Description
Scenario
You are an experienced ethics officer who has recently been hired by an established company (KAISER PERMANENTE). You have been tasked with analyzing the company’s current code of ethics and identifying areas in need of improvement.
ReQUIREMENTS
Prepare a report (suggested length of 6–8 pages) in which you do the following:
A. Choose a company’s code of ethics from the Web Links section below and analyze that company’s code of ethics by doing the following: KAISER PERMANETE https://www.providers.kaiserpermanente.org/info_as...
1. Analyze how well the chosen company’s code of ethics covers the topic of corporate social responsibility (CSR).
2. Analyze how well the chosen company’s code of ethics covers the topic of compliance with legal mandates.
a. Describe the ramifications for an organization when it is noncompliant with legal mandates.
b. Describe two legal or ethical safeguards the chosen company has in place or could put in place to prevent illegal or unethical acts.
3. Analyze how well the chosen company’s code of ethics facilitates the development of an ethical culture.
4. Explain how an employee would raise an ethical concern in the chosen company and provide three resources available to employees to use when raising an ethical concern.
a. Discuss which resource(s) you would most likely use to report an ethical concern.
B. Develop a policy that instructs employees on how to address unethical conduct observed at work by doing the following:
1. Discuss personal and organizational factors an employee would need to consider as a last resort before deciding to blow the whistle about unethical conduct observed at work.
2. Describe the internal and external reporting steps an employee should follow if the employee decides to blow the whistle.
C. Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of whistle-blowers receiving payment from the government based on one of the following laws:
• False Claims Act
• Dodd–Frank Wall Street and Consumer Protection Act
D. Analyze how the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines have changed the way organizations operate.
1. Discuss three culpability factors that are used to determine fines under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines.
E. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
F. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
Explanation & Answer
Attached.
Outline
Title: How do leaders overcome ethical dilemmas?
A. Analyze a company’s code of ethics.
Kaiser Permanente’s code of ethics or Principles of Responsibility, is based on respect,
scientific discipline, stewardship, pioneering spirit, and integrity. These principles embody
Kaiser Permanente’s dedications to delivering the procedures, policies, and standards which
shape their daily work including how to excel in their profession, how to interact and their
business dealings, and how to display dedication to ethics and compliance. This code is
applicable to each and every employee, director, and officer of the firm regardless of their
position.
1. The Code of Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
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Kaiser Permanente has a website dedicated to Corporate Social Responsibility that
they break down into patient safety, eco-efficiency, product quality, and better health.
These aspects are further established into sustainability in the cooperation with their
partners and future healthcare, good stewardship in their resources, reducing
environmental footprint, supporting and promoting better health for societies and
assisting their clients to succeed, and risk and safety issues.
•
The treatment of these challenges on the company’s website clearly displays a strong
and firm culture of Corporate Social Responsibility within the organization. The
company’s code of ethics is a part of this website and specifically concentrates on the
behaviour of employees and how their actions affects these values. It also adequately
addresses their encouragement and dedication of the involvement of the community.
2. The Code of Ethics and Legal mandates
•
Integrity and compliance are clearly the main drivers in Kaiser Permanente and both
the concepts are perfectly woven into the code of ethics. The document covers core
responsibilities including the ways to take action (in the United States), the
responsibility of speaking up, and the ways to cooperate with ongoing investigations.
•
The company’s code of ethics also addresses other factors such as integrity, political
contributions, insider trading, anticorruption, record keeping, entertainment and gifts,
fair competition, intellectual property, competitive intelligence, financial interests, fair
competition, employee interactions, and trust preservation all with effective scenarios
and explanations for further details. The organization has both integrity and
compliance hotlines in the United States. This sector ideally addresses the law as it
correlates with actions and behaviour as a Kaiser Permanente employee.
A. Describe the ramifications for being noncompliant with legal mandates.
•
Some typical forms of noncompliance acts that Kaiser Permanente’s employees
could make include
a) failure to cooperate with the investigations of potential violations,
b) engaging in unethical and illegal acts,
c) failure to protect the company’s assets and reputation,
d) failure to familiarize oneself with the standards, procedures, and policies
which apply within the workplace,
e) failure to finish required compliance training
f) failure to speak up about concerns of what teammates are doing or asking for
help when unsure about what to do.
•
Failing to adhere to these legal mandates might lead to harsh disciplinary
actions such as criminal or civil charges or the termination of employment.
B. Describe TWO legal or ethical safeguards the chosen company has in place or
could put in place to prevent illegal or unethical acts.
•
Kaiser Permanente has strong codes of conduct and needs its employees to
carefully review in compliance training upon hire every year.
•
This code of conduct covers most ethical threats and offers safeguard answers to
these potential threats. For instance, to protect confidential information such as
financial strategies, records, initiatives, and information, the company requires
each and every employee to wear their identification every time, report to security
if they suspect a person is passing in restricted areas, and withhold access to
unauthorized people.
•
The organization also guarantees that posters with labour guidelines, policies, and
procedures are posted in every workstation which involves some basics stressing
the need for employees to conduct business with honesty, act with integrity and
ethical conduct, protecting confidential information, accept mistakes and
demonstrate consistency, secure the assets of the company, report noncompliance
acts occurring within the company, comply with applicable local, state, and
federal regulations, license requirements, and accreditation.
3. Kaiser Permanente’s code of ethics facilitate and its development of an ethical
culture.
Even though the company’s code of conduct clearly addresses in detail the ethical and legal
problems, they are still framed around the organization’s core values including scientific
discipline, stewardship, respect, pioneering spirit, and integrity. In the company’s code of
ethics, it...
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