MGT3044 Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
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Running head: BUSINESS ETHICSBusiness EthicsName of the Student:Name of the University:Author’s Note:
1BUSINESS ETHICSIntroductionBusiness ethics are the set of ethical principles and standard norms, which guide anorganization towards right direction (Chell et al. 2016). The set of ethical principles create asense of right or wrong among the organizational stakeholders, which guides them to perform asper the organizational code of conduct. This study will analyze the business ethics of Google asper the 10-pages memo written by one of the software engineer of the organization. The memo ismainly focused on gender discrimination at the workplace of Google. The study will identify the stakeholders in the memo and reveal their interest in the casestudy. The study will clearly indentify the ethical issue of Google as per the memo written by thesoftware engineer. Apart from that, the study will also discuss about the major environmentalfactors, which impacts or are impacted by the ethical issue of Google. Furthermore, the studywill link various relevant theories, concepts and practices on ethics and corporate socialresponsibility with the ethical issue of Google. Furthermore, the study will also suggest somesuitable recommendations to Google for overcoming the ethical issues. DiscussionStakeholders in an ethical dilemma are defined as the persons, who are affected by theunethical decision (Michaelson et al. 2014). In case of Google, the memo written by an unnamedengineer regarding the gender differences at the workplace has sparked a controversy within andoutside of the organization. As per the memo, Google has been claimed with under-representation of the women in the tech and leadership role. In this case study, the primestakeholders identified as the management, employees, media and employees.
2BUSINESS ETHICSAccording to Su (2014), the interest of management in such unethical decision is tokeep the women away from the leadership role because of their biological difference from themale employees. The management of Google is also in the midst of a Department of Laborinvestigation, which is checking that whether or not the organization is paying less to the womenemployees than the male employees are. Moreover, Giacalone and Promislo (2013) stated thatthe management intension over here is to minimize the overall cost of the organization by payingless to the women employees. Furthermore, the intension of management behind suchdiscrimination is to utilizing the preferences of male employees in the coding areas andpreferences of women employees in social and artistic areas. In the case study, the interest of themanagement is also heighted as protecting the company reputation in the market by firing theengineer, who has written the memo. Women employees are also important stakeholders in this ethical dilemma of Google. Asper Fernando and Moore (2015), the usual interest of women employees in this organization isto get fair and equal treatment in every aspect of their job role. They actually expect anenvironment, which is free from any political bias and discriminatory views regarding gendergaps. However, in case of the ethical dilemma of Google, the women employees are beingundervalued in the technological and leadership role. Furthermore, the memo of the engineer hasalso highlighted the sexual harassment of the women employees at the workplace. Therefore, theinterest of the women employees is actually being harmed by this unethical genderdiscrimination of Google. On the other hand, Floyd et al. (2013) opined that despite of thepolitical bias in Google; some employees have supported the memo of written by the engineer. Inthis context, the interest of the employees has been found to protect the interest of the womenemployees to get equal value and treatment at their workplace.
3BUSINESS ETHICSMedia is also an important stakeholder in the case study regarding the ethical dilemma ofGoogle. The interest of Media in this case study is to highlight the unethical employmentpractice of Google to the public. Beets, Lewis and Brower (2016) opined that the interest ofmedia in Google’s gender discrimination case is to make the people aware of its unethicalemployment practices. On the other hand, Kaptein (2017) stated the interest of the engineer,who has written the memo, is to express the concern for the women employees. Moreover, theinterest of the engineer is to explore and leak out the unethical gender discrimination of Googleso that the women employees can get their right value. The 10-page memo written by the software engineer of Google has highlighted theethical issues of the organization in terms of gender gaps at the workplace. According to BBCNews (2017), Google has been alleged in the memo that it discriminates among the gender of theemployees. Moreover, the organization underestimates the women employees in technologicaland leadershiproles. Moreover, the organization discriminates among the males and femaleemployees based on their preferences and abilities because of their biological causes. In this way,the organization is actually violating the anti-discrimination laws, which is causing ethicalbreach. On the other hand, Booth and Hern (2017) opined that Google also under theinvestigation of Department of Labor investigation, which is investigating over gender paygaps the organization. Moreover, it has been claimed in the memo that the Google actuallydiscriminates among the male and female employees by paying male employees quite more thatthe female employees. It is obviously sign of unethical employment practice in the organization. As per the Equal Employment Opportunity Act, both male and female employees of anorganization should be treated equally in regards to their payment, rewards, leadership positionand others. However, Eandt.theiet.org (2017) opined that male employees have blocked 69% of
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