Business Ethics: Challenges for International Students in Australia

This essay delves into two significant ethical issues confronting international students in Australian universities: cultural diversity challenges and job market disparities. The author identifies instances of bullying and racial comments stemming from cultural differences, proposing ethical frameworks th...Read More

Running head: BUSINESS ETHICS
Business Ethics
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Introduction
The purpose of this essay is to determine two of the most relevant ethical issues that are
prevalent in the Australian universities when international students come to Australia for the
studies (Banks, 2015). The students face lot of problems due to certain reasons. These problems
will be discussed here along with the ways of how these issues can be resolved. These issues are
very important in the context of the benefit of the international students in Australia.
Identification of Issue One
The first issue that has been selected is about the cultural diversity that the international
students face in the Australian universities. It has been seen several times that the international
students have been the victims of the cross cultural diversity issues in Australia. The
international students have to handle several complicated challenges in Australia whenever they
are admitted in the universities. They become the victims of bullying and racial comments by the
native Australians when they attend the classes or attend the seminars (Ahmed, 2012).
The international students are often not habituated with the cultures when they enter the
university premises and mix with those students. This is why they have no clue when they are
bullied and racially harassed (Banks, 2015). They have to tolerate this kind of psychological
ragging in the universities and become mentally very weak. Some students have to leave the
university when this torture goes beyond their tolerance level.
Ethical framework for addressing the issue
The importance of ethics is very much important in this context since this ill practice in
the Australian universities should be stooped. It is because this kind of ill practice affects the

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reputation of the university in negative manner as well. In this issue, the Australian students
should be taken different sessions with the professors on how to behave with the international
students (Bochner, 2013). They should be taught that these international students are their guests
and they should be treated with proper respect. Their behavior will be important as it represents
the overall reputation of their university as well as of their country of Australia. They should be
warned by the professors that no incident of racial abuse or bullying the university premises
would be entertained. Strict actions would be taken against the guilty and they might be
rusticated as well.
Identification of issue two
The second issue that has been chosen in this aspect is that of providing added facilities
to the native Australian students in the job market. According to the critics, the Australian fresh
graduates are always preferred and given the upper hand when it comes to job distribution. The
international students are only the second choice in this scenario (Bochner, 2013). Their skills
and capabilities are overlooked and less meritorious Australian students are given the
opportunity to bag the jobs. The statistics have shown that the international students generally
contribute almost $19 billion to the Australian economy but less than 50% of them have got the
jobs in the Australian firms (Banks, 2014). The merits and skills of the international students are
completely overlooked and ignored as a potential employee. However, some managers of the
Australian firms are of the opinion that it is very risky to employ the international students than
the local ones (Altbach, Yudkevich & Rumbley, 2015).

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Ethical framework for addressing the issue
The ethical standards must be set when the organizations will go on to employ the fresh
graduate students in their firms. The managers must not fear about the outcomes when they
recruit the international students in their firms (Herzberg, 2017). They should only provide them
with the arrangements for their living and food. They will deliver their best efforts to attain the
objectives of the company. However, the company must stress on the individual skill, merit and
their capacities over the nationality of the student. The fair recruitment policies should be
encouraged in all these Australian organizations. Otherwise it will be difficult to provide the
Visa to the international students (Herzberg, 2017). The internship programs could be arranged
providing the international graduates with the equal opportunities. The equal opportunities will
always give the international students with the proper motivation. Thus they will perform better
in the midst of their local graduate competitors.
Conclusion
The conclusion to this paper can be drawn in a manner that the ethical issues in the
Australian universities have been increasing and remedies to this problem should be found
properly. The problems should be solved to keep up the good reputation of the universities. The
equal opportunities should be given to both the local and international students. This will create a
better Australian society with much diversity.

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Banks, J. A. (2015). Cultural diversity and education. Routledge.
Bochner, S. (Ed.). (2013). Cultures in contact: Studies in cross-cultural interaction (Vol. 1).
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Herzberg, F. (2017). Motivation to work. Routledge.