I have encountered many ethical dilemmas throughout my life and recently a dilemma had appeared. It happened at the job I use to work at about a couple of months back. I was in a very awkward position when a very wonderful friend of mine received a huge promotion. She was promoted to be the overall boss and the person that most wanted to obtain the job didn’t. I was in a position where I could take advantage and benefit from her being promoted. It crossed my mind a couple of times before she took the promotion. There were other co-workers who were pulling for the other person due to them wanting to take advantage, mostly workplace politics. Though I had every opportunity to take advantage of her promotion I ended up not doing anything. In …show more content…
It felt embarrassing to even be in this situation. I never like to be unethical nor take advantage of someone. I used Warren Buffets Front of the newspaper test in a way where I imagined to myself what would my father, mother, and brother, what would they think, or say, if they saw me take advantage of a person for personal gain. Just thinking about that gave me a sense of embarrassment. That’s not the way my family taught me to act nor was it the way I was brought up. Since I felt this wave of shame and embarrassment, I knew I couldn’t go through this. The Laura Nash model also came into play where I put myself in my friend’s shoes. Thinking to myself what If she found out that I was taking advantage of her for personal gain she would be hurt. Thinking about that I couldn’t do that to a person that cared about me, I couldn’t be a heartless person. At the time I didn’t even know that these models even existed, to test if a situation is ethical or unethical but I still ended up using these models. Looking back on it now these ethical models work and allow a person to undoubtedly look at those you affect with the decisions you
During 2014 there was an ethical dilemma that occurred at Canadian Tire. There was an employee named Samantha and she held the position of a Supervisor at Canadian Tire. Canadian Tire would give out Canadian Tire money to their clients depending on how much they have spent at the store and this was basically a marketing strategy for Canadian Tire whereby the clients could use the Canadian Tire money to purchase merchandise at the store. Samantha was in charge for restocking the Canadian Tire money at all times. Every time Samantha restocked the Canadian Tire money she would always withdraw few dollars out for herself and make adjustments on the paperwork and she would go to the Canadian Tire Gas station and purchase gas for herself. She went
Critical Response: Given the three possible responses from the book, I feel like #2 is the most ethical of the three. However, I feel like all three aren’t satisfactory ways to treat this situation. I will analyze them one by one, then give my opinion of what the salesperson should do.
An ethical decision that I was faced with within my professional career was about a month ago. I’m a dental assistant so I work with people every day and I have to deal with people and their personal bias. I had a patient that was underage and she come into the operatory by herself. I asked the patient did she have a guardian with her and she said “yes”, and she started to inform me that her grandfather didn’t like African American people. At that point I was faced with an ethical dilemma to not inform her grandfather about the treatment or to faced her grandfather, that I knew didn’t care for African American people. The problem was very difficult because I didn’t know how her grandfather was going to react toward me as a professional person.
In her essay “A Question of Ethics,” Jane Goodall, a scientist who has studied chimpanzees for years, tries to resolve a heavily debated ethical dilemma: Under what circumstances is it acceptable to cause animal suffering to prevent human suffering? Her answer, however, remains uncertain. Although Goodall challenges scientists to avoid conducting unnecessary tests on animals, she does not explain the criteria by which scientists should determine necessity.
Consider how this type of legal and ethical issue might take an emotional toll on you (due to moral stress and distress). What are some appropriate ways to manage such
Abortion has been a political, social, and personal topic for many years now. The woman’s right to choose has become a law that is still debated, argued and fought over, even though it has been passed. This paper will examine a specific example where abortion is encouraged, identify the Christian world views beliefs and resolution as well as the consequences of such, and compare them with another option.
So, over all, this helps you get a better understanding that ethical dilemmas happen for all people, in all walks of life, in many different situations. It shows us we must pay attention to our actions and the actions of others around us. As long as we follow the rules, and ask for a little direction when we don’t know what to do, we will all be better off in our careers as helpers.
.... In addition, this company has already made adjustments in the way they are making their product by using organic cotton to improve the quality of their product. Furthermore, while Patagonia is making definite changes towards their social responsibility considering the needs of their customers while still increasing the amount of product they are producing.
Review of “Situationism and Virtue Ethics on the Content of Our Character” by Rachana Kamtekatar
Ethics is the study of how people should live. people have different views and beliefs of how they're supposed to live their life. people from all over the world have different ethical beliefs and different ways to determine which beliefs are right and which are wrong. when you visit a different country, you notice things they are doing and those things might seem wrong to you and you would never consider doing what they have just done but in their society its normal and everyone does it. inside the margins of this paper I am going to analyze the top three models used to determine a morally significant being based on the criteria in your book. I will first define a moral agent and a morally significant being then take you through the steps to deciding what a significant being is and which criteria you would use for each.
Using the NASW Code of Ethics, what are the ethical considerations you have to make in this scenario?
Your moral compass forms an ethical norm, and this is very much an impulsive decision, not one
Being a young man, I am rarely subjected to making adverse decisions relating to morality. As I currently stand, my ethical principle has few ill effects, with most unethical acts being petty quarrels with friends and family. Also, I don’t have the life experience that allows me to decide the worth of benefits and the seriousness of various acts. This puts me in a state where my ethical principl...
"Ethics are personal and, at the same time, a very public display of your attitudes and beliefs. It is because of ethical beliefs that we humans may act differently in different in situations" (University of Phoenix, 2007). Poor ethical choices in the workplace can truly hurt people. Poor ethics can damage their career, happiness, and quality of living. Not only can these actions hurt the individual who has made the bad choices, but also most often it hurts the innocent. This essay will provide two actual case studies; one of positive ethical principles and the other of poor ethical principles.
The first and most important thing I learned was to look at how my behavior may affect the people around me. If your actions do not benefit the business and your co works then they are probably not ethical. I also learned to only accept what you have earned. My Kozlowski had not earned the money to buy all the fancy things he had bought in this case; he used money that he took away from the business as well as the stockholders.