Values, Ethics and Collaborative Working - Business Development

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of values, ethics, and collaborative working in a business context. It begins by defining ethics and discussing factors that influence ethical behavior, with a focus on workplace ethics and the importance of ethical practices in organizations like Tesla and Facebook. The report examines relevant UK laws, including the Freedom of Information Act and the Data Protection Act, and their impact on ethical conduct. Furthermore, the report delves into corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices, using examples from Toms and Starbucks, and explores challenges faced by new employees regarding workplace rules and regulations. It highlights essential rules that consumers and the public expect, and addresses legal rights related to GDPR. Finally, the report discusses collaborative working, strategies for promoting it, associated values, interpersonal skills, benefits, and how to foster equality, diversity, and British values within a collaborative environment, including the consequences of poor collaborative working.

VALUES , ETHICS AND
WORKING
COLLABORATIVELY

TABLE OF CONTENTS
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
A) Describing ethics and factors that play role in influencing ethics.........................................3
B) Discussing importance of workplace ethics in the context of Tesla .....................................4
c) Discussing laws of UK that promote good ethical practices on Facebook.............................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................7
Main body........................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................9
A- Collaborative Working (CW)..............................................................................................10
B- Strategies that can be utilized for promoting CW................................................................10
C- values of collaborative working...........................................................................................10
D- What interpersonal skills are needed...................................................................................10
E- What are the benefits of collaborative working...................................................................11
F-How to promote equality and diversity in workplace............................................................11
G-How British values embedded into collaborative working...................................................12
H-What are the consequences poor collaborative working.......................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13
Books and Journals...................................................................................................................13

TASK 1
INTRODUCTION
Values & ethics refers to importance
of particular action that determines the
significance of different practices. It helps
organization to create environment where
workers fell valued for their unique skills
and attributes. The present case will explain
ethics along with its determinants.
Importance of ethics for effective
organizational practices & laws in UK
related to it will be included in current case
study. Current report will include the
elements that influence organizational
practices with rules that employees need to
comply in organization.
A) Describing ethics and factors that play
role in influencing ethics
The term explains standard
behaviour that is expected from person so
that positive outcome can be derived. In
addition to this an organization is formed
with different interest and background so
combing them to achieve desirable result
becomes important for firm. In corporate
decision-makings ethics & values plays
crucial for determining success there for
utilizing them in corrective pattern becomes
essential (Ferrell and et.al., 2019.). For this
purpose firm focus on corporate scandals
involves allegation of inappropriate
activities, more outrage of company.
With help of business ethics
organization becomes able to gain
trustworthiness among employees and
customers. There are several big companies
that have their own distinct values that
reflects their uniqueness. Google is the
largest search engine company in world that
follows different types of ethics that
constructs its working culture more
productive. It involves establishing healthy,
collaborative & enjoying working scenario
that motivates workers to give full potential
& optimizing skills, knowledge and
experience. The element that influence
ethics are as follows:
Government rules and regulations
The most important factor that
enterprise need to comply with such as
health & safety measures, statutory warning,
etc. Companies like Google focuses factors
that holds more value in influencing
business growth.
Ethical coding system of company
Corporate scandals increases with
rise in company scale as the reputation of

company depends on its way of operating
activities (Davani, 2020.). For this purpose
companies issues special guidelines is
expected from subordinates to follow.
Misleading practices that cross the limits
established by firm tens to results into
penalty, punishment or any legal action.
Moreover, enterprise pays more attention by
establishing special departments for
monitoring behaviour of workers that helps
in attainment of right working culture.
Social pressure
If organization is indulged into any
unethical practice that adversely affects its
targeted customer segment. This will tend
customer to switch to another substitute and
boy-cut the company. In order to avoid this,
firm makes policies & process that
employees have to adhere. Institutions takes
strict actions against subordinates that tend
to ignore these established formalized
structure on continuous basis.
B) Discussing importance of workplace
ethics in the context of Tesla
It is considered to be essential for
maintaining positive working culture so that
more productivity, sustainability and
profitability can be obtained. There several
corporate scandals have been established at
internationals well national level that need to
adhere for smooth functioning (Dierksmeier
and Seele, 2018). The reasons for which
workplace is important in organization
includes assets protection, team work
efficiency, enhance revenue & brand image,
non-resistance for changing circumstances,
enthusiast positives employees attitude, few
legal obligations and innovative decision-
making. Tesla is multi-national organization
that has gained good market share, customer
trust, creditworthiness, etc. These practices
help subordinate to participate actively for
company development along with fulfilling
their personal objectives. In addition to this,
it improves employees job satisfaction,
performance, commitment, trust, civic
virtue, conscientiousness, etc. In operational
activities if ethical decision-making process
is followed may result into discrimination
feeling among subordinates that can
adversely impact the behaviour of workers.
Negative Experience
For gaining good market position
company assures that it is following all laws
and regulation that can safeguard interest of
employees. There are several situations in
which Tesla need to make sure that human
right & labour law and health & safety is
followed. In recent time it has observed that
company failed to pursue these regulation
which result into bad ethical practices of
firm. In case of health security it failed to

