Global Training Solutions (GTS) was founded 40 years ago by an educator/consultant/trainer to provide training to business employees, consulting services to businesses and school systems, and in-house training of trainers. He was renowned as an ethical and values-driven leader who helped the company grow. The founder retired ten years ago, and the company began to change.

The current organization continues to claim the following values statement passed down from the founder 40 years ago:

We value our employees, who work with integrity, putting forth their best efforts to provide high-quality services to our clients.

Over the years this training and consulting firm has been fairly successful until the last seven years, when the company's growth and profits began to languish. Several executives who were followers of the founder were pushed out (i.e., forced to retire) around that time. Recently two consultants were fired for dishonest billing to clients. These occurrences deeply affected the company's reputation and employee morale.

Executive management has tasked you, director of consulting services, with finding a means of re-instilling the values of the founder throughout the organization. They also have tasked you with creating a plan to instill ethical behavior throughout the company.

Checklist:

• Describe both thecurrentethical climate and thedesiredethical climate based on ethical climates of organizations.

Then choosingeither: "Traditional Definition of Good",or "ethical approaches":

• As the director of consulting services, explain how you will use leadership to instill values and ethics and reinvigorate morale at this company.
• Explain what type of leadership power you would apply to instill values and ethics at GTS.
• Explain which personnel you will interact with to support your task (president, ceo, VP, HR, marketing). Explain how you as the Director of consulting services will apply the three elements of the art of persuasion to elicit their support.
• Distinguish between the different ethical perspectives you consider related to your task in this scenario and to the founder's value statement.
• Discuss an original code of ethics for this business incorporating the theoretical perspective(s) you chose in line with company values.