Values, Ethics, Teamwork, and Collaboration: A Comprehensive Report

This report delves into the critical aspects of workplace ethics, values, and collaborative teamwork. It begins with an exploration of ethics, its importance, and ethical behavior in organizations. The report examines workplace ethics, UK laws promoting ethical conduct, and the concept of initiative, referencing examples like Starbucks and TOMS UK's CSR efforts. It also addresses the challenges faced by new employees, offering five essential rules for successful integration, and discusses legal rights related to GDPR. Furthermore, the report proposes a new code of conduct, emphasizes the importance of teamwork, and concludes with a discussion of its benefits, supported by references to relevant literature and online resources. The report highlights the significance of ethical practices, legal compliance, and collaborative efforts in fostering a productive and positive work environment.

Values, Ethics and
Working
Collaboratively

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1 Newspaper Article.............................................................................................................3
A) Explain what is meant by the term ‘ethics’............................................................................3
B) Discuss why workplace ethics are important in an organisation...........................................4
C) Discuss two laws in UK that promote good ethical practice.................................................5
TASK 2 Cause and Effect Essay.....................................................................................................6
A) Discuss the concept initiative.................................................................................................6
B) Explain the issues of new employees that are faced and mention 5 rules..............................6
C) Describe the legal rights people have in relation to GDPR...................................................7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
Create a new code of conduct, and a report to discuss the importance of teamwork and
working collaboratively..............................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................10
REFERNCES:................................................................................................................................11
Books and Journals:..................................................................................................................11
Online........................................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Ethics is the study of moral principles which involves defending, systematizing, and
recommending concepts of wrong and right behaviour. Ethics are the code of conduct that need
to be apply in the organisation so that they can take decision from the choice of right and wrong
(Van Riper and et. al., 2020). It is very important for an organisation because in every time they
have to choose from options, at that time they need to concentrate on their ethics so that they can
choose right. Values are same important as ethics in the organisation as it increase the value of
their name and goodwill. An organisation can achieve their goals and objectives with the help of
collaboratively working because it gives many benefits that are covered in the report.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1 Newspaper Article
A) Explain what is meant by the term
‘ethics’.
Ethics defined in diverse ways
Ethics is the branch of philosophy
that practised by a group and an individual
person. Ethics are the code of conduct and it
applies at all stages in the individual as well
as corporate life. It is very important for an
individual and organisation that they should
take a right step in order to become a
successful person and organisation. It
depends on their ethics as it assists in taking
a corrective action or measure. It is the set of
principles in which they guide organisation
in decision making process, policies and
programs. An ethical behaviour of
employees and leaders in organisation gives
many benefits such as they get higher
productivity and efficiency. They also assist
employees to work with integrity and
honesty (Garcia-Martin and et. al., 2017).
Ethical behaviour leads to meet the aim of
organisation with the help of adhering
policies and rules. It is identified that there
are many cases that build in organisation
which create ethical issues. It can be
understanding with the help of Google
scandal in which they violate labour laws
(Google violated US labor laws, 2020). 2
employees are fired because they are related
to the protests of employees but this is not
an ethical act. So that's why it is very
necessary for an organisation that they
should improve their ethical standards.
There are many factors which influence
ethics in the organisation.
Cultural issues in directly impact on
business ethics because employees work