provide equipment and required tools that
can safe workers. The injuries that happened
regarding this is approx 90% more than
industry rate. Non unionization environment
due to high injury rate, low pays scale,
inadequate morale gives outcome in less
productive employees. From such impact
NHS can take lesson and understand
significance of appropriate working scenario
which can enhance industry growth rate by
taking prior measures for tacking these
issues.
c) Discussing laws of UK that promote good
ethical practices on Facebook
In United Kingdom there exist duty
of confidentiality which makes ethical
practices implementation in business
organization. There are different types of
business that has varying laws and
regulations which require adhering by them
in order to have smooth functioning. The
laws issued by government of UK are as
follows:
Data protection Act and General data
Protection Regulation (2018)
The act is implemented by
government for the purpose of informing
organization that personal data can be
gathered. In addition to this, the information
collected should be used fairly, transparently
and lawfully. Using specifically and explicit
purposes, relevant to only what is needed for
carrying forward business transaction
(Trevino and Nelson, 2021). Facebook
ensures that data is securely stored,
encrypted, etc. the stronger protection is
given to demographic factors of clarinets of
Facebook. There are millions of people that
has presence on the Facebook platform. The
purpose for utilizing this is for contacting
with friends, family or for business
activities. The data involved in such
transaction are perceived to be very
confidential whose misuse can harm their
personal feeling or loss in terms of revenue.
Following guidelines issued by
general data protection regulation helps
company to gain trust of market. In current
period, Facebook has attained this
competitive advantage that has aid it to
obtained position of successful business
based platform.
Freedom of Information act (2000)
It provides right to public to access
the information held by authorities. It
comprises two ways in which data can be
used such as company can public certain
part of information and public can also
request them to provide certain data required
(Vidgen, Hindle and Randolph, 2020).
Facebook effectively comply with this
regulation made by government of UK

(What is freedom information act, 2021). It
provides assistance in information access,
grater people alertness, increased authority
efficiency in responding, etc. with respect to
this, the limits that organization publish data
can be known.
CONCLUSION
From the Task 1 it can be concluded
that working ethics contributes in significant
manner. The factors that affect the ethics
determinants which has been included in
report are social pressure, ethical coding
structure and government regulations. In
addition to this, the ethics are important for
providing job satisfaction, enhancing
efficiency, brand value and revenue of
Tesla. Current case study has given
emphasis on freedom of information & data
protection act in context of Facebook.

TASK 2
INTRODUCTION
In the world of business, each
company take initiative to provide valuable
benefits to local people, they attempt to
conduct ethical business practices, which is
quite beneficial for success of business. The
current study will explain CSR practices of
Toms and Starbucks and will also define
problems face by person when they work as
new employee and do not know which rules
apply to practice. Furthermore, this task will
justify 5 rules that consumers and public
expect in the context of applicant and legal
rights that people have in relation to GDPR.
Main body
Discussing what initiatives that
companies take falls under
Initiatives that TOMS and Starbucks
took are falls under the category of
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR),
which provides varied benefits to
companies, consumers and local people as
well. It is one of those business models that
help a company to take better decision in
regard to human, environment and economic
well-fare (Ou, Wong and Huang, 2021). In
term of obligations, many firms take action
to make world better. For example,
Starbucks is included in category of leading
coffee brands in the whole world. It takes
initiative to conduct CSR practices and
perform their responsibilities in the context
of society by investing in ways to offer
employment opportunities and education as
well, to those people who are unable to get
better job because of lack of education.
Organization seek to build an effective
workforce in which varied people belong to
different religious, culture and values may
work together, which define diversity at its
workplace. In order to achieve this aim, it
attempts to hire maximum number of people
as an employee. It has committed to recruit
more than 25,000 veterans by 2025.
Just like this company, there are
many more available in the corporate world
that are playing vital role by conducting
their practices and taking actions related to
social well-being. For example, TESCO,
Costa, and companies that are operating in
other sector.
Explaining issues and 5 rules public and
consumers expect from workers in
company-
When a person starts their work for
an organization such as Costa and does not
have any kind of knowledge about those
rules that apply to their practice as a worker,
may bring many challenges or issues for

