Ethical Issues - Zero Tolerance Against Unethical Behaviour

MANAGEMENT
BUSINESS ETHICS AND SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY

ETHICAL ISSUES 1
MEMO
TO: Kate Cullen (Chief Executive Officer)
FROM: Adam Smith (Organizational Manager)
DATE: January 27, 2020
SUBJECT: A zero tolerance against unethical behaviour
This is to draw in the attention of our CEO on our degrading organization culture. I wish to
acquaint every employee about the issue and its devastating impact on our personal selves
and our organization. I expect that the authority will offer require support and adhere to the
plan to maintain the ethical culture of our reputable organization.
From the past few months, I have acknowledged the ethical issue of ‘discrimination and
harassment’ in the workplace. Some employees of HR Department are not developing
positive behaviour with our culturally diverse employees. By personal observation and
through feedback, I have assessed that level of discrimination and harassment is rising in our
organization. It is affecting the mental health, work quality, working environment and
business reputation. In previous month, I have come across two cases where two talented and
skilled culturally diverse employees have resigned our organization due to this issue.
Additionally, I have received complaints from other employees that they are prone to
harassment from their colleagues. They are experiencing such unethical behaviour from
multiple employees. They are experiencing high depression and it is laying a direct impact on
their overall health. Therefore, they are experiencing health issues of headache, anxiety and
loss in appetite. This problem is making the employees lose their attention towards the work
and customers have to experience poor quality service. The rising problem is affecting
multiple stakeholders and it includes employees and customers.
Diversity is one of the success key our organization. It has assisted in building goodwill and
raising reputation of our organization in market and business world. As a responsible senior
of the organization, it is my duty to correct each employee on his/her wrong deed. Therefore,
I have framed a plan against harassment and discrimination.
I have made a feasible and effective complaint procedure to prevent and deal with harassment
and discrimination. The employee should communicate the issue within next 24 hours to our
respective senior named ‘Suzy Jackson’. Her team will quick look into the issue and provide
reasonable solution to the victim. All the employees will be provided with a ‘link’ on their
employee account. This link will directly connect the employee to the ‘Director’ of our
company named ‘Paul Winchester’. Therefore, one move towards harassment and
discrimination will put the employee’s job at risk. Any individual found indulgence in such
unethical behaviour will lose all the job benefits.