While on his internship last spring one of my friends was faced with an ethical and legal decision. My friend rotated through many duties and responsibilities in order to gain a wide range of experiences while on his internship. My friend is a very sociable person who thrives at making new relationships and making people comfortable. He had no problem making relationships with the people within the company and with the people working with the company. At one point during the internship he was in charge of submitting the time sheets for a crew on a particular job. At this point during in time at the company the people working with my friend felt very comfortable talking to him. There was a situation on this job where one of his workers would show up thirty minutes to an hour late each day and clock in late. Towards the end of the week, when it was close to time to turn in the time sheets, this employee walked into my friend’s office and asked him change his timesheet to reflect that he worked the full hours that he was supposed to work that pay period. …show more content…
He was just starting out at the company and was forming new relationships. He wanted to keep positively building upon these relationships because he might end up working with these people again. If he was to falsify the timesheet there would be little to no evidence that anything changed on the job. The monetary difference on the job would not have even been noticeable. The only two people who would have known of his decision would have been the worker and himself. On the other hand, if he was to falsify the timesheet, what would that say about his character? He would lose respect for himself and the respect of that employee. What happens next pay period when the employee starts showing up two to three hours late instead of thirty minutes to an hour? This decision could open the door to other unethical decisions in the future and damage his
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
Do you agree with the decision in this case? Why or why not? What if she had told the owners that she was doing this extra work but she continued coming in early because it was the only way to get started on time? Would the outcome of the case be different? Why or why
As a political science major Washington DC or something related to it usually comes out in classes. It has been a personal dream to go visit, but it has become a recent aspiration to go and work there. In any field, it can be difficult to get a job to jumpstart one’s career. The “real world” is known as after college for most people. For the post college reality, I have been trying to make it as painless as possible, but at the same time have it reach its full potential success wise. The reasons that I am interested in the DC internship, are that it would be a great experience, it would help me develop new skills, and it would be the perfect start for my career.
Considering if I were a CEO my ultimate decision on this issue would be this case is not a typical matter for Jane Arnold to perceive if the worker had left the premises to handle personal business then George Mann was certainly wrong for allowing his employed to leave without clocking out, however there is more to the position than what Sally Carter was aware of and with that additional info it changes the complete situation in the particular case.
All financial crimes have common elements that are seen throughout them. Employee fraud is just as common as other corporate crimes that take place on a higher corporate level. For this particular assignment, employee fraud of Patton State Hospital employees. The employees had committed an accounting fraud against their employer. According to Verver (2013) employee fraud is not the number one concern for CFOs, CROs, and CAEs but it is considered to have a significant drain on the bottom line along with other negative impacts on an organization. Due to this, organizations need to be diligent in ensuring that employees are not given the opportunity to commit any kind of fraud against the corporation.
Breaking an agreement with your employees – true integrity is based on keeping to your agreements
At the beginning of April, Carl Robbins was hired at ABC, INC. as a new recruiter. He successfully hired several employees, even though he was fairly new at his job. This was his first recruitment effort that turned out quite well. After this, the Operations Supervisor, Monica Carrolls, tasked Carl to recruit 15 new employees to begin working at ABC in July. So Carl scheduled an orientation to take place for the 15 employees on June 15th. Monica contacted Carl around May 15th to ensure that the process to get the orientation started was underway and Carl assured her that the orientation would be ready in time. Carl started working on the task to set up the orientation around the end of May and soon realized he didn’t have a room for the orientation to be held and the necessary paperwork was far from complete. He only had three manuals and all were missing pages and not one of the new employees was scheduled to get the required drug test. He had two weeks until the orientation was to be presented and suddenly realized he may have misinformed Monica on having the orientation ready in time. Carl put himself in a misfortunate situation with his lack of experience and improper use of communication causing him to be behind in his tasking. If Carl does not act fast or start communicating with his management, he may not be able to make the deadline.
