Chapter 9, Problem 1TAI

Summary Introduction

To determine:

The ethical issues that might arise under the circumstances for both employees and managers.

Introduction:

Being ambivalent (or even negative) about your work or about working for your organization can be definite detriment. Employers want to see passion. They want you to love your job and be excited about coming to work and about doing your job. And when you don't? if you want to keep your job, you fake it.

Answer to Problem 1TAI

Solution:

The ethical issues that might arise under these circumstances for both employees and managers could lead to overall degradation of the work process and decreased productivity.

Explanation of Solution

The ethical issues that might arise under these circumstances for employees are:

• Decreased productivity in the work.
• Job dissatisfaction of employee that could affect managers also.
• Wrong representation of character.

The ethical issues that might arise under these circumstances for managers are:

• Wrong interpretation of employee character.
• Managers might assign big responsibility to the employee with fake outlook, that could end up being disaster.
• Managers might feel cheated by the employee.