them (Mogaramedi, Nel and Marnewick,
2020).
Issue relate to achieve task-
Without understanding and getting
information about rules apply at workplace
related to employees practice in company,
no one can work appropriately and
productively. They may face issue to
achieve task, aim and objective which other
attempts to achieve. Lack of comprehension
related to workplace rules and policies
always bring issues, for a new employee that
attempt so hard to perform their role in firm.
Problem for effective collaboration and
communication-
Just like above issue, when a person
do not know which rule apply to their
practice as an candidate in firm, it brings
problem for them in term of conducting
effective collaboration as they enable to
support other people to complete their work.
Furthermore, just because of this reason, a
new applicant may not be able to
communicate effectively at workplace,
which is quite essential for task
achievements.
Problem to work on time-
There are many rules has created in
companies related to staffs member
performances, which is important for
everyone to understand (Trougakos, Chawla
and McCarthy, 2020). Lack of
understanding regarding those rules, made
new worker unable to attempts and complete
work on time, which also affect their further
activities related to personal or professional
life.
5 Rules-
Consumers and public aspect that their
personal data may keep at safe place-
According to this, rule an applicant
may secure and protect personal information
about customers and other people, which
each individual expect from workers who
work in TESCO. It helps to build
trustworthy relationship between both of
them. An employee may do so my setting
strong password on those applications or
software's where personal data is saved.
People aspect to get better services-
Everyone in the whole world expect
to get better product and service. An
employee accordant to this rule may serve
what its target customer prefer to buy, which
in return increase consumer satisfactory
level and sales of company that is important
to maximize.
Individual consumer and public expect to
get accurate information-
This rule help applicants to fulfil the
expectations of consumers and local people

who are living around the place where
venture is established. It drives the attention
of an employee towards providing
appropriate information to consumers about
products or services, which made an buyer
able to take decision in the context of goods
purchase.
Treat consumer appropriately-
this rule is also included in category
of above, which drive attention and attempts
of workers towards making consumers
happy as they expect good treatment without
dealing with any issue related to
discrimination.
C) Discussing legal rights people have in
relation to GDPR
General data protection regulation
(GDPR) is regulation in European Union
law formed related to data protection and
data privacy in EU. It gives individual
person many rights which they may use to
get benefits. For example, GDPR give right
to consumers or workers about asking
questions to company about deleting their
personal data (Mougdir, 2020). It gives more
rights to each person which they have and
use according to situation. For instance,
GDPR give right to access, to rectification
and erasure. General data protection
regulation give right to have right to restrict
or block processing of personal information,
in varied situations such as where individual
contests accuracy of personal data, about
other, they have right to stop them.
CONCLUSION
By summing up above analysis, it
has been concluded that both companies are
taking initiatives to enhance living standards
of children, which play vital role in their
life. By taking better understanding about
rules that applied to practices at workplace,
new applicant has successfully performed
and overcome issues that they faced earlier.
Furthermore, from above study, it has been
summarized that by using their legal rights
people have obtained equal growth
opportunities and better services.
TASK 3
INTRODUCTION
Working collaboration means
grouping with other people in order to
achieve better outcomes. Present report In
task 3 will comprise significance of
teamwork & collaborative working. It will
show strategies, interpersonal skills,
benefits, and consequences of poor
collaborative working. Current report will
explain method for promoting equality and
diversity.

