This article review provides a comprehensive analysis of the article provides and tries to make a connection between the article and the class text. From the text, there are three pertinent issues that have been put into consideration in the chapter involve responsibilities of superiors in an organization. The first point put across is the source of different organizational pressures within an organization. This seeks to evaluate the team dynamics of an organization. The author further elaborates the appropriate remedies that can be employed to solve organizational pressure. The second point is the ethical autonomy of every employee within an organization. This captures expected code of conduct of every person within an organization. The third point articulates the core components of individual autonomy within an organization.
Article summary
The article provides an insight to the alleged illegal activities of Ben Arredondo a state representative. Arredondo is a sixty three year old democrat who changed parties to seek a legislative seat. He is also a former temple city council man. The article enumerates the illegal activities which include bribery, extortion, as well as, mail fraud. He was nabbed by employees within the civil service in collaboration with FBI agents. The FBI agents were working undercover through a company that was seeking contracts from the local government. The article captures the details of the activities of the fictional company and the different engagements between the company and the legislature. It was alleged that Arredondo received favors from the fictional company in exchange of support for development projects. This scheme incorporated several city staffers who were responsible for the release of confidential information to the fictitious company. The article further provides details on the Fiesta Bowl investigation process. The fraud claim was aimed at justifying the conflict of interest of the council when a subsidy of $6.45 million was offered to the insight Bowl. The article also offers an insight into the reactions of other officials towards the allegations against Arredondo and his subsequent indictment.
Insights
The case of Arredondo provides a clear insight in the implications of the contravention of the key aspects of ethics. Every public office holder is expected to safeguard the interest of the public. Moreover, the institutions and policies that they develop should have organizational goals that are congruent to these expectations. Organizational superiors bear the biggest responsibility to ensure that organizational goals take precedent over personal interests. It is clear that Arredondo focused on personal interests and not the development programs of the city. His personal interests had a significant influence on the organizational pressure. From the article, the reactions of different officials in the city and beyond indicate an eminent breakdown of the city’s development program at the expense of poor stewardship. As leader Arredondo should take individual responsibility of his actions and resign from his house seat. As a leader, he was expected to enhance the ethical practices within the team in city hall. On the contrary, he engaged in activities that compromised the work of the city hall (Cooper, 2012).
References
Cooper, T. L. (2012). The responsible administrator: an approach to ethics for the administrative role (Sixth ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
