University of Wollongong MGT301A: Ethics and Sustainability Report

This report delves into ethical decision-making within the workplace, focusing on two key issues: potential job losses due to business competition and a CEO's directive to withhold information about impending layoffs. The report identifies and analyzes these issues through the lens of ethical frameworks. It explores the rights approach, emphasizing the protection of moral rights, and utilitarianism, assessing actions based on their consequences. The report then provides a comprehensive overview of ethical frameworks, their application, and their impact on individuals and organizations in navigating complex ethical dilemmas. The report provides a detailed analysis of ethical issues and their impact on the workplace, offering insights into how ethical decisions are made. It also highlights the importance of considering ethical frameworks when addressing organizational challenges. The report references relevant literature to support the analysis.

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Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................2
Identification of Issue 1.......................................................................................................2
Ethical Framework addressing the issues 1 and Justification of Choice.............................3
Identification of Issue 2.......................................................................................................3
Ethical Framework addressing the issues 2 and Justification of Choice.............................4
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................4
References............................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
The report provides two ethical, social, commercial, or environmental problems which
need to be managed by contemporary organization. The next section provides identification of
issues regarding the six ethical framework, which can help in managing the issues (Keown,
2005). It merely provides complete idea regarding ethical decision making in workplaces.
The coming pages deals with identification of two issues and suitable ethical framework
in order to tackle it. In addition the report provides justification of made choices.
Identification of Issue 1
The first issue is where the manager of the business employs around 150 people. During
casual conversation with an employee, the point has been highlighted that business is being
completely overtaken by competitor. In the upcoming days, the office will closed for a month.
Leaders need to develop some ethical standard which the employee of the organization need to
cover (Siddiqi, n.d). It will ultimately help the conversation to move towards the model in order
to decide the violation of the company.
Ethical decision making can be defined as method which help the individual in decision-
making with codes of ethic and resources like professional guidelines and organizational
policies. It merely focus any ethical solution for the given issue. Most of the people with this
organization spend huge amount of time for providing offices or job sites. Employee encounter
ethical dilemmas on regular basis in their workplace (Tännsjö, 2013). Some of common sense
and analysis can be used by employees to resolve dilemmas regarding job loss.

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Ethical Framework addressing the issues one and Justification of Choice
In order to tackle the given scenario, rights approach has been suggested where ethical
action help in protecting and respecting the moral rights. The approach merely begins from the
belief where human have dignity considering human nature. It completely based on the ability to
make free choice regarding what they can do with their life.
Considering this point regarding dignity, they come up with the right which should be
treated like end. It does not have any other way to end. Moral right is completely inclusive of
right for making the right choice about what kind of life it can lead to. Moral rights is inclusive
of rights to carry out decision-making regarding what kind of life it will lead to. This merely
focus on the privacy degree, which is widely debated. Even some of the people can argue
regarding the non-human rights.
Identification of Issue 2
In this case study, both staff and colleagues will lose their job. An approach has been
made during the CEO of business, and she makes confirmation of this. In addition, she orders to
not tell the present situation to anyone. If the other employee come to known this, they will
merely start for looking some other job (Velasquez, Andre, Shanks, T. & Meyer, 1990). This
particular will distract the employees in distraction from their day to day job.
In this case, I have made decision considering the provided scenario. Most of the
individual are required to make decision-making within this business-environment. Working for
this organization merely requires a suitable ethical model or even framework needed for decision
(Yu, Tao & Ivanhoe, 2010). Ethics in business, merely highlights any kind of unacceptable
behavior which the organization are expected to see from their employees.

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Ethical Framework addressing the issues 2 and Justification of Choice
In this case scenario, ethical theories are completely based on the ability for predicting
the consequence of any given action. For a utilitarian, the complete choice provides much better
decision-making for most of the people who are ethical correct. There are mainly two kind of
utilitarianism that is act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism (Perrett, 1998). The point should be
noted that act utilitarianism where person carry out benefit for most of the people.
Both kind of utilitarianism come up with drawbacks. The point should be noted that
people can make use of life experiences for analyzing the suitable outcomes. One can easily be
certain regarding his or her prediction, which is very much accurate (Velasquez, Andre, Shanks,
T. & Meyer, 1990). The main target is all about achieving the maximum amount of good.
Conclusion
From the above pages, the point can be concluded that this report focus on ethical
decision making in workplaces. The report provides six approaches which are being used as the
way of decision-making. The report focus on identification of both ethics and sustainability, its
impact on day-to-day work experiences. A range of ethical framework, along with development
of ethical issues has been discussed. In addition, this focus on the ability for application of
framework, which highlights how both individual and organization can go for decision making.

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Perrett, R. (1998). Living Right and Living Well in Hindu Ethics (Ch 3), in Hindu ethics: A
philosophical study, (Monograph / society for Asian and comparative philosophy, no.
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Siddiqi, M. (n.d). Business ethics in Islam. Retrieved from
http://www.irfi.org/articles/articles_1101_1150/business_ethics_in_islam.htm
Tännsjö, T. (2013). Understanding Ethics. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press.(Ch 6:
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Velasquez, M., Andre, C. , Shanks, T. & Meyer, M. (1990). Justice and Fairness. Ethics, 3(2).
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