Ethical Behavior: Tyco

A. I took the mechanisms from the article and applied the behaviors from the book to show how they would be 100% sufficient to overcome unethical behavior. Using denial of responsibility and the behavior of taking responsibility if someone is responsible then he or she will know that there is a choice on whether to participate in corrupt activities. The responsible thing would be to not participate in unethical behavior. He or she will not believe that they had no choice in the matter. With denial of injury and reproaching of unjust acts the employees will not try to convince themselves that no one was harmed by his or her actions. This meaning that the employee will not engage in corrupt behavior because they do not participate in unjust acts. Then with denial of victim and the concern for the greater good he or she will never argue that the victim deserved it because you cannot do what is in your best interest. Therefore, you will not commit the unethical act because it is not in the greater good for the greatest amount of people. B. Then this is how the behaviors would not be 100% sufficient to overcome the mechanisms. With denial of victim the behavior of the greater good would be blaming one person instead of everyone. The whole firm could decide that the greatest good for the greatest amount of people would be blaming one employee, instead of the whole firm. The whole firm deciding that he or she deserved it. Then using the behavior of striving for fairness and the mechanism of the metaphor of the ledger. An employee can strive for fairness and still commit an unethical act such as, believing that their actions were fair because they do more for the company then he or she is supposed to. For example, using the company’s property for personal use, although it does not affect anyone it is still ethically incorrect. Lastly, with fulfilling commitments and appealing to higher loyalties an employee can be fully committed to their boss and still commit unethical behavior. For example, doing anything an employer says and fully committing to it and then later on finding out it was unethical. You have already fully committed to it and you cannot go back on your word. Tyco was losing money because investors had concerns with the strategic focus, with the incorporation of …show more content…
Hiring an outside auditor to take a look at the financial statements by doing so it would expose all the illegal accounting activities Tyco was involved in. Implementing an ethics-training program to enforce a stronger ethical climate. This would fix the corporate culture that encourages managers to bypass accounting rules to inflate results in the managers departments (Stanwick & Stanwick, 2014, p. 407). There was obvious unethical behavior happening at Tyco. The judge should implement a hotline where employees can voice their unethical concerns. This will help the employees remain anonymous and still help the judge resolve the different unethical issues with Tyco. Employees in different departments have a better understanding of what is going on then the judge would. Hiring a corporate ethics officer to take action against the unethical actions Kozlowski and Swartz were committing. They were falsifying business documents that were hurting the security of the company. The officer would improve the ethical culture of