rights and responsibilities

A1.

Train the employees about the culture, which includes integrity being one of the best core

values of the company. This will encourage employees to do their best every day they come to

work, also keeping everyone to a high professional accountability. In turn will promote the

employees to be on-time and be accountable for any project they are leading.

Train to empower the employees and be able to recognize sexual harassment in the

workplace. Showing the employees any type of “cat calling”, “sexual innuendos”, etc. will not be

tolerated and will lead up to and including termination. Every employee has the right to come to

work and not be harassed while at work.

Train employee it is their responsibility to work the required amount of time set forth by

the employer each week. By doing so they should be compensated for the work they do at a fair

market value agreed upon getting hired.

Employer Ethical Responsibilities

A safe work environment where you are free of discrimination. The employer should be

an EEO, should not discriminated based on sex, race, age, color, religion, or any disability. A

safe work environment promotes better production from the employee with little to zero

management intervention.

It is the employers’ responsibility to provide the correct protective equipment if required

to be around hazardous material. The employer should have documented processes on how to
dispose of any and all hazardous material. The employer should have written procedures on any

and all activity that is the daily responsibility of the employee.

Ethical Business Dilemma

At Chris’s work his agreed upon schedule with management is 7am – 3:30 pm Monday

through Friday. His friends told him to work 4 10-hour shifts so he could call out” on Friday to

go to Vegas. His boss will not be in the office Friday, Chris wonders if anyone will notice that he

is gone if all of his work in done for the week.

Utilitarian and Relativistic Perspective.

“Utilitarianism is a normative ethical theory that places the locus of right and wrong

solely on the outcomes (consequences) of choosing one action/policy over other actions/policies”

(Cavalier, 2019). If he wanted to be a responsible as an employee, he would work Monday

through Friday and work until 3:30pm then meeting his friends in Vegas after his work week

is completed.

Relativistic is the self-belief that is no absolute truth, one a persons’ own value and

beliefs. Based on the scenario about. Chris enjoys time spending time with his friends and his

personal preference to work 4 10-hour shifts so he can enjoy the weekend with his friends in

Vegas.
 Ethical Decision and Dilemmas

A common issue that an employee can see in a work environment is harassment

complaint to/ from another coworker. The ethical way to handle it would not burst out at the

coworker and report it to the appropriate people.

When at work one needs to have situational awareness to because person a and person b

might be having a conversation, but person C overhears the conversation they can be offended,

and the other 2 parties would be liable. It is best to keep everything G rated at work, if you go

outside that standard you are putting yourself at risk for discipline from the appropriate people.

The correct decision is to keep all conversation that are potentially problematic for a talk offsite.

Chris is giving a company credit card when he was hired and is to be used for business

expenses only. He got invited out with his new coworker and the bill came and Chris opened his

wallet and saw the company credit card and thought he would be a good guy and put up the

check on the card. He is wondering if he should cover the bill and write it off as a business

expense.

Chris should not use the company credit card to cover drinks for his new coworkers. He

was told when he was hired that the card was only approved for business expenses. Even though

they are all coworker and could be talking about work, it would not fall under a “business

expense”.

Ethical Decision of the section above

 It is the employee’s decision to follow all polices. To show up daily to work, to follow all

procedures and polices from management. To understand their surrounding at all time and watch

what one says and who it is said around.

Chris’ issue is he thought he could use the credit card for drinks after work since they

were still talking about work. The credit card is to only be used for business expenses, the drinks

after a day of work does not fall under the policies for business card usage.

Reference

Cavalier, R. (2019). Online Guide to Ethics and Moral Philosophy. [online] Caae.phil.cmu.edu.

Available at: http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/Cavalier/80130/part2/sect9.html#Top%20of%20Page

[Accessed 19 Sep. 2019].