Assignment 1
Within the Discussion Board area, write 200-300 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
Anthropologists have defined culture as a body of learned belief, values, traditions, and guides for behavior sharing among members of a group. This idea of culture has been particularly useful for understanding and differentiating among work organizations and the behavior of people in them (Trevino & Nelson, 2014).
Focus your discussion on the following:
What are the cultural frameworks for defining business ethics within organizations?
How should organizations undertake a cultural change? What cultural systems should be implemented? Which should not be implemented?
Are ethics entirely learned, or is it in part inherited and therefore genetic?
Assignment 2
Within the Discussion Board area, write 200-300 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
Acknowledging that the relativity of morality opens up the gray area that is often referenced in discussing ethics, but the most challenging part of acknowledging that gray area is removing your own viewpoint. Consider the concept of equipoise, which is continually monitoring one's thoughts for bias. If you can practice this on a daily basis, you will begin to see more and more areas of gray. This nurtures tolerance and understanding of others, which is what grasping the concept of ethics is all about.
Focus on the following questions:
Do people, in American culture, accept the ambiguity of a "relative" concept like morality, or do they reinforce that idea that someone must be right and someone must be wrong?
If so, where do we get that from?
Why are people so insistent that there is always one "right" way about things?
To what degree does the influence of culture shape that view?