Planning

Planning is fundamental to any organization in its ability to succeed. Planning is

the first step any organization must do before carrying forward toward any new initiative.

Ethics is a consideration that organizations must keep in mind when planning all facets of their organizastions objectives. Ethics is: The system of rules governing the

ordering of values. (Batemen et al, 2004). In other words, ethics is what should be the guide for how businesses conduct business. it helps answer the question of what is the right thing to do. This can be a conflicting concept for many managers. The right thing to do does not always seem to agree with the needs of a business. For example, Enron has now become a point that people point to when it comes to corporate ethical shortcomings. It is hard to say for sure why things at Enron happened the way that they did but one thing is obvious from the outside looking in. The stockholders did not seem to mind too much when the stock was growing at a fast pace. This then creates a dilemma many managers must face, how do they continue to satisfy the market while still conducting business in an ethical way?

Many if not all organizations must understand their ethical standing in the business world as well as the global world. The values that a company adheres to are how they will be best known.

At Omni Health Care, our management takes enormous pain to ensure that every employee knows what ethical standard can be expected of him or her. This includes what their responsibility is in ensure that they conduct business in a legal, ethical and socially responsible way. Most of this is done through training at lower-levels. While lower-level employees (below middle management) may seem to have a large role in how GEHC as a whole conducts business, they do have a large impact on the perception of how we do business. This makes it necessary for every employee to be trained too understand the company's expectation of behavior from every employee. This is also communicated through various town hall meetings, emails and articles on internal web pages from the senior management of Omni. This affords every opportunity for any employee from the assembler on the line to the Vice President of Operations to know, understand, and follow corporate policies. While it is easy to be suspicious of how leaders in high-ranking positions of the company truly feel or adhere to these policies themselves it does resonate at lower-levels.

In my position, I see many aspects of the of our business as it relates to manufacturing. Being a healthcare company, we are bound by many regulations by both the US government as well as governments around the world. This makes us particularly vulnerable to scrutiny for misbehavior. Whenever a project is planned, this scrutiny has to be kept in mind. We need to ensure that we comply with all the regulations that we are bound to at a minimum. In addition, Omni is a brand so we must keep in mind public perception, and whenever possible ensure we make efforts to conduct ourselves as a socially responsible company. This requires extensive testing, documentation, and other forms of proof that we do what we say we do. These rules are do in part, because we