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