You join a large bank that encourages and promotes employee volunteerism, allowing employees one day a month, or up to 12 days a year, to volunteer for a cause of their choosing. Shortly after you start working there as a junior teller, your boss's wife is diagnosed with a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer that carries a very poor prognosis. Realizing it will win you kudos with your boss. you choose the local chapter of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation—a breast cancer charity that sponsors an annual Race for the Cure—for your company-sponsored volunteer work.
In addition to working at the foundation'soffice day a month, you spend your own time actively soliciting other staffers at firm to sign up for the charity walk in a few months' time. Impressed with your qualities of tireless dedication, your boss puts your name forward for promotion to junior bank officer, well before the customary years of service normally required for being considered for promotion.
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Ethical Dilemma: Your company is generous in its approach to employee volunteerism. It gives you paid time off, and you acquire enhanced job skills through your volunteer activities. Have you just been smart in recognizing the value of volunteering for a charity that you know will earn your boss's personal appreciation? Or are you taking unfair advantage of your boss's vulnerability manipulating the situation?
To discuss:
Whether volunteering for a charity is for personal appreciation from the boss or it is taking unfair advantage of the boss's vulnerability and manipulation of the situation.
Introduction:
Volunteering for charity increases motivation.Hence, it is good. But if anyone does this for selfish reasons, then it is wrong. Such tactics are used by organizations to motivate and retain workers.
Explanation of Solution
Volunteering for charity in free time is good. Some employees misusethis and do charity just to get appreciation from the boss and to promote themselves, which is not good. After doing charitywork for few days, they leave doing such work after gettingbenefit from it.
But some employees really do charity work for their inner peace.They like doing it and never leave doing such good work even if they get appreciation and promotion. Companies nowadays give paid leaves for such work and for other social works as well.
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