Ethical Issues Within The Workplace

A code of ethics stands for a set of principles of conduct set within an organization to assist or guide employees to making decisions and adhering to ethical behavior. It’s a set of guidelines that must be followed to make ethical choices when conducting work related matters. Code of ethics is an organizations form integrity. This paper will discuss what an appropriate code of ethics is, and summarize the features of deontological, consequentialist, and virtue of ethics in a professional code of ethics. It will also analyze both the advantages and disadvantages of each approach to ethical theory in the context of the workplace.

1. Discuss an ethical dilemma that you have had to face in the workplace. Ethical dilemmas

(Exploring Management) They want to make their goals, but they know that the goal is set way too high to anywhere within reason. So many of the Wells Fargo branches did their best to keep up with the sales quota. So, to keep up they created the fraudulent bank accounts to appease their bosses. When it seemed that most of the employees were doing what they could to meet the quota, others knew of the unethical behavior and did not want to stand for it. So, they called Wells Fargo’s ethics hotline to report the fraud and poor treatment. It did not go as the employees had thought it would. “One former Wells Fargo HR official said the bank had a method in place to retaliate against tipsters.” (Egan, Matt) So, thus many employees lost their jobs reporting the unethical behavior and unethical sales practices. One horrible case of that included Bill Bado, “Bado refused to open fake accounts. Sent emails and called the ethics hotline to bring the issue to light as was part of his job and was fired eight days after he sent the email. For supposed tardiness.” (Egan, Matt) One from one ethical failure to another. You had Managers calling for unreasonable sales quotas, so then you had branch employees open fraudulent accounts, which in turn had ethical employees trying to blow the whistle at all the bad behavior only to be fired in return for doing the right

All the working staffs should be trained to be trustworthy employees so that this type of behavior is curbed in the future. Every person need to be feeling secure when having their money in the bank (Higgins, 2015). Though it shall be a difficult task especially maintaining the old customers apart from creating new account with the bank. The bank is supposed to create a video series which is only view internally in which the senior executives are require to have a discussion on all the grey areas of ethics. Through this they shall be able to manage their business in terms of making operational and managerial decisions. These videos shall play a major role in the management of the operations in the bank. The bank should explain to its employees that after they are found guilty in the bank they shall be fined before being

In September of 2016, it was revealed that there was alleged misconduct at one of the largest and safest banking institutions in the United States. Wells Fargo Bank was ranked among the nation’s safest financial institutions according to an analysis done by Global Financial, (Inside Tucson Business, 2009). Alleging that between May 2011 and July 2015, there were more than 2 million bank accounts or credit cards opened for customers without their knowledge or permission (Blake, 2016). Clients started complaining the they were receiving debit/credit cards from the bank that they had not ordered. Wells Fargo employees also started complaining that about the unethical behaviors they witnessed or were asked to participate in to the Human Resource Departments, the bank’s internal ethics hotline, branch’s individual managers and supervisors. All which led to the discovery of the fraud scandal.

Scandals in the business world are not an uncommon topic to appear in new headlines. Recently Wells Fargo has fired over 5,000 employees for creating over 2 million fake accounts. New bank and credit card accounts were created without prior knowledge from their customers. The accounts that were created resulted in those customers inquiring fees such as overdraft fees. These fake accounts have been created over a five-year timeframe.

The article explains the Well’s Fargo bank scandal in it’s entirety, highlighting and centering the article around the reasons as to why this scandal is more influential, and important than the numerous banking scandals of the past decade. It explains how the employees of the company would create accounts, totalling 2 million, that were fraudulent and created without express permission or knowledge of the customers. This leads to 5300 employees to be fired and questions raised over who is to blame for this incident. Although this information can be gained from any news source today, this article emphasizes the reasons as to why the scandal is so impactful in society today, and why it is gaining so much attention compared to other scandals that seem almost daily. The points that are highlighted are the fact that it is an easy to understand scandal, the question of who is to be blamed still looms unclear, it is perfect for the

I enjoyed interviewing Lillian Thomas, Nurse Manager of NHC in Greenwood, South Carolina. The interview was held in her office on December 2, 2016. During the interview, we discussed the importance of ethics, nursing challenges, and how to behave in the workplace..

Ethical dilemmas are particularly sensitive issues in the workplace because the well-being of the individuals and the organization as a whole are at stake. Employees must feel as though they are being supported and not punished, and should not feel as though they were being put on display; their dignity should always remain intact. This paper examines how, as a high school principle, I would address the issue of one of the high school teachers becoming addicted to prescription drugs.

CCIB received a SOC 341 report on 8/4/15, by reporting party Jo. RP states that a 53 year old client at the home named Barbara who is diagnosed with autism, depressive “depressive disorder” and cancer. RP stated that Barbara informed RP that her bedroom does not have A/C which is a problem with the heat and the fact the roommate Anita is 80 years old. Barbara also disclosed to RP that the bedroom had bed bugs which came from another room. RP also states that Barbara’s room has had no hot water since 7/31/15. RP states that the meals are a “hit and miss” and Barbara is not able to supplement the meals because she is on a limited income. Barbara also disclosed to RP that up until “1.5” weeks ago dinner was served at 3:00pm because that was when

Although many aging adults still are continuing to work past their retirement age, working class will always have a need for them because of their stability in the workforce. However, these workforce jobs may come into conflict when baby boomers reach retirement age. Furthermore, many choose to keep working due to their economic status, college for their children, and home ownership. On the other hand, this dilemma can be avoided if as parents, we install a good work ethics, self-responsibility, and economic survival, like their parents enforced during their

According to Glazer (2016), one of the former employees of Wells Fargo said that “if you could sell, you had a job and bank branch managers pressured them to look for sales prospects at bus stops and retirement homes” (para. 5). How will a bank manager make bank employees become sales agents and road side marketers? This type of leadership style is questionable and unethical. Consequently, Due to the issues of fake accounts openings in over 6,000 Wells Fargo bank’s branches, the scandal quickly brings the attentions of the news media. Glazer (2016) wrote that the “Wells Fargo chairman and chief executive office, John Stumpf denied that the company’s culture is obsessed with nonstop selling that ran in different bank branches and blamed it on some employees that didn’t honor the bank’s values” (para. 6).

Major private financial institutions in the USA, Japan and Europe ended-up in the hands of such executives who were thus in no violation of any legislation but were in fact acting greedily and unethically, betraying the confidence of their customers. The border line between the laws and the Ethics were lost.

Ethical dilemmas are what happen when a person is faced with a decision that may press against their personal values or beliefs. At one of my previous jobs, there was a problem with employees conducting their personal business, errands, or hobbies all while on the company’s time. There were many times that people were caught shopping on company computers, playing games or accessing social networking sites, checking personal email accounts, and taking excessive breaks without the companies approval. This began to be a problem because while people are doing these things on company time, they are not doing the job that they are being paid to perform. Of course it may seem harmless

In organization, many employees may have to work as a team to get their jobs done. The workplace will be used as a place where employees can provide a work for employer. When many people who came from different backgrounds, values, goals, and perceptions of acceptable behaviors have to work together under the same roof, it’ll be quite difficult for the organization to avoid the ethical issues. The ethical issues that I have experienced in my previous workplace are: