Measuring unethical behaviors in organizations with concrete ratios

Ethics and Risks

Exercise 1 How would you measure the unethical behavior in an organization?

"In its simplest terms, measuring performance means assessing business results to determine how effective a company's strategies and operations are and make changes to address shortfalls and other problems." (Performance Measurement) Performance is a good measurement against unethical behaviors. The process includes defining objectives, or setting clear objective goals, defining critical success factors, actions that must be taken to achieve the objectives, and define performance metrics, measures used to assess the amount of accomplishment. For example, if you use 10 unethical behaviors as 100% and want to target 1 unethical behavior, you would set a ratio of 99 to 1. The 99 would be performance and the 1 would be unethical behaviors.

Exercise 2 Find an article/report related to an external environmental factor that affects business and analyze how the subject would impact your current organization and how you as a manager could handle it.

There are three objectives; recognize how external and internal factors affect information resource management, provide an information management model, and understand how information management is shaped. (Dube, 2007) If technology is not continually monitored and updated, hackers can steal and change information to destroy a business. Continually monitoring and updating the information system is just part of it. The system needs a management control function that allows employees to only access parts of the system needed to do their individual jobs. Strong written policies need to be implemented to allow employees what is allowed and not. For instance, checking individual email is not allowed. Consequences for violations need to be strongly understood and enforced.

Exercise 3 Explain how your organization applies Risk culture.