Organizational Behavior

            Organizational behavior is the science of behavior. Often the people are challenged by their ethics. Ethical behavior is said to be the right and honorable behavior of a person. Organizational management is very important in health care; as several lives are dependent on it. One field of health care involves numerous lives of people. Health care involves; hospitals, clinics, pharmacist, doctors, nurses etc. Recently an incident happened related to health care management that a pharmacist was unable to complete the required order of medicines on time because of the shortage of one essential drug. At this point his ethics were totally challenged because he could have used some other drug as a supplement which could be a cause of several effects for the patients. The pharmacist was at the peak that he could take any step; either to use a supplement drug or let the order be lost and undergo a financial crisis. The ethical behavior of the pharmacist was to lose the order as the supplementary drug might be not that much beneficial to the patients. Every individual related to this field must work in an ethical behavior. This must happen because every other patient is totally reliable on the doctors and the pharmacist. One wrong order of medicine can cause serious and dangerous side effects to others. Health care must be in accordance with the organizational behavior because many changes have been present in the past in this industry. These changes must be informed to every individual by the managers. Health care is a very diverse industry. They must all coordinate and communicate with each other with the view of ethics and organizational behavior. (Borkowski, 2005).

The health care individuals should be very ethical towards their duty and responsibility. The health care individuals play a major role in the life of others. They should do not do any type of corrupt practice in their business. An ethics reviewer should provide compulsory information to pharmacists so that they would avoid incidents that can cause fatal effects to patients, and improve patient care and the patient safety. Managers need to communicate effectively to motivate the individuals towards the ethical organizational behavior. The pharmacist or any other related health care manager must be given an ethical education so that they would perform their duties ethically as many lives are dependent on them. (NABP) Thus organizational behavior is very important in the field of health care as one department of health is related to another, so every department individuals must perform their activities ethically.

            Therefore in my opinion organizational behavior and ethics are two important components in the health care industry. Many people are involved in this. A health care manager has a moral commitment towards his patient. The ethical principle of discretion confirms that patients could trust his health care source not to reveal any info that the patient has given in order to get cured. Ethical principle also involves that the manager must perform every precaution so that any mis-happenings would not occur. Many medical problems are the major issue of people. This all occur because of the disconnection between the behavioral science and the organizational management of medical care. The basic principles of organizational management present such features that help to improve the patient safety.

Works Cited

1. Borkowski, Nancy (2005). Organizational Behavior In Health Care. Jones & Bartlett Learning.
2.   (19 May, 2009). Researching the Development of an Ethics Course for Licensees. NABP http://www.nabp.net/news/researching-the-development-of-an-ethics-course-for-licensees-defeated-resolution-105th-annual-meeting      

Ethical Issues and Intellectual Properties

            In this informative essay the ethical issues related to business and intellectual properties will be discussed. Business ethics is the ethical behavior or those actions which are taken to lighten upon the human values. The business cannot declare itself as highly ethical company or organization if they dealt with people of non ethical values like to ignore the forced or child labor, to give productions in the sweatshops, to ignore or break the most vital laws or taking work from the employers having health issues or having work done in unhealthy environment. All the chain of business should be ethical in their behavior from the contractor to the sale agents. Business ethics is also termed as corporate ethics; this observes the basic principles of the environment. It influentially determines the fundamental purpose of the business.

Ethical issues often arise from the intellectual property; intellectual property actually refers to the protection of the ideas or creativity of a person. It can be copyright or industrial trademark. Copyright refers to the protection of literary or artistic works while patents, trade secrets and trademark are the protection of the goods or other products in the business. It legally occurs to prevent the loss of profit from the original person, who has created a unique idea or thing in his set of mind. It is the protection of non-tangible property. 

Ethical issues arise in every company or in every business. It should be the owner’s responsibility to work according to the laws of the intellectual property. The ethical issues arise from how the group member contribution should be rewarded or measured. Many stakeholders arises ethical issues for decision-making. Business ethics demand positivity from a customer and it also increases new ethical investors.

A case can be studied such as a pharmaceutical company has invented a drug or any vaccine against a disease now the company wants to put a patent towards it so that no one could know how it is made and what are the ingredients used in it. The company makes the drug their intellectual property. This is an ethical issue as if the company would tell the secret of the making of that vaccine many other companies will also try to make that drug; and even if any one is successful in making that vaccine whole lot of people will be benefited from it. Many patients will get medicine in low rates as not every company medicines are affordable to common man. How could the rights of the pharmaceutical company be protected if the people are not benefitted from it? (Illinois Institute of Technology, 2012)

In some other cases also like if anyone has written a book or have done research on some thing, it is the right of the person that all the benefits of that book or research will go to him. All the popularity gained from the thing should only belong to the owner or the writer. This can only be done to protect their intangible property. This is done by putting a trademark or copyright over that thing. This ensures that only that person who has copyrighted it had the power to copy the information from it. Now in doing a business it is not only important to make the decisions legally but also ethically. Only the person who has copyrighted it has the authority to give away the information or to use that info. It is the responsibility of the company or any business to make their work and behavior as ethical as possible. (S. K. Mandal, 2010)

It is very important to protect one’s intellectual property. Only this protection can make one’s property (i.e. his ideas, concepts, designs and inventions) as his own for a lifetime.  Protection is a vital component for one’s success. Intellectual properties are the things, which are valuable to you, they are the achievements of people who had worked hard and these should be protected from any type of theft. There are a number of ways by which, IP can be protected; to protect an IP is very important. This can be by copyright, trademark, patent or trade secrets. Copyright is the protection of written or artistic for of work like, novels, journals, articles, poems or songs. Patent is the protection of tangible things this is done by the government. Trademark is used to protect the rights of the association with services or products. Trade secrets are to cover the formulas patterns or device. It is covered by the states. These protections are made to ensure that the idea, design or any concept is a person intellectual property and it should not be used without the authority of that person.(Homer, 2008) 

Public goods are those goods in which when one uses it, it does not mean the availability of that good is reduced to the other person. Content producers are the investors who work online through different websites. 

                                                   References

Illinois Institute of Technology (2012), retrieved from, http://guides.library.iit.edu/content.php?pid=85516&sid=636357

S. K. Mandal (2010), Ethics in Business & Corp Governance, Tata McGraw-Hill Education

Homer Alfred Neal, Tobin L. Smith, Jennifer B. McCormick (2008), Beyond Sputnik, University of Michigan Press