Ethics And Risks Exercise 1 How Would Essay

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Ethics and Risks Exercise 1 How would you measure the unethical behavior in an organization?

"In its simplest terms, measuring performance means assessing business results to determine how effective a company's strategies and operations are and make changes to address shortfalls and other problems." (Performance Measurement) Performance is a good measurement against unethical behaviors. The process includes defining objectives, or setting clear objective goals, defining critical success factors, actions that must be taken to achieve the objectives, and define performance metrics, measures used to assess the amount of accomplishment. For example, if you use 10 unethical behaviors as 100% and want to target 1 unethical behavior, you would set a ratio of 99 to 1. The 99 would be performance and the 1 would be unethical behaviors.

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(Dube, 2007) If technology is not continually monitored and updated, hackers can steal and change information to destroy a business. Continually monitoring and updating the information system is just part of it. The system needs a management control function that allows employees to only access parts of the system needed to do their individual jobs. Strong written policies need to be implemented…

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Dube, L. e. (2007, Sep 01). Information Resource Management at Hydro-Quebec. Retrieved from Harvard Business Review: http://hbr.org/product/information-resource-management-at-hydro-quebec/an/HEC023-HCB-ENG

Farrell, J.M. (2009, May 12). What's Your Company's Risk Culture? Retrieved from Bloomberg Businessweek: http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/may2009/ca20090512_720476.htm

Performance Measurement. (n.d.). Retrieved from Harvard Manage Mentor: http://ww3.harvardbusiness.org/Corporate/demos/hmm10/performance_measurement/performance_measurement.html


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