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Assignment: Organizational Ethics Presentation
Choose a topic below.
Taken from the assigned reading in Butts chapter 12, page 401, "Ethical Reflection: Typical Unethical or Illegal Behaviors in Organizations."
Ethical Reflection: Typical Unethical or Illegal Behaviors in Organizations:
1) Occupational fraud and abuse, including conflics of interest and healthcare fraud.
2) Greediness
3) Engaging in covert operations
4) Producing misleading services
5) Reneging or cheating on negotiated terms
6) Creating Fuzzy policies than can cause others to lie to get the job done
7) Showing overconfidence in self-judgment
8) Disloyalty
9) Exhibiting poor quality in performance and apathy in goal attainment
10) Engaging in bigotry, sexism, racism, or showing favoritism
11) Suppressing rights such as freedom of speech and choice
12) Obeying authority in a mindless routine
13) Promoting people who are destructive go-getters. Yet seem to outrun mistakes
14) Price fixing as standard
15) Not speaking up when unethical practices become evident
16) Stepping on others to climb the promotion ladder
17) Sacrificing innocent people and blaming others to get the job done
18) Knowingly exaggerating the advantages of a plan to gathet support
19) Failing to cooperate with others
20) Lying for the sake of business
21) Failing to take responsibility for injurious practices
22) Abusing organizational perks
23) Corrupting the public process through legal means
24) Obstructing or stalling actions and processes
25) Dithering
26) Inefficiency
Create a presentation of 10 to 15 slides or screens excluding the title and references.
Your slides/screen should include titles, main ideas, bullet points, and relevant images, charts, graphs, etc.
In your presentation:
A. Describe an ethical situation, based on the chosen topic that can get in the nurse's way of practicing ethically. Describe the situation clearly and concisely.
B. Identify how this situation relates to one provision within the Code of Ethics for Nurses.
C. Identify two ethical principles that may arise when facing this situation.
D. Discuss how a nurse might lessen the impact of the situation on the nurse's practice.
E. In addition to the course texts, cite and reference a minimum of two additional scholarly sources to support your work.