Code Of Ethics: Ethical Concerns In The Workplace

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Ethical Concerns in the Workplace. Currently I am working for a Christian preschool as a co-teacher for a class of eleven 3 year old children. Working for a Christian preschool you would imagine that having and displaying good morals and ethics would be a must, however just like with any workplace there are those who sometimes break or they may say bend these ethical rules and display behavior that should not be revealed in any type of situation, especially in the workplace. The text book describes ethics in the workplace as “Ethics of business is just that, ethics- a sense of right and wrong when dealing with coworkers, employers, employees, customers, shareholders, and the general population”, basically saying that ethics allows you to …show more content…

Situations like feeling it is acceptable to take office items from the workplace, such as office supplies, even thought they would never steal from a store like Office Depot. By doing these things people are separating their personal and professional ethics, having one set of standards for work and one for the rest of your life. This mistake is then putting you at risk to become unethical and allowing you to use the excuse that you were just following your professional code of ethics. If everyone had a different code of ethics in the workplace then there is no telling how people would treat each other or their workplace. Whether we are in the workplace or at home, we all need to live a life under the same set of values that will guild our actions no matter where we are. Ethically, you can 't justify lying in the workplace for the "greater good" while never doing that at …show more content…

The first being what I believe is one of the important that have been displayed. The company works on a honesty policy when it comes to filling out timecards. Each employee is to hand write in their own hours each day they work then sign and date the timecard at the end of each time period. I noticed on my first day at the company that almost every employee had signed their timesheet and dated it the last day of the pay period even though they had not completed their timecards or worked the hours. Some of the employees even went as far as completing their hours with their scheduled hours instead of the hours worked. Now this may not seem like that big of a deal however, what if the employee ends up missing a day and forgets to adjust their timesheet then allowing them to be paid for hours they did not actually work. Or in the case I witnessed the employee worked more hours and then went into overtime but didn’t want to be paid overtime pay and was trying to figure out how to adjust her timesheet to reflect the extra hour of work. Altering a time sheet, falsifying information, is one of the top examples of not only poor ethics but also lines the illegal column of the

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