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In Good Movie Office Ethics

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Office ethics can refer to a set of codes, values and rules that help to determine behavior in the office. Office ethics may vary depending on the company and are mostly based on the core values that the office wants to express and wants employees to follow (Ellis-Christensen, 2016). In this movie, there are certain scenes that describe office ethics. For example, when Carter was having marital issues since his wife had left him and he hated being in the house alone, he made his employees work on Sunday since it was his anniversary and him being in his house gave him constant memory of his wife, so he keeps them at work and Sunday was an off day for the office. This shows him using his work life to comfort his personal life which should not …show more content…

Something like that is not the most pleasant thing in the world for Dan. Not only that, but it also creates a very awkward situation for him knowing that his daughter is sleeping with his boss. After finding out that they were secretly together, there was personal conflict between the two, like the scene where Dan punched Carter in the face. The confrontation also lead to the breakup of Carter and Dan’s daughter’s relationship, causing Carter to feel heartbroken. As a result, Dan punching his boss goes against work ethics and they both did not respect each other as either an employee or a …show more content…

As a rule, the two should not be mixed together, as they should stay separate. Office ethics should stay in the office and general ethics should remain as a personal matter. For example, Carter is Dan’s employer and Dan is Carter’s employee, and although they work together, their working relationship and their personal relationship (outside the office) should remain separate and not clash. In this case, the two men clearly need each other, the way sons and fathers need each other (Overstreet, 2009). In the movie, their relationship was not too good because Carter is a 26 year-old business school graduate who has no knowledge about the corporate world and who then becomes Dan’s new boss. Dan on the other hand, is a 51 year-old advertising executive and has years of experience in his line of work as the head of marketing for Sports America. Between college tuition, the mortgage and a new baby on the way, Dan can't afford to lose his job in the wave of corporate layoffs (Johnson, 2005). With all that in his mind, he is struggling to make ends meet, despite the currently bad job

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