Final Exam Flashcards
What are merit raises?
to award compensation increases based on performance
What are the purpose of performance appraisals?
Performance appraisal is the systematic evaluation of employees with respect to their performance on their job and their potential for development. In other words, it is the process of measuring productivity in terms of efficiency and effectiveness
What are the elements of a good performance appraisal?
Compensation increase, improve job performance, remove inadequate employees, identify high performers and prepare for promotion, achieve overall improvement.
When do ethical problems arise in the hiring process?
Choosing a certain type of employee is not unethical. The patterns of behavior can be considered unethical if the last six hiring decisions are pretty females, this creates a pattern.
What are affirmative action and diversity initiatives about?
Affirmative action is meant to help eliminate possible ethical issues by removing barrios, eliminating bias and recognizing underrepresented groups.
How can a utilitarian approach affect hiring?
The utilitarian ethics approach requires that the hiring manager think about hiring consequences that may extend months or years.
What is progressive discipline?
Clear quantifiable goals, Clear and formal communication, regular discussions, impacts to performance.
What are the categories of privacy?
Age, Marital status, Health history, and Hobbies can not be discussed at interviews.
What are the categories of unethical financial reporting?
Most clerks will adopt a few codes as the preferred ones, and in case of doubt will make an entry into one of these few codes. Over time, this approach will result in systematic errors charging too many expenses or crediting too much income to the favored codes, and not enough to the others. The resulting summary accounting reports will be inaccurate, with a consistent over-reporting in some areas and under-reporting in others. Overall totals may be correct, but the breakdown within categories will be consistently inaccurate.
Who is a virtuous person?
It says that the moral act is the one which a virtuous person would perform in a given circumstance. Becoming a virtuous person requires that manager act consistently in this manner
to accumulate experience.
What is the values-based approach to ethics?
Values-based approaches to ethics emphasize the development of shared principles regarding ethical behavior.
What are the 3 levels of inquiry into business ethics?
There are three levels of inquiry into business ethics that relate to the multi-faceted and multi-disciplinary nature of business ethics. These are micro, meso.and macro. These three levels of inquiry are important to the discussion of ethics programs and the nature of evaluation of an effective program.
What is a compliance based approach to ethics?
Compliance based approaches to ethics emphasize detection and discipline of rule violations.
What defines an ethical organizational culture?
The organizational culture is influential on the actions of the individuals within the
company and defining of the company’s ethical stance.
What are the 5 ways leaders can change organizational culture?
Managers can promote ethical behavior by focusing on both the individual and organizational levels. Leaders can use specific mechanisms to change the organizational culture to support ethical behavior. This is important when ethical behavior is not supported.
