Metodología para evaluar el nivel ético en las organizaciones/Methodology for assessing ethical level in organizations

• Published in: Ingeniare : Revista Chilena de Ingenieria Vol. 25; no. 1; p. 170
• Main Authors: Soler, Juan Antonio Plasencia, Delgado, Fernando Marrero, García, Miriam Nicado
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Arica Universidad de Tarapacá 01.01.2017
• Subjects: Business ethics; Management; Organizational behavior; Profit maximization
• ISSN: 0718-3291; 0718-3305

Nowadays Business ethics emerge as a referent in management into the organizations that want to obtain outcome in a competitive and globalized world, despite there are many companies that used these management methods for cover a top objective that is profit maximization. This research proposes through the methods: Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), and systems, standards and indicators proposed by various international institutions a methodology for assessing the ethical level in an organization. The methodology enables the construction of a hierarchy composed of dimensions, critical factors and indicators using the FMECA method, which allows to evaluate each of the elements according to their severity, occurrence and detection. The method is complemented when determining the weights of the elements through AHP using a basic scale of values. The proposed methodology determines the ethical level through the impact of its dimensions, and a fundamental scale evaluates the ethical behavior allowing to measure the effects generated by organizations in society, the environment and the economy.