Ethical Issues in the Organization

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ETHICAL ISSUES IN THE ORGANIZATION
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Introduction
The ABC company is estimated that the target of the company can be achieved if all
the workers work for the daily 8 hours shift. However, doing unpaid overtime has become the
culture of the company, and higher authorities are well aware of this practice. However, this
practice needs to be evaluated as workers are working overtime and they are not paid for their
extra contribution. The paper estimates the ethical dilemma associated with this practice
through the analysis of the framework.
IS IT MORAL TO EXPECT PROFESSIONAL WORKERS TO WORK BEYOND
THEIR TIME LIMIT?
Framewor
k
Company Employees Public Industry Clients
Benefits of
this action?
The company is
gaining more
productivity with
paying extra
money to the
workers.
The employees
are not getting
any benefits from
this action.
The public
group is not
getting any
benefits from
this action, as
the company is
making profit
from the
unpaid
overtime of the
employees.
The industry
is getting
benefits from
the respective
company, as
the company
is serving the
industry with
more
productivity
with less
cost.
The clients of
the
organization
are getting lots
of benefits
from the
organization,
as the
organization is
serving the
clients with
more
productivity in

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less time.
Harm
caused by
this action?
The company is
not facing any
harm from this
action.
The employees are
spending much
the , which exceeds
their working shift.
Their extra
contributions are
not getting paid,
and working for the
extra hours are
affecting their work
life balance.
Public group is
affected
negatively by
the action of
the company
There is not
harm occur
for the
industry.
The clients are
getting quality
service from
the
organization in
less time, so
they are not
affected
negatively
from this
action.
The effect on company:
The above table has two attributes and their effects on the five stakeholders associated
with the business of the company. The company is aware of the unpaid overtime done by the
workers. This payable over time of the workers are helping the company to gain more profit
wit using less manpower and less cost. These are increasing the profit margin of the
company. The ethical dilemma arises when the matter can be seen from the perspectives of
other stakeholders.
The effect on employees:
The employees are working after their shift time, and they are doing this to assure
their job security. According to Åkerstedt and Kecklund (2017), this article this behaviour

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indicates that the company policy is not sustainable enough and is not employee friendly. The
theory of the company plays a vital role in the growth of the company. This bad human
resource policy can lead to the internal conflict. The company is gaining a lot of profit from
the overtime of the employees. However, the benefits they are winning is on the short-term
basis. The Bohle (2016) states that the internal conflict and gradual increase of the
dissatisfaction of employees can bring down the productivity of the company. The company
may face other legal issues regarding the labour law.
Problems on both long term and short term basis:
The workers are working for the extra hours. The work life balance of the employees
is not justified. According to Ciocchetti ( 2016), it can be said, due to the improper between
family time and the working hour, the working quality of the worker may go down. The
decreasing level of the class will hamper the productivity of the company. The company can
face problem in the long run. The long term and short-term impact of doing overtime will
affect the personal lives of the employees. However, the company can achieve a significant
profit margin. However, this practice will make the company face lots of problems related to
productivity and the human resource management in the long-term basis.
Effect on people:
Another stakeholder involved in this process is people. The people will be affected
negatively by the working for the overtime. The practice is not sustainable for the people.
According to the ACS code of professional conduct, the people should be benefited from the
action or the exercise of getting a chance to improve the skills and enhancement of the quality
of life. Any practice should not harm the physical and mental health of people. The method of
doing overtime is hampering the health of the people working in the company. Apart from

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that, it is becoming a constraint in the development of skills and the quality of life of the
workers.
Effect on industry:
The nature of working for the extra hours is adding the flow of productivity in the
industry. The industry is getting benefits from the com[any. The increased productivity with
the quality is making the company to hold a good position in the industry, and the
competition is growing. In this situation, according to Clarke and Boersma (2017), the
company may enjoy the excellent position in the market, however, due to the internal
conflicts the company may lose its place in the market. The Cousino and Mednick (2016)
article state that, during the downfall of the company for the internal conflicts, there is no
such trend that the industry supports that company by its past goodwill.
Effects on clients:
Clients are one of the critical stakeholders in the process. The increased productivity
of the company helps the clients to get the most sorted out services in a short time span. This
can increase the goodwill and brand value of the company on the short-term basis. However,
it can be indicated that due to the policy of the organization internal conflicts may arise and
the productivity of the company may reduce in future, at that moment, according to Ko, Chin
and Hsu (2018) the clients will find another substitute of the company.
IS IT MORAL TO EXPECT PROFESSIONAL WORKERS TO WORK BEYOND THEIR
TIME LIMIT?
FRAME
WORK
THE
ORGANIZATIO
N SELLING
THE
INDIVIDUA
L STAFF
THE PUBLIC THE
CLIENTS
INDUSTRY/
PROFESSION

