Exploring Human Dignity in Business: Ethics and Workplace Dynamics

This essay delves into the multifaceted concept of human dignity within the context of modern business operations, emphasizing its critical role in fostering ethical practices and maintaining a productive work environment. It examines how human dignity, defined as the inherent and inalienable value of every individual, is essential for creating a workplace where employees feel respected, valued, and empowered. The essay explores various challenges to human dignity, including issues related to employee monitoring, working conditions, and the ethical implications of information technology, particularly concerning privacy and the use of visual content. It stresses the importance of organizational policies that limit the potential misuse of technology and promote self-censorship to protect human dignity. The essay concludes by advocating for a proactive approach where businesses prioritize ethical behavior, employee awareness, and the constrained application of technology to ensure human dignity is upheld within the business information system and overall workplace culture. The essay uses cited references to support its arguments.

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Running head: Human dignity
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SELF AND COMMUNITY: EXPLORING THE ANATOMY OF MODERN SOCIETY
The dignity of human person is a social occurrence that forms through interaction. It is a sense of
inherent value which is unmeasurable and cannot be taken away or being destroyed. It is an
intangible approach of human person which not dependent on anything and comes with no such
condition (Simion, 2017). The essence of human dignity is defined in business terms also as
people are surrounded in such complex social situations. The human dignity at workplace or in
large organization do matter as every person there regardless of the position they are in want to
be heard and listened, can nod when they disagree with the facts without any such fear. When
superiors show trust and grant sovereignty towards the contributions made by employees it
provides a sense of self-respect, self-determination and the expression made by superiors result
into better outcomes from employees. Failing to do so an organization may suffer the
consequences related to less contributions from their employees as their dignity is being
overlooked and in return employees responds by putting in less efforts as required (MacKinnon,
2014).
The issue occur in organization regarding human dignity is the security of its workers,
employees and operations because an organization has an association with liberty and equality of
human person. In the name of security companies monitor employee activity with the help of
security cameras the issue in the activity would be the range of recording employee activity, it
sometimes raise the question of dignity. Some issues in employee working conditions occur at
workplace like an employer hired an employer for a long term and given him a difficult task to
do for such long period with unethical conditions this behavior can put organization into legal
consequences as it is non-acceptable in regard to human dignity. In general each of the business
has its own ethical issues that arise at workplace, here in this course of business information
system, privacy is of main concern as companies can track all internet usage and any of the
individual movements or happenings (Vaughn, 2015). They have collection of their personal
information with them even when government has strictly prohibited companies having personal
information collection and it depends on the personnel present in the company that how they deal
with such situation and control the movement of personal information that company can collect.
While talking about privacy in terms of technology, there is an exchange of millions of mails and

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text-based conversations between employees which can easily be monitored so the company who
have employed technologies in this instance should be aware of the ethical implications of the
same and make sure employee must be knowing about such monitoring and after the agreement
only such conversations can be monitored by investigators (DesJardins, 2014).
With the new information technology who allows an easy access of creation and distribution of
visuals (images) create circumstances of ethical dilemma and can also exploits human dignity as
such access of images can be offensive to anyone at work place some of them like it and on the
other hand some won’t. This becomes a delicate issue when company tries to extend restrictions
into employee’s private lives in order to keep a check what is permissible in the eyes of
organization’s standards. Therefore such interference into private lives of workers is disturbing
and their dignity is being compromised (Donnelly, 2013).
The advancements in the field of information technology allow users to take benefits along with
it and help companies to reach their organizational objectives effectively and efficiently. There is
no doubt about the benefits a company get after adopting latest technology in their business
operations. But every good thing comes with its own pros and cons, where business information
technology provide all the advancements there must be some facts being cleared to the users in
order to maintain ethical behavior or human dignity in work environment. Companies should
apply policies internally who would limit the use of information technology and self-censor the
applications that may harm the dignity of human person in this field. The application of
technology must be constrained wherever it is required to be and performed in an ethical
behavior. The awareness about the limitations of business information system must be spread
into company and its personnel to maintain the level of dignity at its best (Bal, 2017).

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References
Bal, P.M. and de Jong, S.B., 2017. Create more value for all: a human dignity oriented approach
to consulting.
DesJardins, J.R. and McCall, J.J., 2014. Contemporary issues in business ethics. Cengage
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Donnelly, J., 2013. Universal human rights in theory and practice. Cornell University Press.
MacKinnon, B. and Fiala, A., 2014. Ethics: Theory and contemporary issues. Nelson Education.
Simion, M.G., 2017. Human Dignity: A Religious Appraisal. Scientia Moralitas-International
Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 1(1), pp.68-81.
Vaughn, L., 2015. Doing ethics: Moral reasoning and contemporary issues. WW Norton &
Company.