Values, Ethics, and Collaborative Work: A UK Workplace Analysis Report

This report delves into the critical role of ethics in the workplace, emphasizing the importance of ethical conduct for individuals and organizations. It defines ethics, explores factors influencing ethical behavior, and highlights the significance of workplace ethics in fostering cooperation, maintaining a p...Read More

Values, Ethics and Working
Collaboratively

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................1
What is meant by the term ‘ethics’. What are the factors that influence ethics..........................1
Why workplace ethics are important in an organisation............................................................2
Two laws in UK that promote good ethical practice in an organisation.....................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................3
References........................................................................................................................................4

Introduction
In simple words ethics is a moral system guide by moral principles. Ethics of person
affect how they make decisions and lead their life. It is concerned with what is good for an
individual and society. Ethics also described as a moral philosophy.
Main Body
What is meant by the term ‘ethics’. What are the factors that influence ethics.
The term Ethics covers answers to few questions like; how to live good life, a moral
decision between good or bad, the rights and responsibilities. But most important question often
arise from where does ethics come from? Many philosophers have answer this. Some said, it is
the god and regional believe, some explains as it is the rational moral cost-benefit analysis some
says it is the human conscience or intuitions and much more (Marcus, 2020). But all sum-up to
one direction that is having good thoughts, intention and doing your best at anything is the
ultimate moral.
In business also the word ethics have become the trend word as the globalisation and easy
interconnection among people around the world through business communication have made
ethics as essential part of conducting business. There are numbers of factors that influence
ethical behaviours. Such as:
Individual Factor. An individual live in a society, follow particular religion and live a life-style
the spent, experience they have etc. that shape the individual's moral development (Stokes,
2015).
Organisational Factors. It is the key source of organisation influence is at what degree of
commitment of the organisation leader conduct its ethical code. This can be communicated
through any particular policy generation, publication or any direct communication etc.
legal factors . It is the framework that made by the governmental level to control the behaviours
of the citizen of the nation. This help the people to behave ethically to avoid any legal
constraints.
By considering the case like Facebook, where it is reported that the company use lot of
data that being use without the consent of user of the application. The violation of privacy
statement had lead Facebook to suffer multiple lawsuit against the company. The report
considered as one of the biggest scandal in cyber world.
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Why workplace ethics are important in an organisation.
Workplace ethics promote positivity, cooperation and teamwork in the organisation.
Ethics help in aligning the behaviours of the employees at workplace. As this create openness,
mutual trust and cooperation among employees. Workplace ethics emphasis on positive image in
the public. It is important for company to have good positive outlook in the society which benefit
them for long term perspective and also motivate its employee to keep up the work they are
performing. It also protect the company's assets from any unethical standards. When company
follow ethical code of conduct in their business they prevent their property from any fake or
unethical uses (How and Why Workplace Ethics are Important. 2021). Ethics help in providing
emotional security of the individual by applying proper laws and regulation that are made to
protect the organisational environment. The laws protect the employees from any kind of
harassment, exploitation or any other bias etc.
Social media when not managed effectively can open door for many risk that affect the
one's personal life for long time (Information Commissioner’s Office, 2019). When the case were
file against Facebook for not being ethical with their terms and conditions provided in their
application it raise thousands of questions in the mind of users. People tend to feel unsecure in
front of cell phone. It is now believed that the density of digital cultural heritage in a single
platform like Facebook and other platforms and of itself problematic, especially in view of the
risk of Facebook monopolising private and collective history of its users (Rahman, 2018).
Though the company promised as their platform offer encrypted from end to end of the users but
report from different sources confirmed that company is fail to do so. Facebook were at stage
where all the evidence support the public view on Facebook's misuse of data of its user and lead
to closure of the company. The company assumed following ethical stakeholders at potential
harm on Facebook closure:
 Dependent communities, i.e. industries that have developed through these platforms and
now they are totally dependent on Facebook existence.
 Existing Users, these are the people or groups who use this platform and maintain their
profile.
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 Non users, this include different sub-groups, including individuals who do not have an
account but whose data Facebook nevertheless collects and tracks from apps or websites
that embed its services.
 Future generation, in this group where it is assumed that upcoming generations who may
miss the opportunity to use Facebook's facilities during their time.
Two laws in UK that promote good ethical practice in an organisation.
The two laws are mentioned below which promote good ethical practice at Facebook Co.
 Data Protection Act. 2018, which control the user's personal informations used by
organisation, businesses or government. The act is the UK's implementation of the
general data protection regulation (GDPR). Under this act everyone responsible for using
personal data has to follow strict rules called ‘data protection principles'.
 The Equality Act 2010 legally protects people from any kind of discrimination at
workplace and in society. The act was replaced previous anti-discrimination laws with a
single Act, making the law easier to understand and strengthening protection in some
situations. The law was set in order to protect people from different ways in which it
unlawful to treat someone.
Conclusion
From above report it can be conclude that ethics of the individual' shape their character
and control their behaviours by providing some basic moral. Ethics is the ultimate guiding tool
that individual need to have at all level and use them at all level. Good ethical practice is the key
to success whether an individual work at large organisational level or maybe a common man
spending their life.
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References
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Stokes, P. 2015. Deletion as second death: The moral status of digital remains. Ethics and
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Information Commissioner’s Office. 2019. Statement on an agreement reached between
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