008): 97-115.