ETHICAL DILEMMAS REPORT 2022

Reading Head: ETHICAL DILEMMAS 0
Sociolo
gy
April 15
2020

ETHICAL DILEMMAS 1
Should you report your friend at work who’s been stealing inventory?
My friend and I were working in a manufacturing company at the post of inventory manager.
We worked in this company for two years now. So the manager of the company has
developed trust in us. As we all know that inventory is the main and important part of the
organization and it is also valuable. As inventory managers, I and my friend know all the
internal details of the company. But it is in ethics that we are not allowed to disclose the
internal information of the company. But my friend has stolen inventory of the company.
There was a time when we both were involved in some important discussions regarding the
policies and strategies of the company. It is an important part because it is done after the
evaluation of the growth of the company (Gilani, 2017). On the other day, I got the news
that internal strategies and policies are leaked in the market. Then I thought that this
information is known to only employees of the company i.e. me and my friend. This was the
first time I have doubted him. Then after some time, my friend was telling me to steal some
inventory of the business so that by selling them to competitors of the company so that we
can earn some good amount of money from it. But I deny that it will affect my ethics and I
will not break the trust of the company and I also suggested my friend not to involve in such
activities.
There are some ethics of the company that have to be followed by every employee. It is
important to follow these ethics because there is some information of company that are only
known by employees of the company. If this information got leaked in the market company
will have to face consequences. These ethics are moral and legal in nature. In this situation
there was an ethical dilemma for me. But then I think that there are two options either to tell
senior authority about my friend or save my friend from this situation (Legal Dictionary,
2016). I have opted for option one it is because according to my ethics and ethical theory of