which employees responsible for setting ethical tone for entire organization?

Question

lower level marketing managers
lower level marketing employees
product manager
chief executive officer

Answer 1

CEO

Answer 2

When you say "ethical tone", I assume you mean "norms of ethical behavior". The easy answer is "the CEO", but it is more complex than that. A lot of recent studies on organizations suggest that norms of behavior can be set at all levels of the organization. No individual is super-human, and CEOs, in particular, are usually not hired for making ethical judgements. This is why corporate governance is important--- organizations need to keep checks on the CEO and top management as well.

Norms aren't the same thing as written rules. For example, there is usually no written policy that says don't club the guy in the cube next to you if he smells, but that is a break of a norm---something we take for granted as a behavior that's considered unacceptable. Taking pens or post-its from the office and using it at home can be considered a company rule and not a shared break of norms.

Obviously, the more power you have, the more ability you have to set norms of behavior. But the best organizations are ones where norms are set at all levels and where people above listen to people below. It's the most win-win situation, because then nobody has to waste time or money monitoring employees.

Answer 3

The board of directors set the tone for the organization
The CEO reports to the Board
The shareholders elect the the Board

Therefore the Shareholders set the ethical tone.

Answer 4

Each employee is ethically responsible for themselves, if you rely on someone else for your ethics you will most certainly have to compromise something. Although the CEO should certainly set the tone remember ENRON

Answer 5

An organisation is like a family where everybody contributes & combine it makes them a Family.So U cant say in an org any one person is responsible for Ethical tone or infact anythg for that matter.Its a contribution of each & every person who are wrkg there.

Answer 6

The tone should be set by the head of the company, which is the CEO.

Answer 7

the tone for a company starts at the top, if it is important to the ceo then that trickles down to the line employee

Answer 8

CEO for sure...but all management need to follow suit, especially if an organization is rather large to where the CEO is not physically visible.

Answer 9

if i was i low employee i wouldn't care.