from different culture. They have different
values and behaviour. It can be creating
issues and effect on business ethics. On
other hand, environment issues are
increasing day by day such as emission of
carbon gases, plastic usage, etc. Now
companies set that they have to attain
sustainability in the organisation. It is very
obvious that business perform activities that
directly impact on other species on earth
such as animals. But it is the duty or
organisation that they should practices in
order to reduce environmental issues.
Legislation is one of the factor that
effect ethics of organisation because it is
identified that government intervenes in the
business because they analyse that
organisations become very unethical. This
behaviour cannot tolerate by government so
that's why they have no options to prohibit
this type of behaviour (Régis and et. al.,
2017). Social pressure is another code of
conduct because companies provide not so
much good quality of products and that's
why it influences ethics. Companies use
societies' natural resources and that's why
they have to return back in the form of
quality products but it is found that they are
lacking in this activity. H&M use organic
material to produce their goods and services.
Other factors are government rules and
regulations, personal code of ethics, etc. It is
very important for organisation that they
should take care of their activities. In simple
words, they have to perform their activities
which are come in their ethical behaviour.
B) Discuss why workplace ethics are
important in an organisation.
Workplace ethics
Workplace ethics enhance integrity
between employees and build trust so that
they can achieve their targets. It is
identifying in the modern world that
workplace ethics are very important as it
assist in reduce scandals that nowadays large
organisation are facing. The existence of
scandals comes in the unethical behaviour of
organisation which may affect productivity
and efficiency of employees. If H&M
follows ethics then they did not face any
scandals. It can be better understand with the
help of example of H&M. H&M faced
allegations of unequal behaviour with their
employees as they were not provided fair
wages to the employees (Clerico and et. al.,
2019). They are failing to fulfil their pledge
in which they take an oath of living wage. It
is very necessary for an organisation that
they should perform all their activities in an
ethical manner so that they can face any
allegations. But it is found in H&M that they
were not giving equal or fair wages to their

factory workers (H&M accused of failing to
ensure fair wages, 2018). It directly effects
on their productivity and efficiency when
they got to know that they were not getting
fair wages. It is found in the survey that no
one worker was earning near in the living
wage that pledge by H&M. So that's why
workplace ethics plays a significant role in
the organisation.
Workplace ethics assist in making
the positive ambience in organisation. It is
very important for an organisation that they
should make sure about ethical behaviour as
it assist in increasing efficiency and
productivity (Ahn and Thomas, 2020).
Workplace ethics helps in achievement of
organisational objectives and goals
effectively. They also help in time
management that timely complete the work.
C) Discuss two laws in UK that promote
good ethical practice.
Important legislations of ethical practice
It is very necessary for an
organisation that they should take acre about
all ethical laws so that organisation can
provide ethical behaviour to the people. It is
analysed that there are number of rules and
regulations that they need to be follow if
organisation want to become a successful
business (Singer, 2021). The important laws
are employment law, health and safety, etc.
it is very necessary for and organisation that
they should follow these rules if they want
to get success and growth. To follow rules
and regulations are also a part of ethical
behaviour and practice. It assists in
achievement of goals and objectives.
HSBC is the multinational
investment bank in London, UK that always
make sure about all rules and regulation in
order to reducing ethical and legal issues. It
plays a crucial role in the market. It is very
important for an organisation that they
should know and apply employment laws
because they have many employees that
work for organisation (Terrasse, Gorin and
Sisti, 2019). They also have to follow health
and safety act i.e. made by HACCP in 2006.
It ensures the safety and health of employees
in the organisation. In addition to this, they
also need to follow Equality Act, 2010 in
which all activities are mentioned related to
the organisation which promotes equality in
the organisation. For the purpose of ethical
practice in organisation two important laws
of UK that should be apply by HSBC are
Equality Act, 2010 and Health and safety
act.
Two important laws are Equality
Act, 2010 and Health and Safety at Work
Act, 1974. Equality Act promotes equality in
the organisation (Locher and Bolander,

2019). Health and safety ensures employees' health in the organisation.

