Organizational Ethics: Research Findings and Strategies Summary

This report summarizes the importance of ethics in organizations, highlighting the consequences of failing to prioritize ethical conduct and the benefits of implementing strong ethical frameworks. It identifies three key steps to strengthen organizational ethics: establishing clear codes of conduct, acknowledging the true costs of ethical failures, and encouraging open communication. The report also discusses barriers that hinder ethical implementation and emphasizes the need for proactive measures to ensure organizational success and development. It reviews strategies for understanding ethical fallacies and overcoming institutional obstacles, drawing on research findings to support its recommendations. The summary underscores the significance of ethical leadership and the role of ethical practices in fostering a positive and productive work environment. The research emphasizes the importance of codes of conduct, respecting true costs and encouraging to speak up, listen and act carefully.

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Summary
The research presents the importance of ethics in organizations. There are several organizations
that fail to recognize the importance of ethics. There are several steps that strengthens the ethics
in organizations which are discussed in the research. At the same time, when the steps are carried
out in order to strengthen the ethics in organization, there are several barriers that makes it hard
to achieve the ethics. Thereby, effective actions and steps should be taken for organization’s
success and development. The article reviews important strategies that gain effective knowledge
about ethical fallacies and institutional barriers in an organization.
Three steps of organizational ethics
There are specific steps that involve in change management and creates change in an
organization are discussed. It is important that the companies should focus on the three steps that
help to change and create change in an organization. The first is to keep codes in context. In this
case, organization should have specific codes that ensure and highlights the understanding of
faith and clear prohibitions of conduct (Pope, 2015). Codes are basically important as it helps to
ensure that there are certain standards in the organization that every individual need to follow.
The investigation of the findings in terms of code of conduct is important as it illustrates the
organizational code that is important for an organization to cross-examine the strategies of
employees and lead to innovation and integrity of organization. There is a meta-analysis study
that ensures that there are several ethical standards such as respect and honesty that would create
a good culture in an organization. Thereby, it is vital to work and create a code of conduct.
The next step is respect the true costs. When it comes to working on ethics, it is important to
believe that none is true and perfect. There are ethical spins that are focuses on the study and are
the risky moments for an organization to work on an mask the unethical acts that the
organization is conducting till date (Weaver, 2014). The costs of betrayal is analyzed and worked
for the deciding the honesty, integrity and company’s faith is to be given. There are life altering
changes that are important and are mentioned in the organizational dynamics and support while
fixing the design and the cost of betraying the ethics.
The third step is encourage to speak up, listen and act carefully. There is a belief that speaking to
managers would not achieve any success, while this is comparatively incorrect. The major

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concern is to speak up and opine with the decisions that are made by the senior management. it is
thereby vital to connect the ethics in speaking up and listening carefully what managers need to
speak and acting with the fair sense of responsibility and authority. Speaking up and addressing
change is the require ethic that ensures organizational and personal development.

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References
Pope, K., (2015). Steps to Strengthen Ethics in Organizations: Research Findings, Ethics
Placebos, and What Works, Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 16:2, 139-152, DOI:
10.1080/15299732.2015.995021
Weaver, G. R. (2014). Encouraging ethics in organizations: A review of some key research
findings. American Criminal Law Review, 51, 293–317