Ethical Values Of Ethics And Ethics In The Workplace

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Employees’ ratings of their perspective organizations are important to the employer and organization. How employees feel about the workplace environment plays a major role in their productivity. When the workplace environment is more diversity, positive, resourceful, and safe employees work better as individuals and groups to improve the environment. It is important for managers to know how employees feel about the environment so that they can improve any practices that need improvement in order for employees to improve theirs on ethics. On the other hand, it can be hard for managers to receive ratings from employees as in what questions should be asked and taking each employees opinion. An important example of data from Department of Veterans …show more content…

Some ethics includes higher levels of patient satisfactory, less staff turnover, and safety. Patients’ satisfactory levels go hand and hand with cost savings. When patients have a higher turnout rate and are able to get in be serviced and leave effectively the healthcare organization saves money and brings in more money with the increase of patients. An organization with an ethical culture is described as one in which employees appreciate the importance of ethics; recognize and freely discuss ethical concerns; seek guidance about ethical concerns; work to address ethics issues on a systems level; view ethics as an important component of the organization; understand what ethical practices are expected of them; feel empowered to behave ethically; and view organizational decisions as ethical (Fox, Crigger, Bottrell, and Bauck 2007). When employees experience great ethics in their organization they are proud of their organization and are more than likely to become long-term …show more content…

For example, do perceptions of some attributes influence employees’ determinations more than others? Do positive or negative perceptions of attributes have greater influence? Or do employees average their perceptions of the attributes to determine if their organization is ethical? (Cohen 2015). One organization in particular that has decided to administer surveys in order to gain information from employees on their perceptions of ethics is the Department of Veteran Affairs, VA. Their surveys are designed to get employees opinions of the ethics in the organization, monitor employees progress, and the results are used to catalyze quality improvement activities (Cohen 2015). All of this measure add to employees’ total rating of their organization (Foglia et al., 2013). Data was collected from 42,412 VHA employees who were associated with 141 administratively defined medical centers that encompass more than 1,400 sites of care delivery and VA administrative program officers that are all a part of Veteran Affairs. There was a response rate of 29.4%. (Cohen 2015). The survey asked employees to rate their perception of the VA healthcare facility or program office where they work which served as the dependent variable. The question “How would you rate your facility as an ethical

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