Envisioning An Ideal Organization, The Responsibilities Of Leadership

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Envisioning an Ideal Organization
Ethics is concerned with a person’s moral judgments regarding wrong and right. It is of great importance for an ideal organization (Dalla 34). This paper discusses what an ethical organization would look like and how examples and concepts covered in class could be applied to the creation of an ethical organization. In addition, the responsibilities of leadership in creating an ethical organization are described
Depiction of an Ethical Organization
The ideally ethical organization is a clothing and footwear company. The firm engages in designing, developing, marketing and selling athletic apparel and footwear for both men and men. It carries out its operations in the United States and is planning to expand to Europe and Asia starting 2018. This is a publicly-traded, for-profit corporation with its headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama. The company provides various categories of athletic apparel and footwear, including those for soccer, baseball, training, basketball, running, tennis, golf, wrestling and outdoor activities. It also offers products that are designed for children aged 4 years to 15 years. My role in this organization is that I am a middle-level manager. I report to the top executives.
The mission statement of the company is as follows: to be a leader in the athletic goods with products designed with a passion for a sporting lifestyle and for sports activities. In this regard, the firm focuses on bringing the most innovative and best sportswear to consumers. The company is consumer-focused and thus it continuously strives to improve the image, feel, look and quality of its products in order to match or go beyond the expectations of customers and to offer them the highest value. The company uses functional organizational structure. It has different portions and each of them is grouped in accordance with its purpose. There are a production department, a sales department, a human resources department, and a marketing department.
The company has in place institutional policies aimed at promoting ethics. In particular, there is a Code of Ethics and a Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct specifies that supplier factories which make products for the company have to satisfy a stringent set of compliance requirements. The Code of Conduct comprises standards pertaining to safety, health, freedom of association, wages, and hiring practices. The company often reviews supplier factories for the purpose of assessing their capacity to satisfy the company’s high standards. The Code of Ethics is for every company employee and it outlines standards of conduct that the company expects every employee to follow. It includes various topics on use of resources, competition, legal compliance, product safety, and ethical behavior. Moreover, the firm has a corporate culture that emphasizes ethical conduct. Everybody in the organization is held accountable for ethical behavior. The firm is socially responsible. Every year, it donates 2.5% of its profits to local charity organizations. Other than philanthropy, the firm encourages its employees to volunteer their time in support of certain community organizations.
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