A Bottom-Up Approach to the Codes of Ethical Conduct

First Assignment: Read the article below.

Hill, R., & Rapp, J. (2014). Codes of Ethical Conduct: A Bottom-Up Approach. Journal of Business Ethics, 123(4), 621-630. doi:10.1007/s10551-013-2013-7.
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Based on what you read in the assigned article, answer the following questions:

1. Identify and define the four stages to the process to build a code of conduct from the bottom up approach?
2. Of the four stages, which one do you feel is the most important? Why?
3. How does the use of the bottom up approach provide a better approach than a top down process?
4. How would the application of this approach assist companies in preventing unethical conduct? Second Assignment: As a member of the Committee for Dynamic Success, you have spent some time researching other companies’ Codes of Ethics. Codes of Ethics can range from being specific to being broad in nature. The President decided that they would like to have all of the committee members make a draft of a potential Code of Ethics for the organization. For your draft, the President wants each person to create 10 Rules for Ethical Conduct for Luxor Employees. Your rules do not need to be lengthy, but need to have enough detail so that all of the employees know the basic expectations.

label questions as question 1, question 2, and answer below each

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Stage One involves the framing of the conversation where each person prepares a list of his or her ethical rules or commandments so as that they may recognize their moral tendencies. Stage Two involves work team discussions where the conversation moves from the individual level to the group discussions that are designed to create mutual moral parameters (Hill & Rapp, 2014). Stage Three entails intergroup negotiations where independent groups start negotiating with other organizational units to continue defining and developing the organization’s ethics code. Stage Four is where the top executives of the firm endorse the corporate code of ethics developed in the prior stages..
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