Your Questions About Team Building Activities For The Workplace

Addiction in the Workplace….?

My boyfriend is very close to becoming a business owner and running his own office. He has a team of people working for him now and needs only 2 more solid business partner before relocating and opening his own office in Toronto.
It’s a young group of good looking, motivated business people. My boyfriend is 36, and the people who are his team members are 23-28. Also most of them are single except for 1 of the guys I think. So basically drinking plays a major part in their after work activities. I understand its a social thing to do and in moderation is OK.
However my boyfriend has always had a drinking problem as long as we’ve been together, so I find this an extremely lethal mix for him, because he will NEVER turn down a chance to go out drinking, and it seems like EVERY night his team wants to have a few drinks after work.
At home my boyfriend and I have many problems surrounded around drinking, but because he uses business as an excuse for drinking he thinks its justified behavior and not a big deal and necessary for team building.
I agree there needs to be time outside of work for team building purposes but I also feel Alcohol is really high risk activity to be mixing with business. In my opinion when it’s the boss who has a problem, from a corporate perspective, it destroys morales and sets the standard for unacceptable behavior from other members of top management.
If my boyfriend wants to run his business successfully I feel the drinking needs to be eliminated, especially for my boyfriends sake. I feel he will fail running his own business if he doesn’t set the right example now that drinking with co workers and business partners regularly (not on special occasions) is going to destroy everything he has worked so hard to get.
My boyfriend has told me he isn’t going to drink anymore, we had a major fight this weekend and he said “I can’t do this anymore… drinking causes way to many problems in our relationship and I don’t want to lose you over it” … I’m hopeful, but he has said this before, and as time goes on and he forgets what we fought about and things get better, he’ll justify drinking “sometimes” and will think because he was good for a while that he should be trusted to drink again etc. (typical alcoholic behavior)
Anyway, how can my boyfriend get the message across to his business partners that the regular drinking is NOT appropriate for business even though he’s allowed this behavior for so long?
Also after work his business partners tend to encourage him to join them for drinks after work, how can he say no without coming out and saying “I’m not drinking anymore because I have a problem”. I know he feels his ego will be crushed if he has to tell people he isn’t drinking anymore because of a problem, but if he doesn’t say its because he has a problem then his business partners think its because I’ve got him whipped.

HELP PLEASE!!!

I need help with my homework…Can you please help?

1. Which employee action constitutes a misuse of company resources?
A. The sales manager for a company gave a printing job to a friend’s business because the friend offered the lowest bid on the job.
B. A human resources officer scheduled a week-long outdoor adventure activity as a team-building exercise for mid-level managers.
C. The CEO of a company scheduled a meeting of the board of directors in a popular city even though it was across the country from the city that homes the company headquarters.
D. A foreman took a construction crew to work on a landscaping project at the foreman’s private property after finishing a project early that had paid the labor costs for the crew.

2. An individual works at job A during the day and also teaches night classes at job B. While working at job A on a company computer, the individual receives instant messages from night class students and communicates with the students as requests arrive rather than waiting until the night class begins. Why is this inappropriate?
A. The individual should use email to communicate with the students.
B. The individual should only answer instant messages during breaks.
C. The individual could inadvertently send confidential information about job A.
D. The individual is using job A’s resources to perform duties for job B.

3. How can implementing an ethics program encourage organizational integrity?
A. Unethical and illegal behavior will no longer occur.
B. Short term business goals and organizational outcomes are aligned.
C. Mid-level managers can develop departmental codes of conduct as needed.
D. All employees are given ethics training and a copy of the company’s code of conduct.

4. What is a benefit of an effective ethics program in the workplace?
A. Eliminating theft within the company
B. Ensuring that employees understand the company’s values
C. Allowing a surveillance system to be put into place within the company
D. Allowing company officers to avoid personal liability for ethical violations

5. For an organization to develop an effective ethics program, the position of ethics officer is often created. What is a key responsibility of an ethics officer in developing an ethics program?
A. Developing and distributing a code of conduct
B. Defining and distributing a description of the organizational culture
C. Interviewing employees to determine corporate ethics compliance
D. Interviewing managers and directors to determine corporate ethics compliance

6. What is an essential role that top management plays in developing an effective ethics program?
A. Developing and implementing a financial auditing program
B. Providing information and setting the right tone for employees
C. Interpreting and supporting regulatory requirements for ethics programs
D. Directing the organization toward short-term goals versus long-term goals

7. Which method of assessment can develop benchmarks for compliance with ethical standards?
A. External audits
B. Employee exams
C. Training attendances
D. Employee questionnaires

8. What is a purpose of ethics training?
A. To influence board participation in day-to-day operations
B. To improve the employees’ ability to identify ethical issues
C. To reduce the need for understanding basic legal requirements
D. To expand employee penalties for ethical misconduct in the organization

9. How does a formal code of conduct affect the way an organization does business?
A. By describing organizational expectations for all employees
B. By forcing the organization to meet minimum legal requirements
C. By resolving every ethical issue that is encountered on a daily basis
D. By providing a formal method for reporting ethical violations to governmental agencies

10. A manufacturing worker becomes ill due to conditions in the workplace. The worker’s manager determines that the production process must be fixed regardless of the cost to the company.

The manager is exhibiting which type of moral principle?
A. Teleology
B. Utilitarianism
C. Deontologism
D. Relativist perspective