Claymore Residential Home Case Study

Throughout one’s working life, its highly probable that ethical dilemmas will arise in professional practice in one form or another. Ethical dilemmas bare their heads in many different fashions, including: “…competing ethical principles; empathic failures due to cultural misunderstanding; language gaps; inadequate cultural training to serve a certain population, and so on” (Zoltan, 2016). In the personal experience of this reporter, Claymore Residential Home, a corporately run rehabilitative community for adults with intellectual and cognitive impairment, presents the gravest example of ethical dilemmas. It was a workplace lead by autocrats cloaked in professional titles and facades of altruism. Ethical dilemmas emanated from the top of the hierarchy and trickled throughout the organization.
Operationally, Claymore was skilled in meeting state and local mandates, adhering to regulations and presenting a public persona that appeared in sync with ethical codes and expectations of quality care for the population being served. Beneath the surface, lurked blatant

11). The noxious environment at Claymore, did just the opposite during the time of this writer’s employment at the agency. Furthermore, the Claymore scenario, highlight the harm of juxtaposing ideals mitigated by ridged top-down hierarchies in the context of caring centered practices. The organizational dynamics, and homogeneity among the members of the leadership team produced inherent ethical dilemmas orbiting around race, class and academic status. The above mentioned example also underscore how complicity has a tendency to exacerbate the unjust behavior of one rouge administrator, when practitioners fail to act based on ethical codes of conduct and