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MBA8000 - Applied Business Research and Ethics Dilemma

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Applied Business Research and Ethics (MBA8000)

   

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MBA8000 -  Applied Business Research and Ethics Dilemma This is due to the notion that only female colleagues are sexually harassed and the cases of men being harassed at the workplace are very less, if not negligible.At this time period, I had an ethical dilemma of confronting Becky in front of everyone or choosing to stay silent. Even though these events had transpired before me, I did not do or say anything, as I felt that if I said anything, both Becky and John would be embarrassed and even insulted. 

MBA8000 - Applied Business Research and Ethics Dilemma

   

University of Southern Queensland

   

Applied Business Research and Ethics (MBA8000)

   Added on 2020-03-04

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(NAME AND STUDENT NUMBER)2ContentsPart 1: Ethical Dilemma...................................................................................................................3Part 2: Analysis of Ethical Dilemma...............................................................................................3Utilitarianism...............................................................................................................................3Deontology theory.......................................................................................................................4Virtue Ethics................................................................................................................................5Part 3: Reflection.............................................................................................................................5References........................................................................................................................................7(COURSE CODE AND ETHICS)
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(NAME AND STUDENT NUMBER)3Part 1: Ethical Dilemma Recently, at my workplace I came across an issue of sexual harassment, where unlike the common cases, the female colleague came and pinched at the backside of her male colleague. This took place when we all were standing in the cafeteria and having our coffees. Becky came and pinched on the backside John and I saw this incident. However, the other did not see this event. I felt very uncomfortable as I could clearly see that John was not happy about such behavior. I had a word later on with him and he told me that Becky has done such things in the past and he was not sure if making a case of sexual harassment against her would be upheld. Thisis due to the notion that only the female colleagues are sexually harassed and the cases of men being harassed at workplace are very less, if not negligible. At this time period, I had an ethical dilemma of confronting Becky in front of everyone or chose to stay silent. Even though these events had transpired before me, I did not do or say anything, as I felt that if I said anything, bothBecky and John would be embarrassed and even insulted. I am happy with my decision and would rate myself an 8 for this decision, as I underwent a lot of consideration before making this decision of not taking any action. Part 2: Analysis of Ethical DilemmaThe sexual harassment incident which took place at the workplace of the writer was something which can be best deemed as unethical, if not unlawful; even though there are laws in the nation which make such behavior illegal (The Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission, 2017). In the following parts, the incident being unethical, on the basis of different ethical theories has been elucidated. In this regard, the normative ethical theories have been applied. The three theories applied here include the utilitarianism theory under the consequentialism, the deontology theory and virtue ethics (Smith, 2008). UtilitarianismUtilitarianism is amongst the leading ethical theories, based on which, the best action in any situation is that through which the utility is maximized (Bykvist, 2010). This theory has been (COURSE CODE AND ETHICS)
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