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PRODUCTS
AND SERVICES
Benefits if
this action is
Universalised
?
If the action of
doing unpaid
overtime is
universalised, all
the companies
will apply this
rule to the
employees in
order to increase
the productivity
and the selling
margin.
The staffs
and the
individuals
of all the
companies
will have to
serve unpaid
overtime,
none of them
will gain any
benefit from
the
universalised
of this
action.
The public will
not get any
benefit if the
universalizatio
n of this
practice takes
place.
The
clients
will get
the
continuou
s benefits
from this
action.
The industry will be
benefited as this practice
will hep to make the
market more competitive,
which will lead to the
more options for
innovation.
Harm if the
action is
universalised
?
The organization
will not face any
harm in this case.
The
individual
and the staffs
will be the
most
affected
stakeholders
if this action
is taken
place. All the
workers have
The public will
be affected
badly as the
this practice
will lead them
to the mental
stress.
The
clients
will not
get
affected b
y this
action
The industry will not be
affected by this action.

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to work for
the unpaid
overtime.
Working
Contradiction
If
universalized
?
It is true that
most of the
companies are
focus on the
profit margin.
However, some
of the companies
can take
initiatives for the
welfare of
employees by
maintain the
working shifts.
In that cases
they may have
the different
plans for
increasing the
profit margin
through better
human and
resource
management. In
that case, the
universal action
In case, if the
company, the
employees or
the
individual
working for,
impliments
the different
working
policy , in
that case the
employees
and the
individual
may have to
do the work
within the
working
shifts.
The people
will be
affected
positively and
negatively
depending on
the different
working
policies of the
different
companies.
The
clients
may get
mixed
result in
this case
Similarly, the industry
will get the mixed result.

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for doing
overtime may
not be followed
The organization:
The universal practice of this practice will help to gain all the companies around the
world to achieve a right margin of the profit. However, the gaining of the benefit will happen
on the short-term basis. The universal application of this practice will not harm them on the
short-term basis. However, the productivity of the company may be decreased in the long
term, which can affect the companies badly. According to the Khamisa et al.,(2016) in some
instances some of the companies may adopt different human resource policies to meet the
productivity level of the company. In that case, the company may permit the workers to work
only within the shift hours. The universal application of the unpaid overtime will not allow
this practice. On the other hand, many companies may want to provide the extra money to do
extra work, which can motivate the employees. The universal application will not permit this
either.
The individual staffs:
The personal team of every company has to do unpaid overtime in case id this
practice is universal. The workers will be much more affected in the short-term and long-term
basis. The working for the overtime will hamper their work-life balance. According to Kang,
Matusik and Barclay (2017), some companies adopt a different policy that does not allow
workers to work for overtime, in that case, the contradiction may happen. In that case, the
working condition for different individuals from the various organizations will be different.

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The public:
The universal adaptation of this practice will affect mostly the people. The people will
not get a chance for the self-development. Working for the extra time will become stressful
for them and will not give them an opportunity for the self-development. The people will not
get any benefit from this practice. Moreover, they will become the victim of the system, as,
according to the ACS code of professional conduct the people is the most critical stakeholder
in this process.
The client:
According to Johnson (2017), the client will enjoy a win-win situation if the universal
adoption of the unpaid overtime policy is taken in to the account. They will receive the high
quality of service from the most of the organizations. This will make the market competitive.
The Imeri et al. (2016) states the relation between the competition in the market and the
change of the price. According to this article, it can be assumed that the increase of the game
in the market will lower down the cost of the services, which will be beneficial for the clients.
The clients will enjoy this advantage for both long term and short term basis. In case, if the
contradiction happens in a matter for the different adaptation of the policies in different
companies, the clients will not suffer any problem in getting the service.
The industry:
According to Hanson and Mautz (2015), the industry will face the mixed result in the
universal adaptation of the practice. However, this will not affect the production in short-term
basis, because according to Guido (2014), the change in the policy for some of the
organization will not give a significant impact on the industry. However, changes can be seen
in the long-term basis.

