MGT1014 Tutorial 3 Chapter 5 - Ethics & Social Responsibility .pptx

Ethics & Social Responsibility

1. MGT1014 Tutorial 3 Week 4 Ch5 Ethics & Social Responsibility

2. Gentle reminder By the end of this week, you MUST have ALL been allocated to a group for your assignment. Any student without a group please inform your respective tutor immediately.

3. Tutorial 3 (Week 4): Ethics & Social Responsibility Do you believe that it is ethical for organizational managers to try to get access to and scrutinize the Facebook pages of employees or job applicants ? Discuss.

4. Do you believe that it is ethical for organizational managers to try to get access to and scrutinize the Facebook pages of employees or job applicants ? Discuss. 1. Definition: What is Ethics 2. Context: Managers & Ethics: is it ethical of the manager acting in such situation/action Social Media & ethics 3. Theory: Moral‑rights approach 4. Practical approaches/considerations

5. Managers faced with tough ethical choices Guiding principles/frameworks to make decisions in an ethical manner: 1 Utilitarian approach 2 Individualism approach 3 Moral‑rights approach 4 Justice approach Distributive justice Procedural justice Compensatory justice: 5 Practical approach Ethics is the code of moral principles and values that governs the behaviors of a person or group with respect to what is right or wrong. Managers: Just because managers aren’t breaking the law doesn’t necessarily mean that they are being ethical. Recap what you have learned?

6. #3 Moral‑rights Approach Do you believe that it is ethical for organizational managers to try to get access to and scrutinize the Facebook pages of employees or job applicants ? Discuss. Attaining publicly available data may be useful to a company to screen candidates and current employees in order to improve work practices and overall running of the business. Public information is readily available however, management must be cautious on how this information is obtained and more importantly used. Managers must reflect on the moral ethics of engaging in this activity and ensure that information obtained is not misused. The moral‑rights approach asserts that human beings have fundamental rights that cannot be taken away by an individual’s decision. An ethically correct decision is one that best maintains the rights of those people affected by it .

7. Arguments can include but not limited to the following considerations: Moral rights approach advises that to make ethical decisions, managers need to avoid interfering with the fundamental rights of others, such as the right to privacy, the right of free consent, or the right to freedom of speech. Reflect on: Could s uch activity could be viewed as a violation of the right of free consent and/or the right of privacy. Is the information that is being scrutinized publicly available data? Does the body have permission to by pass the privacy settings? Were any hacking tools used to by pass the privacy settings? Is the information attained being stored without the permission of the individual? Is the information attained being used in any other way/disseminated without the consent of the person? What information is being used and how. Caution on leak of information/rumors starting as a result of this information which could affect workplace morale. What are the data privacy laws that protect the employee/job applicant?