These ethics translate into what is considered acceptable and unacceptable behavior in society or place of employment. DLA’s mission comprises the “development of strategy, policies, procedures, programs, and oversight for strategy management and governance; policy management; risk & controls assessment and process improvement as well as the Director’s special interest” (Defense Logistics Agency, 2015). The code of ethics for employees of the Federal Government is quite extensive as codified in 5 C.F.R. Part 2635 as amended at 76 FR 38547 (July 1, 2011) which is over 80 pages in length. The code outlines the basic obligation of the employee obligations of being in public service which is to serve the government and people of the U.S. within the laws of the U.S. The code defines rules on accepting gifts from outside sources and between employees to prohibiting conflicts of financial interests from an employee when conducting DLA business. The ethical codes that are not written include common courtesy to customers, contractors and fellow employees; honesty, and integrity. According to Jones (2013) rules and laws are developed to promote good business customs for the entire organization. An organization’s code of ethics cannot cover every scenario that might occur and employees are to use the code of ethics as a base to establish when in a …show more content…
My personal experience was a few years ago when I was acting as the Termination Contracting Officer (TCO). I was responsible for terminating contracts when the contractors were not fulfilling their contracts due to delinquency status or by providing faulty parts that were unusable and refused to provide replacements for the defective parts. It was my responsibility as the TCO to either to have the supplies delivered or terminate the contracts; since the supplier was not fulfilling their contracts I ended up terminating over $5 million in contracts. I received a monetary award for this achievement in releasing the funds to be used for other supplies within DLA. A divisional award system is given to employees for recognition on a job well done during competitions for reducing delinquencies or awarding contracts by giving employees paid time off. The overall relationship of the organizational objectives to the award system is based on supplying our military customers with the parts needed to maintain their equipment in combat and noncombatant situations; and management emphasizes the importance of assuring that our customers receives the required parts and when anyone goes above and beyond their normal duties to ensure our military received the parts they are either recognized through a monetary award or