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Frame work The
organisation
selling
products and
services
The
individual/staff
The public The clients Industry or
Profession
Used as
means of
end,
Violating
their rights
The
organization
will not see
the action as
the violation
of the rights
The individual
staffs will see
this action as
the violation of
the rights
The public
will take this
action as the
violation of
the rights.
The clients
may not
consider this
as the
violation of
rights as they
are the major
stakeholders
who are
getting the
benefits.
For the
industry this
will not be
violation of
the rights.
Frame work The
organisation
selling
products and
services
The
individual/staff
The public The clients Industry or
Profession
Violating
rights, seen
as unjust (to
powerless),
action-taker
The violation
of the rights is
happening in
this practice.
The
The individual
staff will
regarded this
practice as
unjust.
To the people
the this
practice will
be regarded
as unjust
The clients
will be the
one who will
get benefited
from this
The industry
will not take
this practice
as unjust as
this practice

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has
morepower?
organization
is the
implementer
of this
practice.
However, the
organization
may have the
manpower but
dong
unethical
thing by the
company may
not be
supported by
the most of
the people.
practice. To
them this will
not be a
unjust
practice.
will make the
industry
profitable.
The organization:
According to Enderle (2015), most of the organizations may not see the doing unpaid
overtime as the violation of the rights, as the primary objective of the company is to achieve
the maximum profit. The organizations have the workforce; however, according to the
Dessler, Cole and Chhinzer (2015), it is not assured that most of the people will support the
unethical practices of the company.
The employees:
The employees will see this practice as unethical

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The people:
This practice will be seen as immoral practice for the people as it does not support any
sustainability.
The clients:
The clients are the minor decision maker in this case, as they are only concerned with
getting the service.
The industry:
The industry will not consider this practice as unethical, as this practice will help to
achieve the industry to achieve its objective.
Summary
Frame work Organisatio
n selling
products
and
services
Individual/
staff
public clients Industry/
profession
Ethica
l
Benefits if
this actions
High profit No benefits No benefits Get huge
benefits
by
getting
the
services
done in
the right
time.
Gets huge
benefits
Not
ethical

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Harms
caused by
this action
No harm The most
affected
stakeholders
in the process
Affected
negatively
No harm No harm Not
ethical
Benefits if
this action is
Universalised
?
Het a huge
amount of
profit
Will become
main victim
of the process
Will be the
suffer in
this system
No harm No harm Not
ethical
Harm if the
action is
universalised
?
No harm The work life
balance will
be hampered,
will suffer
from stress
The
personal
developmen
t and the
quality of
life will be
suspended.
No harm No harm Not
ethical
Contradiction
If
universalized
Some
company
may adopt
worker
friendly
policy
Some of the
employees
will get good
working life.
The people
will face a
mixed
effect of the
contradictio
n
No harm No harm in short
term
Not
ethical
Used as
means of end,
Violating
their rights
Will not see
this action
as the
violation of
the rule
Will be act of
violating the
rights
Will be act
of violating
the rights
Will not
see this
action as
the
violation
of the
Will not see this
action as the
violation of the
rule
Not
ethical

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rule
Violating
rights, seen
as unjust (to
powerless),
action-taker
has more
power?
Company
has more
power, but
the
unethical
act will not
be approves
by the
majority
Employees
will referred
this act as
unethical
People will
referred this
act as
unethical
Client
may not
be the
importan
t
decision
maker in
this case.
Will not see this
action as the
violation of the
rule
Ethica
l
Client may not be
the important
decision maker in
this case.
Ethica
l
Conclusion
It can be said from the above discussion and analysis , that the practice of doing
unpaid overtime will is not an ethical practice. This will bring profit for the com[any in short
term basis, however, this is not a sustainable practice and company can face difficulties for
this kind of practice. It is recommended that the company needs to refine the working policy
and maintain the shift hour. In case if the overtime is needed to be done the company can
provide extra money for the extra working hours.