American Red Cross Ethics

Finding ethical people to lead any organization can be a very complicated process than involves many procedures. Therefore, thorough investigative techniques must be used to satisfy the concerns of all stakeholders especially when it’s a charitable organization like the American Red Cross. Additionally, depending on the size and magnitude of a disaster, there could be millions to billions of dollars changing hands through donations in a very short-period of time. Furthermore, one can easily conclude that only a few employees with leadership responsibilities, who have unethical motives, could simply mishandle donated funds for his or her own desires.

Nevertheless, some of the recent problems the American Red Cross has encountered with handling donation money involve thief from leaders for his or her own personal use, mismanagement after the September 11th terrorist attack, and the 2005 Hurricane Katrina Disaster. Furthermore, these tragedies have stuck in the minds of the average American citizens since its inceptions, and lot of it is due to the incompetent response that American citizens faced from the ARC and the federal government. Additionally, many believe that the ARC board members should investigated the potential leaders of the organization for possible unethical behavior before his or her hiring. However, after the September 11th terrorist attack, donations were taken for the victims’ families and the previous leaders operated as if part of the donated money could be used for other …show more content…
Furthermore, if the image of any charitable organization is tarnished due to fraud, thief, or mismanagement, donations will slowly stop coming in from donors to help-out in a disastrous situation. Therefore, one should not slight the need for an organization to place ethical behavior at the forefront of its ability to do business of any