Soft Systems MODEL for business ethics
CATWOE
with
Vikram Karve
Before you make a decision or implement change or a new system I’m sure they consider five “E’s” :
activity (it will work at all?)
efficiency (it work with minimum resources?)
performance (it carries the company?)
Ethics or morale (it’s moral?)
Elegance (is it? nice)
Let’s talk about the fourth “E” -. Ethics
It is an ethical dimension to every decision. Each time a person or company engaged in the life of another person or company that comes directly or indirectly, an ethical situation.
It is a story, probably apocryphal, which illustrates this.
It was a cyclonic storm and millions of fish washed ashore and fought for life on the beach. A man came to the beach and patiently began to pick up the fish one by one and throwing them back into the sea. A passerby asked him amused would the difference it makes, as the man pointed at the fish in his hand and said, “Ask this fish?”
So we can see that seemingly routine decisions that have not shown at the organizational level, the primary ethical scale, high ethical importance on the individual level.
Some people think that ethics is of little importance to business. “Ethics is ethics” and “Business is Business” , they say.
So many climbers leaders today tend to rationalize when faced with an ethical dilemma and take the attitude that they have to wear multiple hats and ethical covered himself with three separate conflicting ethical rules: a code of professional or technical aspects of their work (Professional or Technical Ethics) , another for their business operations (Business Ethics) and a third ethics for their personal lives (personal ethics ).
This leads to the development of ethical schizophrenic personality, the individual may, for the professional quality and high ethical standards, fighting for himself and his own organization, but resort to unethical practices to business success regardless of price.
This Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde approach is central to many ethical dilemmas in management decision making.
Any person, organization, group, institution or constituency that is expected to be affected by the decision is a “stakeholder” with a moral claim to decision makers.
interested concept provides a systematic way of perceiving and resolving the various interests involved in our ethical decision making.
It is an ethical dimension to every decision.
It makes all your decisions that affect other people, have ethical implications, and virtually all important decisions reflect your sensitivity and commitment to ethics.
summary, how to perform your job at your workplace, what are the ethical dimensions of how connected you are with your boss, colleagues, subordinates, customers and other stakeholders work.
Different players have different ethical perspectives.
For example, the case of organizational romance take.
some organizations [and interest] feel that there is not anything ethically wrong with workplace romance and many even encourage organizational romance / marriage with colleagues from various concessions / incentives, some others discourage or even prohibit workplace romance. Would obviously sexual harassment common opinion unethical.
A useful technique to resolve such ethical dilemmas
CATWOE model of the system is adapted management.
ethical dilemma caused by imbalance in ethical perspective on the various stakeholders in the ethical situation.
A CATWOE analysis helps the leader identify all those involved i. a decision, and their respective ethical perspectives
CATWOE is a shortcut to categorize the various stakeholder groups:
CATWOE MODEL
C = CUSTOMERS or customers DECISION
A = actor , or agents, IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DECISION
T = transformation process , makers
W = faith , faith predominantly PRACTICE
O = OWNER / PROPERTY
E = ENVIRONMENTAL / environmental rules
To get a bit complicated:
C : The customers of the system “in this context” customer “those on the receiving end of what it is that the system works.. it is clear from your definition of “C” that will win or lose, or your decision
A : The “actors”, ie those who actually carry out the activities planned for the fictitious system-defined
T : The “Transformation” What the system to transform inputs into outputs
W : philosophy – the “.. world “that lies behind the root definition. commissioning of the system a wider context can highlight the consequences of the system. For example, the system help the world more environmentally friendly, and the consequences of system failures was significant pollution
O The” The owner (s) ‘- ie. those who stop to sufficient formal power over the existing system if they wish (although not usually, you do) do
E : The. “Environmental Issues”. These include things such as ethical limits, regulations, financial constraints, limited resources, limits to the mandate, and so on.
CARDINAL ASPECTS OF ethical decision making <p All decisions must take into account and reflect the respect of the interest and welfare of all concerned. Ethical values and principles always take precedence over non-ethical and unethical values and principles
<p, it is ethically proper to violate an ethical principle, when clearly needs another true ethical principle which, according the decision maker's conscience, the greatest balance of good long-term five-step approach ethical decision making
Step Action
1 Identify and classify the actors in the situation through CATWOE and understand their ethical perspectives
2 Identification of dominant ethical perspectives
Construct an ethical conflict took, mapping different ethical perspectives [CATWOE - six knots] ..
four identify parts of the Internet, where no significant conflict is likely to exist. These can be removed from the ethical decision making model.
5 Concentrate on those areas where conflict exists. Using conflict resolution techniques “on track” to reach the system
Ethical decision making is the process whereby a person evaluates and chooses between alternatives in accordance with his or her ethical values and principles.
So if you’re an ethical decision that you have:
(a) see and eliminate unethical options
(b) the best selection of several competing ethical alternatives.
Ethical decision making requires more than belief in the importance of ethics. It requires sensitivity to recognize the ethical implications of your decisions. Ability to evaluate complex, ambiguous and incomplete facts and the ability to implement ethical decision making without jeopardizing your career
Ethical decision making requires three things:
ethical obligation
ethical consciousness
ethical competence
CATWOE model you can find help in Decision Management – improve the ethical aspects of your business, professional and personal decisions
Wed Vikram Karve
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