TASK 2 Cause and Effect Essay
A) Discuss the concept initiative.
According to the given scenario, it is identified that now organisations focuses on
fulfilling corporate social responsibility. As per the give scenario which is about Starbucks and
TOMS UK set their goals in respect of fulfilling social responsibility. They perform activities in
order to welfare of societies (Connor, Copland and Owen, 2018). TOMS UK donate pair of
shows and Starbucks tries to recruit 25000 veterans so that they can increase diversity and
equality in workplace. It is very necessary for an organisation that they should do something for
the welfare of society. It is identified that many companies take an initiative in order to get
sustainable growth. It is analysed that H&M perform various actions related to CSR activities
because they think that this is the duty of organisation. Society gives natural resources so that
organisation can do business with their resources. So that's why it is the duty of organisation that
they should perform an activity in order to return back. It can be done with providing quality
products to the customers, do not harm anyone and environment, etc. It is very important for an
organisation that they should take an initiative such as H&M did.
H&M is one of the organisations that comes under most environmentally responsible
players in the business environment (Gallego‐Alvarez, Rodríguez‐Domínguez and Martín
Vallejo, 2020). They always focusing on reducing the negative impact of industries on
environment. Their aim is sustainability in the organisation and that's why they increased
scrutiny. They take an initiative in which they set their aims in which they encourage customers
that they have to recycle old or unwanted garments. For that purpose, the also focuses on using
use of organics fibres and trying to reduce hazardous chemicals. They also focusing on
increasing protection towards worker's right. Water is very important element for environment
and that's why H&M give their full efforts to improve water conservation.
B) Explain the issues of new employees that are faced and mention 5 rules.
Recruitment and selection is the important function of organisation as it assists in
appointing best candidates. With the help of recruiting of new talented employees, organisation
can achieve their goals and objectives (Dove and et. al., 2017). But it is analysed that new
employees face many issues in the organisation as they have no knowledge about business
practices. It is analysed that every organisation has different values and ethics which creates
issues for new employees. It can arise due to different nature and behaviour of employees.

Sometimes it is identified that staff or personnel attitude cannot be accepted by new employee
and that's why they face issues. Issues and problems faced by new employees are working
environment, time management, discrimination, communication problems, performance issues,
lack of skills and knowledge.
It is very important for an organisation that they should provide a positive environment so
that new employees cannot face any hurdles. If still they face any issues, then they should focus
on taking a necessary corrective actions in order to deal with them. They have many alternatives
so that new employees can adjust in working environment such as providing proper training and
development program and motivate time to time (Spencer and Vencill, 2017). Another important
step that should be adopt by companies such as they should take a feedback from employees. It
assists in solving the issues of employees. It can be solving with the help of proper understanding
of rules in organisation. If an employee can understand 5 rules, then it reduce problems and
issues. Important 5 rules are mentioned below.
It is very obvious for employees that they should perform their duties with honesty and
integrity. It is not just expected by organisation but also it is the duty of employees. Employees
should be act like a positive and respectful attitude. That means they should not behave
unethically with other members of organisation. Employees should always be humble with
members and perform their jobs with acceptable standard. It is very necessary for an organisation
that their employees maintain good attendance in workplace. It is necessary for employees that
they should perform professionally even if they are not on duty. It reflects their personality and
behaviour which plays a significant role in organisation.
C) Describe the legal rights people have in relation to GDPR.
Day to day increase in technology also increase threats of forgery of data in organisation.
It is very important for an organisation that they should take an initiative so that they can reduce
the risk of security breach. It is analysed that security breach becomes a very important issues in
nowadays (Colon, 2020). Data privacy is very important in nowadays because everything is now
based on technology and there are many people who can breach laws such as hackers. They can
use their data for their personal purpose. It became very important for an individual that their
data should be protected in the company. For the purpose of data privacy, GDPR replaced Data
Protection Act, 1998. It is very important for an organisation that they should follow the
guidelines of GDPR. GDPR gives many rights to individual that they can take in the organisation

when they need. All rights of individual play a crucial role in the organisation. GDPR gives
many rights that are right to access, right to be informed, right to object, right to restrict data
processing, right to erasure, and right to rectify. These rights are very necessary for an individual
as it assist in protection of data.
In organisation staff should be known about rights of individual as they deal in daily
practice. These all rights make their employees happy as they feel that their information is
protected in the organisation. An individual can access data when they need and no other have a
right to access their data without permission. GDPR is important in organisation as it assist
employees that their data privacy cannot breach by any other person. A person can rectify their
data if they feel anything is missing or incomplete. If they feel that they are not required that
data, then they have an option of erase them. They also restrict any other person to misuse their
data. All these rights are beneficial for an individual.

