Scenario (fictional): SilverWire software company with 75 employees is located in Seattle, Washington, in the United States. Up until now, the culture has experienced some employee bad behavior and a laissez-faire culture.
The company hires mostly locals, and everyone seems to make important decisions. The company has had an informal code of ethics, and 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 their software company could be compromised. Lately, as educators worldwide have increasingly sought out the company’s software, the CEO realizes it is time to reimagine a more diverse, inclusive, and global 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 engineers to address this increasing global demand. The CEO wants to restructure the company while keeping company costs down as much as possible.
Help SilverWire address the problems by completing the checklist items.
View the company’s current organizational structure.
Address the following items in your submission:
Checklist:
(1) Identify the characteristics needed to implement a shared ethical culture and explain how this will help the organization’s current organizational structure.
(2) Explain how the ethical culture will be affected by the global context. Describe some of the global implications. Use the competing values framework in analyzing the situation.
(3) Analyze the current organizational structure and identify the key questions the executives need to answer to create the most effective and suitable organizational structure and culture.
(4) Explain the importance of ethical leadership in implementing a new organizational structure and suggesting a possible new structure based on the learning activity.
