Ethical Consideration-Case Study

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Ethical Consideration-Case Study
Managers are constantly faced with ethical dilemmas that require moral standing to decide on
what is right and wrong. A manager has an obligation to act in a way that is acceptable and
appropriate to the company and subordinates respectively (Trevino and Nelson, 2016). To
achieve ethical sound decisions and actions, managers can adapt utilitarian, rights and duties, or
justice or fairness perspectives. The following write up discusses the decision and
recommendation of a course of action for a manager and employees where a manager takes
credit of an employee’s work that was does during company time a Janice and John case
scenario.
Ethical issues in the Case Scenario
There are several ethical issues in the case study. First, Janice, the boss wants to take credit of
John’s program. Janice wants to take full credit of a program that she did not create herself and
deny john the rights to his own work. The second ethical issue is that John used company’s time
to create the program. This means that john used the time resource of the company to create a
program that will give him personal benefits. The third ethical issue is that Janice wants to use
her position to threaten John if he objects her decision. The other ethical issue is that Janice
wants to bride John and gives him promotion and pay raise in order to agree to her decision.
Ethical Consideration
John is not being treated justly and his rights are not being protected. John has the intellectual
rights to the program and deserves credit. He needs to be acknowledged whenever the project is
being presented. Janice will be stealing John’s program if she does not give John any credit. It is
ethical for a manager to take credit for work of subordinate when the manager delegated the
work to the subordinate (Lawton and Páez, 2015). The manager can also take shared credit with
the subordinate because the employees used the company’s time.
Course of Action
Janice ethical course of action is dependent to ethical perspective that she uses. By adapting
utilitarian perspectives, Janice will give john full credit and present the package to her boss in a