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Analysis of Personal and Organizational Ethics and Values For The Profit and Nonprofit

A comparative ethics analysis for for-profit and nonprofit organizations.

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    A nalysis of personal and organizational ethics and values for the profit and nonprofit Analysis of Personal and Organizational Ethics and Values between For - Profit and Not - for - Profit Organizations : You are an ethnographic researcher writing an article for a popular organizational behavior research journal. Your purpose is to identify key problems related to business ethics in a Not - for - Profit and For - Profit organization. In this potential article please complete the following activities: 1. Outline the company profile of the not for profit company you chose to analyze (consult the week #2 journal for the information you should include). Explain the ethical dilemma that it faced or is currently facing. Analyze the way that it responded to this ethical dilemma and outline the legal, social, or political outcomes that emerged after the actions were taken.. 2. Outline the company profile of the for profit company you chose to analyze (consult the week #2 journal for the information you should include). Explain the ethical dilemma that it faced or is currently facing. Analyze the way that it responded to this ethical dilemma and outline the legal, social, or political outcomes that emerged after the actions were taken. 3. In part three of your paper, please provide your personal reflections on the ethical actions that were taken in relation to the problem. Evaluate those actions from your own ethical standpoint. Use these questions to inspire your analysis: Did the company respond in a morally responsible way? Did the company respond in a morally irresponsible way? Did the company create the ethical dilemma or was the dilemma the outcome of an unforeseen force? Could the company have done more? Who was responsible for the problem and how could it have been prevented? o Remember that when you analyze something you should present logical reasoning and factual evidence to support your position. Do not merely answer these questions using simplistic yes and no answers. Instead, you should always support your position with logical argumentation and evidence that explains why you believe what you believe. 4. In part 4 of your paper please create a critique of the actions of these companies based on two of the philosophical theories that you studied earlier in the course (deontology, utilitarianism, egoism, virtue ethics, moral relativism). Determine which moral theory the company appears to be abiding by in relation to this issue. Explain the attributes of the decision that make you believe that this is the ethical perspective of the company. If you agree with the ethical theory of the company, explain why this is the best ethical position on the issue. If you do not, explain which ethical position would be better to utilize in this situation and why you believe that this position is better. Here are some sample questions to guide your thinking: o Which ethical theory did the company use in making its decision? Was it the best? Why or why not? o Which ethical theory should the company have used? Why? o What is the ideal relationship between bad or suffering and profit? o What does it mean to run an ethical business?

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    o What is the best way for a company to maintain its competitive edge and contribute to overall good or happiness in relation to its workers and customers?

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    Analysis of personal and organizational ethics and values for the profit and nonprofit organizations Analysation of OCLC: The online computer library centre (OCLC) is actually a nonprofit organization that posed the sole purpose of developing a research centre that will be immensely beneficial for achieving of information regarding the international events that take place in world history. It was established in the year 1967. The organization received its initialization with the collaboration of the Ohio College Library and its other member libraries for the production of WorldCat, which was known as the best public online catalog available in the world. The chief priority that was provided by OCLC was cataloging in the academic libraries. It is essential to mention that the base of OCLC lied in the labors and actions of catalogers work for more than 30 years. The foundation of OCLC was solely built on the shoulders of the librarians and the catalogers’ who were mostly over qualified but under paid and also under appreciated. Ethical dilemma faced by OCLC: The condition of OCLC was quite appreciable till the year 2006, but after that year, the organization turned its back towards the librarians and the catalogers who have been working there for a very long period of time. This decision of the OCLC was one of the most disastrous decisions made by the organization which led to a flood of criticism that the research centre had to face. It was accused of the unethical behaviors and not valuing the virtues and obligations that any organization possesses towards its employees. The company was accused of unethical value towards the librarianship, the degree of MLS, the librarians, the catalogers and the other employees of the organization.

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    The advertisements regarding employment that have been promoted by OCLC were the proof of the fact OCLC possessed too much antipathy towards its employees working there. It was observed the company never recruited MLS librarians. It was a very rare scenario that one could see any job opening for the requirement of the MLS degreed librarians. The sole concern for the organization was generating profit and money from the market and making the continuation of the business entrepreneurship. The demand of the organization was to engage people that could come up with profitable strategies and activities that could be beneficial for the organization in terms of money . This was the only objective of the organization , to generate monetary benefit and destroy the any competition that seemed to be posing a threat to the company. It was observed that, most of the job openings were local and the organization was filled up by employees who were either receiving advanced business or degrees of computer science from the University of Ohio. The major cause of discontent towards the organization was that, most of the people that worked in the organization were either the students of computer science or the graduates in computer science. The reason is that, computer science was such a subject of study that was absolutely different from library science and librarians. The theory behind this reason is that the computer scientists have the tendency to consider and prove the man made things to be obsolete and think that the metadata created by a computer is much more efficient than any human creation. The sole purpose behind the recruitment of the computer science students was that, the company wanted to make a huge advancement in business by making the use of technology which was the major cause of discontent towards the company. And as the employees were being underpaid for their efforts the internal management system of the organization was breaking down as the employees were not at all satisfied with the organization. It was quite surprising considering the

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