ROBoInc. is a robotics software company with 100 employees located in South Bend, Indiana, in the United States. Up until now, the culture has been fairly strongly established as a rigid culture that excludes families from all company celebrations and everyone has 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 as their robotics software could be compromised.
Lately, as the company’s software is increasingly sought by robot-producing companies around the globe, the CEO realizes it is time to re imagine 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 need to hire at least another 20 sales staff and additional software developers soon to address this increasing global demand. The CEO wants to restructure the company while keeping company costs down as much as possible.
Help ROBoInc. address the problems by completing the checklist items.
See the company’s current organizational structure.
Address the following items in your Assessment submission:
Checklist:
1) Identify the characteristics needed in implementing a shared ethical culture and explain how this will help the organization.
2) Explain how the ethical culture will be affected by the global context. What are 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 organization structure and suggest a possible new structure.
