Unethically In The Workplace

According to the philosophers, ethics is defined as a rule of conduct that is a way of showing and recognizing respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group of culture. It is important to determine the unethical behavior that unconcerned people does not understand especially in a workplace. In a work environment, an employee has the right to expect colleagues to act and live up according to the law. There are reasons why employees are driven to make unethical decision to break the norm and begin behaving in an immoral ways. Some of the many reasons why employees in a workplace do cross the line and act unethically includes: pressure, misguided loyalty, and misrepresentation. These reasons can be the result of the unethical

This can be a result to drive people especially employee to do things hat they would not usually do. Some of the causes why pressure can lead employees to engage in unethical activities are the pressure to succeed and get ahead to colleagues. For example, in a department store setting, the boss threatens the employee who works in the shoe department. The boss said that he would fire the shoe associate unless the associate sells fifty rubber shoes in a day. The store associate knows that boots are in demand than rubber shoes lately since it is winter season. As an effect of this unethical action, to keep the job, the store associate will violate his conscience and recommend customers to buy the rubber shoes. The boss is engaging in an unethical behavior by the way of threatening the store associate to do something that is wrong. This also shows that the boss is risking the potential loss of customers to meet their sales goal. This behavior can result in sexual harassment and lawsuits. Unethical behavior that includes pressure can often cause for more unethical

Some of many people get the habit of pretending to have a different job from what they usually do. The reasons for this unethical behavior is they are not proud of what job they had, and they do not like what job they are doing. For example, a sales associate earns lucrative commissions whenever they sell a product for their employers. These sometimes can leads to employees misinterpret their selves to make sales. Some employees will claim to be working for a big company when they are trying to sell products to parents. Whenever an employee think that they misinterpret themselves, they just possess an unethical workplace behavior. The effect of this action can lead to losing of job and clients who believe in their capabilities to the assigned role and