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Ethical Issues in the
Workplace

Recognition, Analysis, and
Resolution

One of the most beneficial exercises in a course exploring ethics is to develop a paper that allows you the opportunity to create connections between your professional view of ethics and applied ethical theories. The nature of ethical decision making is recognition, analysis, and resolution.

Your paper must explore a current ethical issue in your workplace. It can be a current or former employer, or someplace where you have volunteered.  Ideally, the issue that you explore is something related to your current or future career.

A few ideas for your consideration:

~ You work in HR, and one of your co-workers is using a social media platform, like Facebook, to spy on potential hires and remove those

~ You are responsible for enforcing a physical fitness/readiness standard for your employer. Due to your work responding to a catastrophe for the past month, many people have neglected their physical fitness.  How do you address the issue of physical fitness when the staff has not had the time to put into it?

~ Your co-worker has been consistently late for the past month unbeknownst to the supervisor. Reporting such behavior could mean that your co-worker is dismissed, or put on a performance improvement plan.  Yet, the co-worker is dealing with a personal tragedy because her 5-year-old son was diagnosed with Leukemia. Do you report?

~ You take a new hire on a sales call and meet with an executive at company X, your most important client. While your back is turned to grab something out of your briefcase, the executive fondles the backside of your new employee. What do you do to protect the employee yet preserve the relationship with the client?

This final paper is your opportunity to delve into a topic within the framework of ethics that you find interesting based on your approved topic and thesis statement.

For your submission, in the first paragraph, explain the issue in 3 sentences or less. Then, give the ethical dilemma, which is the identification of values that are in conflict.

The second paragraph should identify at internal and external stakeholders.

Select the topic of your final project and submit a two-paragraph write-up.

For your submission, in the first paragraph, explain the issue in 3 sentences or less. Then, give the ethical dilemma, which is the identification of values that are in conflict.

The second paragraph should identify any internal and external stakeholders.

This assignment is due Sunday 11:59 PM EST.