San Diego State University Code of Ethics for a Non Profit Discussion
Each week in your discussion board, you will assume the role of a leadership team in a human resources department. You will be given a topic with which to wrestle questions fundamental to managing your department as well as managing people in the larger organization. Using the course materials as springboards for your basis of methodology, you are expected, as a group of leaders, to come up with solutions to challenges facing human resource departments, generally, and human resources managers, specifically.
For this assignment, come up with a code of ethics for your nonprofit or government organization. Use the course material and develop thoughtful, critically sound ethical guidelines that you have discussed, and in your individual posts, explain why you developed these guidelines. What were you trying to accomplish? What led you in your decision to shape these guidelines? Did you draw from past experiences or was it from reflecting on the course material, overall? Perhaps a bit of both? Be detailed not only in your ethical guidelines but also in your explanation of why (and how) you came to shape your guidelines. Include an organization (mock or real) and explain why your guidelines are a good match for that organization.
Here are some references!
- Dizik, A. (2014, April 28). Leadership in human resources (A special report) — For some managers, doing less is more: Long hours and constant interruptions can reduce productivity; The solution: Just say no. Wall Street Journal.
- Microtraining Associates (Producer). (2018). Ethics and values in social work: Client-centered processes for managing ethical concerns [Video file]. Alexander Street.
- Verschoor, C. (2016). Global survey measures workplace integrity. Strategic Finance, 98(6), 19-20.
- Wilkins, A., Colvard, R., & Lipinski, J. (2014). Does your company have this document? Strategic Finance, 96(1), 35-39.
- Jurkiewicz, C. L., Giacalone, R.A. (2017). Radical thoughts on ethical leadership. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
- Rhode, D. & Packel, A. (2009). Ethics and nonprofits. Stanford Social Innovation Review. Retrieved from https://ssir.org/articles/entry/ethics_and_nonprofits#
- Shier, M. L., Graham, J. R. (2013). Organizations and social worker well-being: The intra-organizational context of practice and its impact on a practitioner’s subjective well-being. Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, 36(1), 61-105.
