conduct

Examples of conduct in the following topics:

• Codes of Conduct

  • Organizations adopt codes of conduct to guide employees' actions and decisions.
  • As part of comprehensive compliance and ethics programs, many companies formulate policies pertaining to the ethical conduct of employees.
  • Public signage often contains messages guiding conduct.
  • Similarly, behavior in organizational settings may be guided by organizational codes of conduct.
  • State the importance of utilizing a code of conduct to outline and maintain ethical business standards within an organization

• Managers Role in Ethical Conduct

  • Managers hold positions of authority that make them accountable for the ethical conduct of those who report to them.
  • The manager has an important role in maintaining ethical conduct in a firm, but a firm's ethics cannot simply be based on a "manager to the rescue" approach.

• The PESTEL and SCP Frameworks

  • According to the structure-conduct-performance (SCP) approach, an industry's performance (or the success of an industry in producing benefits for the consumer) depends on the conduct of its firm.
  • The conduct of the firm, in turn, is dependent on its structure (or factors that determine the competitiveness of the market).
  • This creates a linear relationship of sorts, where the structural inputs can impact the conduct and strategy of the firm, leading to better (or worse) performance.
  • This structure will provide critical inputs for the broader industry, which in turn will impact the conduct of the organization through strategic integration.
  • If this process is accomplished effectively—and management has integrated the external structure with the internal conduct strategically—higher performance can then be derived.

• Defining Values

  • Since values often strongly influence both attitude and behavior, they serve as a kind of personal compass for employee conduct in the workplace.
  • Values can strongly influence employee conduct in the workplace.

• How Values Influence Behavior

  • Values influence behavior because people emulate the conduct they hold valuable.
  • All individuals possess a moral compass, defined via values, which direct how they treat others and conduct themselves.
  • Training programs, codes of conduct, and ethics committees can inform employees of the types of behavior that the company finds acceptable and unacceptable.

• Moral Principles in Management

  • Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct.
  • Business ethics applies to all aspects of business conduct by individuals and organizations as a whole.
  • Ethical behavior is conduct that follows one's personal beliefs or shared organizational or institutional values.

• Social Responsibility Audits

  • Organizations may also hire external firms to conduct CSR audits; these often have more credibility than an internally generated report.
  • Having third-party groups conduct social audits is one way that corporations are held accountable for their CSR performance.

• Project Management Audits

  • It is important, however, to monitor how an audit is conducted so that employees or project team members don't perceive it as a sign that the project manager does not trust them to complete their work.
  • It is important to consider interpersonal factors before conducting an audit of a project.

• The Manager's Role in Ethical Conduct

• Behaviorism: Follett, Munsterberg, and Mayo

  • The research he conducted in the Hawthorne studies of the 1930s showed the importance of groups in affecting the behavior of individuals at work.
  • Mayo's employees Roethlisberger and Dickson conducted the practical experiments.