Free Assignment on Ethics and Sustainability

Running head: ETHICS AND SUSTAINABILITY
Ethics and Sustainability
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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Table of Contents
Part A...............................................................................................................................................2
1. Introduction..............................................................................................................................2
2. Identification of Issue 1...........................................................................................................2
3. Ethical Framework for addressing Issue 1 and Justification of Choice...................................2
4. Identification of Issue 2...........................................................................................................3
5. Ethical Framework for addressing Issue 2 and Justification of Choice...................................4
6. Conclusion...............................................................................................................................4
7. Reference List..........................................................................................................................5
Part B...............................................................................................................................................6
1. Introduction..............................................................................................................................6
2. Summary of Issues and Frameworks in Part A.......................................................................6
3. Reflection on the Future Workplace Behavior........................................................................7
4. Conclusion...............................................................................................................................9
5. Reference List........................................................................................................................10

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Part A
1. Introduction
Ethics and sustainability are referred to as the most vital and significant aspects for any
particular business. These are required for analyzing the sustainability of the business and
whether the business is following some of the most significant and important attributes for
business management (Crane et al., 2019). Social systems are well managed in the business and
as a result, the business obtains some of the most important and significant advantages without
much complexity and issue.
2. Identification of Issue 1
The first and the most significant issue that is being highlighted in the business for
dealing with ethics and sustainability is workplace discrimination in my organization of Telstra.
The business requires to be aware of different anti discrimination regulations and laws (Trevino
& Nelson, 2016). The management of Telstra does not require to receive a complaint from their
employee or customer to be fined to violate the disabilities act and rule. The disable people were
not given with proper chance in the company to deal with the issues and complexities. Moreover,
they had unsafe working conditions in their business and as a result, the employees were highly
dissatisfied with their jobs. Due to such discrimination towards disable employees, the
organization has also faced legal proceedings in their business (MacIntyre, 2016). Whistle
blowing is required in the business for such condition and hence Telstra has lost their fame and
name majorly.
3. Ethical Framework for addressing Issue 1 and Justification of Choice
The most suitable and significant ethical framework that could be extremely effective and
significant to deal with the ethical issue of anti-discrimination within this particular organization

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of Telstra Corporation Limited is the virtue framework. It is considered as the most significant
and important ethical framework for different organizations as it helps in building up the correct
and effective decisions for the entire company (Werhane, 2019). There had been issues related to
work place discrimination within Telstra and as a result, the decisions undertaken by the
management were ineffective and inappropriate, as compared to the rest of the company. The
virtue ethical framework, hence helps in understanding the character of the organizational
management and customers in the most effective manner. The management of Telstra has not
been of a good character and hence virtue ethics is not being followed by them. As a result, it is
unethical to maintain workplace discrimination.
4. Identification of Issue 2
The second distinct and important ethical issue that is being highlighted in my
organization of Telstra Corporation Limited is corporate espionage. The employer was at major
risk that the existing employees were stealing their vital information (Swanson & Frederick,
2016). As the employer, it is a telecommunication organization, it had been extremely vital and
significant for them to ensure that the data or information is highly unethical in nature.
Moreover, the data was clients’ data that were being utilized by different companies in direct
competition with the respective organization. As soon as the intellectual property was being
stolen, the management got the news that the existing employees have stolen the data and might
be using it for further unethical working (Barry, 2016). In spite of the fact that every employee
had signed a non disclosure agreement during the initiation of their services, these employees
have stolen the data for their own purpose.