Chapter 3 + 19: Establishing Goals Consistent with Your Values and Ethics & Project Management

Ethical Audit

A broad-based, agreed-upon system that lets an organization consistently focus and refocus on its values and whether its performance is meeting the standards it professes

SMART

A goal that is Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and has a Time Frame

Morality

A person's belief about his or her obligations

Pre-conventional Level

A person's moral judgments are characterized by concrete, individual perspectives.

Ethics Test

A series of questions that aids employees in making well-considered judgments about a situation before making a decision.

Code of Ethics

A written statement of values and guidelines for how to treat employees and customers.

Project Time Line/Work Plan

All the steps necessary to complete the project, a time frame to allow for completion of the project and assignment of responsibilities for individual team members.

Goal-Setting

Based on the premise that conscious goals affect action

Post-conventional Level

Characterized by reasoning based on personal values and principles

Values

Concepts or beliefs about desirable outcomes that transcend specific situations and guide your selection or evaluation of behaviors and events

Intangible Values

Concepts rather than things. Freedom, independence, happiness, friendship, and love are these values and can be defined differently for each person. Consists of ideal you wish to strive towards or pursue.

Decision-Making Model

Frameworks that employees can use to help make decisions about ethical actions by following a short, step by step list of rules.

Conventional Level

Having a basic understanding of the need to conform to societal standards, realizing that norms and conventions are necessary to uphold society

Backscheduling

Involves looking backward from a target date, beginning with your goal or objective, and then plotting the means to achieve it.

Goal

Level of proficiency or standard of behavior we wish to attain within a specified period of time

Moral Development

Levels that represent a shift in the social-moral perspective of the individual that explains how judgments affect action

Ethics

Moral principles that people use to guide their behavior by separating right from wrong

Stakeholders

People (employees, customers, suppliers, and shareholders) who have an interest in the outcome of the decision.

Ethical Decision Making

Recognizing that an issue involves an ethical question, making an ethical judgment, deciding to do the ethical thing, and actually acting ethically.

Ethical dilemmas

Situations where we are faced with setting goals or making decisions that will be based largely on judgments and determinations rather than on indisputable facts.

Instrumental Values

The "How's" of goal setting. The standards of behavior by which we achieve desired ends. Examples: Courage, Honesty, Compassion, and Loving

Terminal Values

The "What's"- the end start or goals that we would like to achieve during our lifetime. Such values include a happy family life, career success, wisdom, salvation, prosperity, or sense of accomplishment.

Project Management

The coordination of your work and that of others such that organizational objectives can be achieved while meeting time, budget, and quality standards or expectations.

Tangible Values

Things you can see, feel, or hold, including the kind of car you want to drive, the level of income you want to have, and the size of the house you want to own. Consists of the materials things you want to possess