Responsibility Project
For the completion of the task pertaining to the organizational ethics, the responsibility project website is nominated and short film selected is "Hot Seat." The following paper caters to the specification of the movie in full details.
The Responsibility Project
The Situation Highlighted in the Short Film
The short film presents the scenario of a workplace. It is an animated movie that sheds light on the deviant workplace behaviors. With the lack of resources and inter-employee bonding the movie presents a situation where after losing the resource (chair) the employees start an exchange sequence to suffice their needs but leaving the other employee troubled. For a long period of time the similar exchange program was executed and at last a responsible employee finally takes charge and sort out the problem. The last employee fixes the chair for himself and sets back to work. In the five minutes episode presented in the video many organizational related topics were highlighted (Seat, 2008).
Reason of the Issue Being Important
Taken together the findings reveal that there are various factors that contribute to employee behavior in the workplace and individual and organizational characteristics should both be considered when studying employee behavior. The first thing that organizations should take into consideration is that the relationship between the employee and the organization is contractual and therefore organizations and employees should be aware that their actions have legal implications. After understanding the contractual theory one can consider the typology of deviant workplace behavior which provides a vivid description of how both interpersonal and organizational factors contribute to employee behaviors at the workplace. By understanding the signs of minor deviances, organizations can prevent such deviances from converting into major ones. At the same time conflict of interest is also an emerging topic that helps...
After understanding the conflict of interest exists, organizations can seek to remove this interest to prevent counterproductive behavior. Justice also plays an important role and many workplace behaviors are a result of organizational characteristic whereas en employee's personality also influences workplace behavior. The father of Justice John Rawls advocates principle of equal opportunity which organizations can use to justify employee rights and prevent discrimination at the workplace. Discrimination in the recent years is seen as unintentional and organizational therefore organizations can seek to remove stereotypes to ensure ethical behavior. Stereotypes often result in unfair treatment of employees especially woman and minorities. Sexual harassment is another workplace attitude that is a result of organizational characteristic and deserves attention. Both discrimination and sexual harassment are a result of organizational characteristics that need to be dealt through affirmative action programs. The limitations of this program should be understood to ensure ethical behavior, as many experts see this program as unfair. Lastly one can also consider that individual characteristics can lead to deviant or positive workplace behavior and this includes personality tests. These tests should be ensured for criterion and content validity.
Relevance of the Issue in Organizational Decisions
Motivation was inherently thought of as an internally induced phenomenon but in the recent years various…
