Part 3 Flashcards
Entrepreneurial Culture
Emphasizes creativity, innovation, and risk taking. Tech companies are a good example
Bureaucratic Culture
Emphasizes formal structures and the correct implementation of organizational procedures, norms, and rules. This type of culture is commonly associated with consistency and high ethical standards.
Consensual Culture
Emphasizes loyalty and tradition, and encourages employees to stay with the organization for a long time. Promotion is generally from within. Jacobsen, Military
Competitive Culture
Emphasizes competitive advantage and market superiority. Brokerage
Utilitarian Standard
The ethical action best balances good over harm by doing the most good or doing the least harm. Not acting based on individual rights or fairness to every single person, but rather on the outcome that will benefit the greatest number of people. Vaccine example
Rights Standard
The ethical action is the one that best respects and protects the moral rights of everyone affected by the action, including the right to privacy, to be told the truth, or to be safe.
Fairness Standard
The ethical action treats all people equally, or at least fairly, based on some defensible standard.
Common Good Standard
The ethical action shows respect and compassion for everyone, especially the most vulnerable.
Virtue Standard
The ethical action is consistent with certain ideal virtues including civility, compassion, and benevolence.
Unfair discrimination
occurs when employment-related decisions and actions are not job-related, objective, or merit-based.
Fair discrimination
is when only objective, merit-based, and job-related characteristics are used to determine employment-related decisions.
National Labor Relations Act of 1935
Prohibits retaliation against employees seeking to unionize.
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938
Establishes both a national minimum wage and overtime rules
Equal Pay Act of 1963
Prohibits wage discrimination on the basis of sex.
Disparate treatment
intentional discrimination based on a protected characteristic.