Business Ethics Assignment: Ethical Dilemma
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Business Ethic
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3PART A...........................................................................................................................................3Ethical Dilemma..........................................................................................................................3Justification of Ethical Dilemma in business situation...............................................................5Solutions proposed after Dilemma..............................................................................................7PART B............................................................................................................................................9Please refer to attachment “seminar 4” and P.3 of “Project Brief” ..............................................10Please quote reference....................................................................................................................10Appendix B...............................................................................................................................11Appendix C...............................................................................................................................13REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14
INTRODUCTIONEthical Dilemma is situation where the individual is unable to take decision because thereis conflict between moral values of two people (Gustafson, 2013)In part A, the report willevaluate, business ethics which are required to followed in every organisation in order to avoidthe conflicts between management and employees. Moreover, The manager of the enterpriseshould monitor and control over all the ethical values that are part of firm. Hence, the reportanalysed that the business should maintain some moral values in order to give stableenvironment to its employees and management. PART AEthical DilemmaEthical dilemma is circumstance when there is debate between moral values of twoindividuals. Further, it can also be said that in this situation people are unable to determine theright and the wrong. Ethical dilemma is faced by the people in their both personal andprofessional lives. In this situation the person is unable to take decisions on the basic problems astheir moral values coincide. It is necessary for the individuals to understand the circumstance ofethical dilemma in order to understand the problem and their solutions. Moreover, the Dilemmacan be in any situation like, personal friendships, social dilemmas, business situation etc. Theethical dilemma further have several instances in context to business ethics. I am Lillee, a consultant in XYZ company, it is a consultancy firm. I am the personbeliefs and moral values because my father Johnson is an retired professor from ABC universitywhere he used to teach moral values and ethics to students in order to protect them from wrongdoings. I discuss my every dilemma and problem with him to reach and make effective decisionof my personal and professional life. My father taught me to stand by the right and ethical valueswhich he taught from the start, no matter what the situation is demanding at any moment. Aftermy graduation, I joined the XYZ consultancy because I believe that the firm works in ethicalsituation and have the security of their employees. In XYZ cameras are set all over to monitorover the functioning of every department.In my opinion, the advancement in the technologyassist the employers to monitor and review activities of staff members. Further, before doing incleared all the organisational practices and values to ensure effective and safe workingenvironment for me. However, with time I discovered that cameras are being misused by themanager of company and the surveillance in XYZ is nothing less than spying. Moreover, after
few months, my manager asked to provide fake and wrong consultancy services to students and Iwas amazed with this practice and providing wrong information to clients is beyond my moraland ethical principles. Further, with time I did not follow the unethical orders of my managerthan he scolded me personally and this was the situation when I learned that the misuse ofcameras in organisation (Trevino and Nelson, 2016). In addition, I discovered that manager caneasily access over my personal emails, history of internet browser and web connection which ishampering my personal space. The situation led to into two ethical dilemmas where I cannotoppose the camera surveillance in organisation but at the same time it was hampering mypersonal space. Apart from this, my moral values do not allow me to guide students the wrongpath just for the sake of making profits and good reputation in front of my manager. Apparently,if I will not follow the order of manger than he warned me that he will screw my career and willmake sure that I won't get job in any consultancy firm which is my dream.Hence, the situation led to business ethical dilemmas where XYZ Consultancy has setcamera in order to review the activities but it was effecting my personal space. In addition,guiding the wrong path to students to save my job and career was the another dilemma whichturned the situation worse I was worried and therefore when my father asked me the reason Ishared each and everything because he is the man of ethics and therefore he is the only one whocan suggest me the right ethical solutions which can save me in this situation. (Hamington andSander-Staudt2011). Justification of Ethical Dilemma in business situationEthical dilemma involves the sense is right and wrong in business. Organisational ethicsare the principles and morals which helps the individual in dealing with the problems ofprofessional life. Moreover, the business ethics are related to behaviour that the entity adheres inthe daily activities of the employees.Business ethics can come across in various situation likefinancial functioning of the firm for example, misleading of financial analysis, criminalmanipulation, corruption activities within the enterprise. Furthermore, in human resourcemanagement issues like, representation of employees, confidentiality of employee and employer,fairness of contract with the staff members. Apparently, there are ethical issues which can arisein sales and marketing department of the business like, price discrimination, price fixation, anti
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