Wfed Thematic Analysis Paper

Running head: Thematic Analysis of an Ethical Issue in WFED

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Thematic Analysis of an Ethical Issue in WFED

Thematic Analysis of an Ethical Issue in WFED

Nada M Nafissa

The Pennsylvania State University

WFED 529

4.23.2018

Ethical-values systems highly impact organization mission, culture, values, and policy as well as employee performance, commitment, satisfaction, and motivation (Frisk, Lin, & Kolb, 2004). These ethical-values systems may manifest themselves through professional guidelines, corporate codes of ethics, strategic focuses, and employee decision-making (Frisk, Lin, & Kolb, 2004). In general, business ethics can be approached from two levels, an individual and an organizational level, although

On the other hand, research by McWilliams, Van Fleet, & Corey (2002) supports the idea that firms can use CSR and political influence to affect regulations themselves, such as by influencing intellectual property regulation to perhaps lower labor costs by preventing foreign competitors from using their own versions of an organization?s protected technology. The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility (2008) represents CSR behaviors through the categories of philanthropic economic activity, good corporate governing, implementation of corporate sustainability practices focusing on environmentalism, and a variety of other actions involving social conscientiousness and participation in organizational culture and activity. Additionally, questions arise not only out of the nature of the duties or deontological concerns of corporations, as emphasized in the previous point, but also based on discussion of what motivates participation in CSR: executive leadership, organizational fiscal outcomes, or an organizational or individual culture of altruism (Orlitzky, Siegel, & Waldman, 2011). Centering the issues of CSR around the perspective of stakeholder management (Freeman, 1984) enables corporate firms to take a vision of the firm?s performance in which it is embedded within the larger social and environmental contexts. This has the advantage of aligning with consequentialist outlooks which, as Trevino and Nelson (2014) note, is by far the most commonly cited form of ethical decision-making by managers, and in undermining the ethical-dilemmas which employees often face in choosing between the profits of the organization which employs them and the consequences of those in society outside of the organization by leading