A- Collaborative Working (CW)
It creates environment which
supports people to cooperate effective and
work in teams. There are several reasons for
which company need to form this culture
into organization. It comprises improved and
more integrated service, efficiency through
cost saving, sharing knowledge, experience ,
resources and skills. CW aids the
organization to achieve its short as well long
term objectives in short span of time.
B- Strategies that can be utilized for
promoting CW
Open Up communication
The one of effective strategy that
management can give attention is being
connected with subordinates. Encouraging
employees to share their opinion and
speaking up regarding decision made. It
allows employees to feel belongingness &
important part of organization help them to
engage, involve and participate effectually
(12 Crucial Strategies for Promoting Team
Collaboration, 2019). CW through this
brings innovativeness into functions of all
business functions areas. Encouraging
management to frequently host meetings so
that prevailing issues can be known and
resolved.
Clarifying goals, responsibilities and roles
Providing clear instructions for what
is expected form employees enable them to
evaluate require skills , knowledge that can
help them to achieve objectives.
Transparency over who is responsible for
role removes confusion and duplications of
task. With respect to this, time, energy and
financial resources can be saved which lead
to attain collective goals and objectives.
Emphasizing mission statement
Clear company mission statements
makes employees to understand the reason
for which they are expected to do things in
particular way.
C- values of collaborative working
There are several values that guide a
manager to attain such as efficiency,
innovation, service excellence, promoting
leadership and growth. If company has
lacking of these areas manger should take
action to achieve.
D- What interpersonal skills are needed
Interpersonal skills are required to
perform effectively and productively at
workplace. An employee needs varied kind
of interpersonal skills that are-
Work ethics-
With this skill, an applicant may
treat everyone appropriately at workplace
where many people are working with them.
It may help to create positive environment.

Active listening-
An employee needs to work
effectively, for which specific skill is
required and that is active listening, which
made them capable to understand
information give by other and provide desire
outcome by understanding it.
Decision making-
Another interpersonal skill that is
needed just like above is decision-making,
which drive the attention of individual
workers towards achieving set aims and
objectives.
E- What are the benefits of collaborative
working
Increase productivity-
Collaborative working provide
benefits to individual person in term of
increasing their productivity level, which
made them able to provide positive
outcomes (Mora and et.al., 2020).
Improve performance-
It helps to enhance the performance
level of workers, and allow them to gain
further benefits related to employment like
promotion.
Maximize worker satisfaction-
When workers collaborative with
each other, it helps to increase their
satisfaction in term of getting better
suggestions from other people.
Increase motivation level-
Collaborative working increase
motivation and boost the morale of each
worker, which is also important.
F-How to promote equality and diversity in
workplace
Management may promote diversity
and equality at workplace by attracting new
workers and providing growth opportunities
to them as well as existing workforce.
Furthermore, manager may take initiative to
train all the workers, which also help to
promote both term which in return increase
staff productivity, performance and
motivation (Conrad and Meyer-Ohle, 2020).
Along with this, leader may support
everyone without making differences
between existing and new employees. There
leadership behaviour and style help to
promote equality and diversity in company
for longer period of time.
G-How British values embedded into
collaborative working
British values embedded into
collaborative working, via mutual
understanding and respect at workplace,
which is quite beneficial for everyone.
Tolerance is one of those elements that help
to embedded British Values into
collaborative working. It may relate to
different beliefs and faiths. Along with these

values, liberty is another one which embed
into collaborative working style of people
and provide benefits in varied terms such as
increase productivity level and performance
as well.
H-What are the consequences poor
collaborative working
It has been identified that when
workers enable to collaborate and conduct
collaborative working practices, they may
face varied issues for example it decreases
their productivity and morale. Poor
collaborative working leads to decrease
morale and commitment level of workers,
which is beneficial for company as well
other stakeholders. It affects motivation and
morale of people and drive their attention
towards other companies where it happens.
It leads to increase high employee turnover.
The main consequence of poor collaborative
working is project failure.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be
summarized that CW is essential for
promoting team working culture into
business. The case study has focused on
strategies like communication, clear mission
for attaining it. Course of action for equality
and diversity is implemented through
adopting fairness in every procedure. The
consequences of poor CW is lack of morale,
creativeness, etc.