The Organizational Issues

The Organizational issues

Ethical principles are to some degree the issues that organizations have to deal with to be successful and establish themselves as an ethical organization. In this article it will describe how ethical principles are used. From the website "The Responsibility Project," selected from the film Good Vibrations shows how it important to have ethical principles in any organization. Ethical principles can influence and transform an organization from the inside out.

Good Vibrations is short animated film that shows that we have a social responsibility as employees or within the community to do the right thing always, and becoming complacent can have on an organization and community are the important issues of this film. The film reflects more on our community's responsibility than an organizational responsibility, which the principal of social responsibility are the same for both. The film started out with several employees watching from a building vulnerable individual who was being hurt as they walk past a construction worker with a jackhammer doing some construction. Although the construction worker work the pedestrians would trip over a loose brick on the sidewalk while the entire building of employees laugh at the pedestrians.

As an older gentleman walking with a cane approach the loose brick several employees tried to open the window to warn the older gentleman about the upcoming rattling brick to prevent him from getting hurt. When the older gentlemen reach the brick, he stood on top of the brick to figure out what was going on. As a young pedestrian rode his tricycle up to the older gentleman, he realized that the loose brick could hurt the young pedestrian. The older gentleman used his cane to pull a caution sign over the brick to warn other pedestrian of the hazard to keep them from hurting him or herself.

External social pressures play a major role in organizational ethics. Simply describe, external social pressures can be peer pressure, which causes people to think and act as a group and adapt attitude deviations in values and behavior. During the short film we witness entire building of employees laughing at pedestrians hurting themselves while they watch and laugh until several employee saw the older gentleman walking toward the loose brick. Those employees realize they had a social responsibility to warn the older gentleman of the impending hazard that the older gentleman being guided by doing the right thing used his cane to pull the hazard sign so know one else could be hurt at the construction site (Trevino & Nelson, 2011).

There are many people in the building watching other people get hurt when they could have help, knew what they were doing was wrong and unethical. Employees of any organization are a product of society, and bring with them the will to do right or wrong, which they all participate in an unethical culture of watching and laughing at citizens hurting themselves. These same personality types that stood by and watch people