I believe that they might not believe that they’re doing anything wrong when it comes to payroll fraud because they will believe that upper management doesn’t look at what they’re doing because they trust them. Also, the will believe that since they have been doing payroll fraud for so long that no one would notice if they haven’t caught them yet, so they will continue to do it. Pocketing/spending money for personal use is another expense fraud employees’ commit because they have easy access to the money and spend how much they want. I feel that in this case an individual will do it a couple of times to see if they get caught, if not, the get swipe happy and buy what they want. They don’t feel as if this as bad as other organizational fraud because it’s only small amounts at a time not realizing after a while it adds up
Depending on which option John decides to pursue it could really change what is at stake for not only himself, but also people that are in disagreement with him. First off for the company, it could risk losing valuable employees that are hard workers because they do not agree with the unfair treatment. These employees are unlikely to stay working at the company if they are dissatisfied with not inly their pay but the way they are treated as well. Likewise, if any customers were to find out that John and the company were not applying the most ethical business practices it could lose the trust and business from its customers. These customers could choose John’s company’s competition to do business at, which could be very detrimental to the business. For the employees their right to fair pay and treatment are at stake depending on which option John goes about. However for Jeff, he has his dignity at stake, the other employees that are irritated with Jeff’s higher wage could take out that frustration on him and cause a hostile environment for Jeff to work in. Lastly, John, the main key party has a great deal at stake; for example, it is very possibly that he could lose his authoritative figure and respect from his employees. If that were to happen it would take a lot for him to sincerely gain it back and make things right. Being that ethical conflicts that involve family members are touchy, John could lose the respect and loyalty of Jeff or his other family
It all started with the respect I had for airports.The thought of knowing that the people who come in and out of the airport mightve been across the country before they got to SFO continues to fascinate me. The story in which every person has entering into the airport has gained my attention and is probably one of the things that continue to attract me to the airport environment. Then after realizing my interest of SFO , I started to do my research on how to become an active member in the SFO community and that is how I found the internship I am part of now. I would have to say that the process of applying is an experience in itself, having to fill out an application to coming back for an interview and lastly waiting for the “you've been selected” or the “we are sorry but..” phone calls is a journey. Receiving a phone
We have a system that my employees are able to clock in for the day on their IPhone, and it sends a message to my IPad that they have started their day. If they are late, it adds a quarter of a point to their attendance policy for the year. Every morning I go through and check times, and add points as necessary. Seeing that this employee still had not clocked in I added the quarter of a point to his record. The next day in our weekly sales meeting, I passed out everyone’s attendance record, and the employee questioned me why he had received the quarter point. I explained he was late the day before, he then proceeded to tell me he was not, he had been on time and had screen shots of his time card saved to his phone. After reviewing the pictures and doing some follow up on the problem I learned from our IT department that there had been an issue with numerous phones that day, the employees clocked in as they should, the system just not register it. So after gathering all information and apologizing to my employee for my mistake, I removed the quarter of a point from his record. Another error in judgement is projection(Bethel University, 2013). Projection is the tendency to attribute to others some of our own traits in an attempt to justify our own faulty judgements or actions(Bethel University,
Ethics of employees are a large part in their daily life. Ethics within employees can cause an employee to be an asset to an organization or the lack of ethics can cause an employee to be a discredit to themselves and the organization. Unethical behavior can stem from a variety of sources and the situation that the employee are faced with can dictate which path they take in making decisions. Certain situations can cause an employee to act unethically. Addressing unethical behavior is the responsibility those in managerial positions but all employees have the ability to take action as well.
I did not feel it was ethical. However, I did not want to be involved and turned a blind eye to that situation. I think in part it was because the moral was not a good one in our office and I noticed that my immediate supervisor would show up late and intoxicated. In some ways, I believed all parties would eventually be caught for what they were doing.
This paper focuses on the personal experiences gained from the internship while supporting the functions of Human Resources (HR) at the University of Texas at El Paso. The HR department provides a variety of services to all Staff, Faculty and Student employees. Throughout the internship, knowledge and skills have been obtained in the specific area of employment and recruitment. Personal experiences such as; conducting criminal background checks, and E-verify reports which verifies an employee’s eligibility to work in the United States were the typical daily functions of the internship. Interning in the HR department has presented exceptional opportunities that will help fine tune practical skills and gain professional experience while pursuing an undergraduate degree
My first exposure to Irish history was through the history of the early Christian church with Saint Patrick. I would later read in high school the Pulitzer Prize “tragicomic memoir” Angela’s Ashes by Irish American author Frank McCourt and became officially hooked. From that novel, I would branch deeper into both past and modern Irish history: reading and dream. When applying to undergraduate programs, I thought of moving to Europe, but I did not believe that I could leave everything behind and go where everything differed from my culture, scenery, transportation, laws and customs. Nevertheless, I was still curious; I wanted what then I supposed I was not brave enough to do. Forgetting the move from the Congo to the United States. This past summer I finally visited and toured