Business Ethics A New Employee - 1905 Words

Business Ethics You come to work and your manager tells you that you are supposed to train a new employee today. This is the third new employee in two months. The previous trainees were all fired from stealing from the company. You feel like there is more to the story, but continue your day and train the new employee. Your manager asks you to show the new employee the cleaning procedure for the bathrooms. As you come back from the bathrooms, you see that your manager is doing something at the registers and when he sees you he quickly leaves. It seems a little strange that he was touching the register since he is so adamant about having only one cashier to a register, however he is the manager so you let it go. That day the register is $20†¦show more content†¦The quick and easy answer may be to speak up about what your manager is doing (blaming the wrong employees for the thief), but how long after thinking about the right thing do you change your mind? In this case, you sta rt to wonder if the manager would just set you up for stealing just like the previous employees and you decide to keep quite while many more employees get fired before the manager finally gets caught for his unethical practices. Everyone at one time or another will encounter an ethical or moral obligation in his or her life. While business ethics can be debatable, it is defined as a general perception in a â€Å"utilitarian† approach of common good for most people such as guidelines and rules that when faced with an ethical dilemma they can assist in making a good choice concerning moral obligation, character, responsibility, and social justice. (Prasad.) It could be something small as catching someone stealing from the company or even on a larger scale of hiding dangerous side effects to a new drug. When the situation takes place in a professional setting, people should act in a manner that would express the good of the company. There are many instances when ethical and mora l behavior is not expressed throughout a company. The reason may be that some individuals might not understand what ethics are exactly and what it truly means to act in a proper way. In order to be ethical, one also must determine what course of action would