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- Title
Ethics in Knowledge Management to monitor the Quality of Food Products.
- Authors
ŞERBANCEA, Floarea; STĂNESCU, Aurelia; LAZĂR, Valentin
- Abstract
The paper addresses an issue of great interest and more current than ever: ethics in monitoring the quality of food products. When the regulations in a given area are not unitary at EU level, the lack of ethics can be a risk factor in assessing and monitoring compliance. The preferential application of quality standards, sampling procedures and testing, at preference of the system operator, can generate "double standards". As in any complex field, knowledge must be properly managed. The ethical behavior in monitoring food quality should exclude: falsification of data obtained from food testing; counterfeiting of product quality evaluation reports; selection of biased criteria for product quality monitoring; deliberate distortion of results interpretation and deformation of the conclusions of the monitoring reports; concealing the conflict of interest; erroneous recording and/or storage of the results. It is a proven fact: ethical codes are more effective where and when used in conjunction with employee training programs, those aimed at strengthening the ethical values of the organization. Ethical training programs can provide a number of benefits: they enable the strengthening of the standards of ethical behavior within the organization, they facilitate the reunion of employees in the training sessions, which induces them the feeling that they are not alone in confronting with ethical dilemmas, especially in the cases when unpopular but ethically correct decisions are required.
- Subjects
KNOWLEDGE management; PRODUCT quality; FOOD quality; QUALITY standards; EMPLOYEE training
- Publication
Quality - Access to Success, 2018, Vol 19, Issue 167, p159
- ISSN
1582-2559
- Publication type
Article