Game Time Sporting Goods: Code of Ethics
Game Time Sporting Goods is a family owned and operated sporting goods store that has been in business for more than 25 years. It has four local outlets around the city and two main warehouses. It has more than 150 employees including head management and members of the Board, who are in the majority members of the family that founded Game Time.
In order to provide guidance on business ethical culture and employee ethical training, Game Time has chosen to develop a Code of Ethics that expresses the core principles, guidelines, purposes, values, educational drift, and definitions related to what it means to work for and be a part of the Game Time family. The Game Time motto is "God First, Family Always, and Business for the Sake of Sport" and this motto underlines the core values that we have come to associate with Game Time Sporting Goods.
One of our main goals throughout the year is to practice good corporate social responsibility. CSR is a determining factor in our relationship with the community and it helps us to recognize who we are and what we mean to the community as well as what the community means to us. Giving back to the community that helps to sustain us is our mission and the main reason we are always supporting, endorsing and sponsoring various sporting events, teams and camps in our local community.
Mission Statement
The mission statement of Game Time is this: Game Time Sporting Goods aims to provide the best in sporting equipment and service that money can buy. It is our mission not only to provide the kind of goods that families and individuals have come to expect but also to provide customers with the service they wish that they could get in every sector. Ours is a hands-on commitment to excellence in order to get you ready for game day so that you are on the field and able to give your all to the game you love. In order to facilitate this mission, we have developed a "spirit of mission" (Samaan, Verneuil, 2012) to which all our team members are united. Not only does our "team spirit" equip us with the right mindset and attitude that allows us to serve our customers better but it also can be one of the best facilitators towards implementation of CSR.
A spirit of mission within an organization creates an atmosphere of collective consciousness in which everyone at every level is a willing participant in the company's movement towards an ethical goal and objective. The company's aim, whether to provide a service or produce a product, is deemed beneficial to society, and the achievement of this aim is effected by way of ethical means, such as a virtue system or culture within the corporation/organization. This means providing guidance (corporate guidance for stakeholders) in terms of the value and importance of organizational culture maintenance and quality management.
Guiding Principles
Organizational discipline and "spirit of mission" are intimately linked in an organization's successful operation (Samaan, Vernueil, 2012) and greatly impact the implementation of CSR programs. The spirit of mission is collective in the sense that it is the motivating factor, the common interest, among individuals within an organization, driving them to achieve a specific aim or common good. Each individual adds to or takes away from the total spirit of mission. An apt metaphor may be found in the idea that each individual is a cylinder in an engine. If all cylinders are firing, working together and according to the precepts to which they are bound, the spirit of mission can be said to be operating optimally. In our case, our guiding principles are what serve to keep our engine functioning. The guiding principles of Game Time are based on the idea of servant leadership (Northouse, 2016; Hunter et al., 2013). Servant leadership holds that self-managers are responsible for living up to the ideals and the ideology they set for themselves, whether it is a spiritual, philosophical, or political/social truth: that standard is used to act as a parameter for their actions, a guide for their behavior. They place that standard above themselves and submit to it the way that their subordinates submit to his/her authority. Servant leadership is about leading from behind. It does not challenge persons by setting the example or the bar; it assists people to grow by being there for them, by being supportive, by demonstrating kindness and charity and humility and helpfulness. It is this good example that helps followers to grow into healthier persons....
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