Manager’s Ethics, Management Values & Corporate Culture

Reading

Brusseau, J. (2012). Business Ethics. New York, NY: 2012 Book Archive Project.

• Chapter 8: Manager’s Ethics: Getting, Promoting, and Firing Workers
• Chapter 9: Manager’s Ethics: Deciding on a Corporate Culture and Making It Work

Renouard, C. (2012). The private sector and the fight against poverty. Field Actions Science Reports. The journal of field actions, 4. Available from: https://factsreports.revues.org/1573; the article as a PDF file).

ASSIGNMENTS:

For this PART 1:

Please read the case study entitled “I Created Studio 54!” that you find in the reading assignment.

Based on what you have learned in this unit, answer the following questions:

1. With a focus on the facts that D’Alessio and company generally hired young, attractive, and muscular men, asked them to work with almost no clothes, and fed them drugs to brighten their attitudes, how would you characterize management’s culture with respect to employees? Were they valued as mercenaries, as something closer to members of a family, as something else?
2. How would you describe the Studio 54 attitude toward its consumers? Were they valued as people to be fleeced of their money, as participants in a shared project? Something else? Why do you think that?
3. What is transformational leadership? What is transactional leadership? Does D’Alessio share characteristics with one or both? How?
4. Part of the reason for naming a leadership style a leadership persona is to underline the idea that being a leader can be like donning a mask: you can be whatever you choose when you stand in front of others and direct. Besides being a leader at Studio 54, D’Alessio was also a massive partier. How is adopting a personality for leading an organization like adopting a style to exhibit when you go out with friends on the weekend?

Please write an essay of complete and well composed paragraphs (250 word minimum for the entire essay) Be sure to use in text citation and provide references for your sources. Wikipedia is not a source.

For this PART 2:

Please read the case study entitled Even Better Than the Real Thing that you find in the reading assignment.

Based on what you have learned in this unit, answer the following questions:

1. Would you call honesty part of the corporate culture at Finer Bags? Yes, no, or both? Explain.
2. Corporate cultural dissonance occurs when what actually happens on the ground doesn’t jibe with the principles supposedly controlling things from above. Do you suspect that dissonance is occurring here? Why or why not?
3. This company is selling counterfeit purses, bags designed to trick people into thinking they’re real when they’re not. No one denies that. Could you use a utilitarian argument (bring the greatest good and happiness to the greatest number) to justify this corporate culture and business endeavor as ethically respectable?
4. Could you use either a basic duties argument (right and wrong is defined by preexisting principles) or Kant’s categorical imperative (to be right an act must be universalizable) to make the ethical case that this company should put itself out of business?

Writte a paper that is well constructed using APA format. The paper should be a minimum of one typewritten page (approximately 300 to 400 words) with an introduction and conclusion. This paper shall demonstrate use of standard written English with respect to: organization, grammar, spelling, composition, sentence structure, punctuation, and construction.