Business Memo: Organizational Influence on Behavior

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Business Memo
TO: Managers
FROM: Researcher
DATE: 10-09-2022
SUBJECT: Organizational Influence on Behavior
A specific company’s culture impacts the ethical judgment of stakeholders, shareholders, and workers. Firms that are always determined to devise a solid moral culture encourage ethical behavior among those involved, bringing in many benefits at the individual and organizational levels (Sapada et al., 2017). First and foremost, a better culture motivates individuals to speak and behave appropriately while incorporating integrity and honesty. Secondly, firms that demonstrate strong morals in their operations and interactions attract and retain clients, luring them to purchase more products or/and services. Clients will always become happy, confident, and satisfied when doing business with an ethical-driven company. Thirdly, good ethics and behavior attract investors and assure them with a piece of mind when they capitalize on morally upright businesses. Most importantly, they can rest assured that their capital and ultimate investments are secure. Also, share prices remain higher when good ethics exist. This offers ventures protection from takeovers. Moreover, such companies also maintain their employees in the long term. This decreases employee turnover chances.
Various organization-based policies or practices can promote unethical behavior amongst employees. The first organizational practice is bribery. In circumstances where organizational management allows an inducement in various forms like money, promotion, value, etc., to control a particular business decision or gain favor might encourage employees to be unethical. The second practice in the company setting that might increase workers’ unethical behavior is selling customer information. Some organizations might confirm the right to sell customer information in their terms and conditions. Despite mainly being legal where the information lacks identifiable data, this might encourage employees to access sensitive client information, which is unethical behavior. The third practice is mistreating workers. For example, an organization might create stressful conditions against employees’ rights. These might include but are not limited t...