TASK 3
Create a new code of conduct, and a report to discuss the importance of teamwork and working
collaboratively.
Collaborative working
Competition is rising day by day as every company is now focusing on their products and
strategy. H&M is the second largest global clothing retailer still they have a threat of competition
They have many competitors such as ZARA, Forever 21, etc. It is very necessary for an
organisation that they should accept competition but it is also very crucial that they have to find
out best strategies in order to deal with competition. It can be deal with the help of efficient
human resource who work together in the organisation. Their working decides the success and
growth of organisation in the marketplace (McAuliffe and et. al., 2017). It is analysed that
organisation can achieve their goals and objectives with the help of collaborative working. Their
working conditions decide employees' efficiency and productivity. Collaborative working refers
to the environment in which every person supports to other one so that they can achieve their
goals and objectives. It is identified that it forms informal meetings in which they share their
issues and problems that can be solve with collaborative working.
Benefits of collaborative working
There are many benefits of collaborative working which are mentioned below:
 It assists in making an effective team which has common goals that can be easily achieve.
It is very crucial for an organisation that they make a teamwork in which every person
has a common goal.
 In organisation it is very necessary for them that their employees understand their goals
and objectives (Selinske and et. al., 2019). Collaborative working helps people that they
can understand organisation goals. It effectively integrates the individual goals with
organisation goals.
 It improves efficiency of an individual and enhanced their performance.
 With the use of collaborative working an organisation can achieve their goals and
objectives very well and get a success in marketplace.
Apart from above benefits, it is very necessary for an organisation that they should use
strategies in order to encouraging collaborative working.

Strategies
Strategies plays a crucial role and are mentioned below:
 Organisation should focus on cultivating transparency and openness in the workplace so
that every employee know everything in the organisation.
 It is analysed that if organisation provides or offers positivity and rewards in front of
employees regarding collaborative working then they can get successful in their mission.
 They should be focus on preparing their employees in the organisation that they become
the part of team.
 Organisation should be inclusive that means they take suggestions from their employees
so that they can focus on encouraging collaboration.
Values
Above strategies helps in encouraging collaboration but values are plays a crucial role. If
employees have values that they should work together without any conflicts and with proper
coordination, then they will definitely enhance collaboration in workplace. With the help of good
values in organisation they can achieve their targets and goals effectively (Heinrich and et. al.,
2020).
Interpersonal skills
It can be become more effective if organisation has good interpersonal skills such as
communication, trust building skills, problem solving, conflict management and decision
making. All these interpersonal skills are required in making an effective collaboration in
workplace.
Equality and diversity
It is not just giving above benefits, it also assists in promoting equality and diversity in
workplace. Now organisations appoint different person without focusing on their religions,
traditions, etc. It creates diversity in organisation and their activities makes a good collaborative
working conditions.
British Values
In UK like the company of H&M, it is identified that companies should have to follow
British values in their organisation as they are very important. It is very crucial for an
organisation that they should focus on mainly four important values that are democracy, respect
& tolerance, rule of law and individual liberty. These all are need to be present in the

organisation. Democracy give freedom to employees that they can share their point of view.
Respect & tolerance gives every person right that they need respect in the organisation. Rule of
law concerned with all necessary important laws that should be follow by employees or members
of organisation. Individual liberty is related to the rights in the organisation that should be
understand by company.
Consequences of poor collaborative working
It is identifying that if H&M has not effective collaborative working they face many bad
consequences such as:
 Companies faces many issues such as they have not found creativity and innovation in
the organisation.
 It reduces learning opportunities of employees in organisation which increases their
efficiency.
 It effects on employees' morale and for that reason they are unable to perform in
confidence.
 Poor collaborative working makes a negative environment in H&M that reduces work
culture.
From the above discussion it is very important for an organisation that they should
improve their strategies so that they can improve their collaboration working. If they get
successful in improvement of collaboration, then they can achieve their objectives.
CONCLUSION
It is concluded from the above discussion that ethics, values and collaboration working is
very important in the organisation. With the help of ethics, values and collaborative working they
can achieve their objectives with sustainability. It is recommended to the organisation that they
should focus on developing strategies.

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