Scenario (fictional):
robotic. is a robotics software company with 100 employees located in South Bend, Indiana, in the United States. Until recently, the corporate culture had been established as a rigid culture that excluded families from company celebrations and in which everyone had an explicit job description. The company hires mostly locals, and only directors make any important decisions. The company has had a formal code of ethics but it has not been enforced. As a result, there have been increasing incidents of personnel doing consulting work for other companies outside of work hours. The CEO is concerned that its robotics software could be compromised. Lately, as the company’s software has been increasingly sought out by robot-producing companies around the globe, the CEO realizes it is time to reimagine a more diverse, inclusive, and global type company while adhering to an ethical code of conduct with uniform responses to infringement.
The CEO knows they will soon need to hire at least another 20 sales staff and additional software developers to address this increasing global demand. The CEO wants to restructure the company while keeping the company costs down as much as possible.
Help ROBoInc. address the problems by completing the checklist items.
View the company’s current organizational structure.
Address the following items in your Assessment submission:
Checklist: Based on the Readings and Learning Activities address the following:
(1) Identify the characteristics needed to implement a shared ethical culture and explain how this will help the organization.
(2) Explain how ethical culture will be affected by the global context. Describe some of the global implications. Use the Competing Values Framework in assessing the situation.
(3) Analyze the current organizational structure and identify the key questions the executives need to answer in order to create the most effective and suitable organizational structure and culture.
(4) Explain the importance of ethical leadership involved in implementing a new organizational structure and suggest a possible new structure based on the Learning Activity.
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