Organizational Constraints and Possibilities regarding Codes of Conduct

Autor/inn/en	Bray, Nathaniel J.; Molina, Danielle K.; Swecker, Bart A.
Titel	Organizational Constraints and Possibilities regarding Codes of Conduct
Quelle	In: New Directions for Higher Education, (2012) 160, S.73-87 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0271-0560
DOI	10.1002/he.20038
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Stakeholders; Ethics; Professional Associations; Institutional Characteristics; Norms; Social Change; Organizational Change; Organizational Theories; Organizational Culture; Barriers; Performance Factors; Behavior Standards + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ethik; Normwert; Sozialer Wandel; Organisationswandel; Organisationstheorie; Unternehmenskultur; Leistungsindikator
Abstract	Fundamentally, ethical codes take on the most troublesome of behaviors related to academe and present ways for individuals to behave in the face of pressures and uncertainties. They represent the ideals of various stakeholder subgroups and even mediate key institutional relationships. Codes can also exist at different organizational levels in higher education, including professional association, institutional, and intra-institutional. Although they provide a stable set of ideals to which a given population can aspire, codes and their status appear to have changed over time. The existence of codes within and across diverse constituent groups suggests that the higher education community deems them both important and useful in the practices of university teaching, scholarship, and administration. Drawing upon research from higher education, specifically, and organizational studies more broadly, this article attempts to bring into focus a holistic view of higher education ethical codes from a scholarly perspective. The article reviews the rationale for ethical codes in a contemporary context of higher education and then provides an overview of the organizational principles underlying the development and functioning of the codes. The authors then look at the ways in which ethical codes have become organizational anchors for key constituent groups in higher education. Given these foundations for understanding the nature and evolution of ethical codes, the article concludes with a discussion of how codes of ethics are constrained in some ways by institutional structures and yet show promise for what they can offer. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10