Ethics and Behavior

Ethics has joined the constellation of important factors in managerial and leadership behaviors. At various times in the history of management, ethics has been considered an inconvenience to successful manipulative strategy, an optional reference for decision making, and most recently a core competency of both workers and managers. For example, in a Korn-Ferry survey of CEO failures, ethical malfeasance was the second most identified factor in leadership failure. Almost daily the news presents unsettling reports of abuses of power, disregard of human welfare, violation of employee rights, and so on. Even without these flagrant examples, the work of a manager invariably holds multiple decisions each day, most of which have an ethical consequence to them.

This webpage is designed for students in The College of St. Scholastica Master's Program in Management . Segments are designed around research and reading requirements for specific classes.


MGT6100 Individual Behavior and Personality in the Organization
Objectives:
  • to identify common ethical issues in leadership & team management
  • Leadership & team ethical dilemmas  (brief list of questions)
  • Effective leadership & ethical values (slideshow using Kouzes & Posner study)
  • to describe organizational frameworks for resolving ethical problems
  • to explain the Human Subjects Review rationale for institutional research
  • Human Subjects Review webpage

    • Sample Ethical Policies & Codes

    Cases

    Assessment Instruments


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    Last updated 8-30-00
    David X. Swenson PhD LP