Ethics

Ethics

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In this case , Sally and John are both starters to their careers of organizational development consultants . They have attained a beneficial and long term based contract at a food processing company considering that they are fresh experienced individuals , they have been provided with a fabulous opportunity to prove themselves . As they were enjoying the initial phases of their work they were called out by the Human Resource manager who explained her concerns

about the marketing department to them . She said there were some inconsistencies in the department for which they have received a great deal of complaints Additionally she said that she was not authorized to discuss the matter She wanted John and Sally to provide her with confidential data regarding the division manager of marketing and female administrative assistant . She wanted the report of their findings to be secretly provided to her

Moreover she explained to them that she needed details about their personal relation both within the job primacies and outside . Also what the other manager 's and employee 's views are about them . She said she was willing them to provide them a piece of additional income for their extra work

The ethical violations that surround the case are the invasion of privacy of the marketing head and his secretary . As no employee would want their bosses to be aware of every single sneeze they make According to the law an employee deserves to have his /her privacy at the workplace . Every employee has rights and it is against the law to monitor an employee 's private phone calls , emails etc . Nowadays electronic monitoring has become so common that employers are aware of every move the employees make however employees should have personal phones and email addresses that are not monitored by the employees . Also even when the employees are going to monitor the employees it should be in the company 's policy or the employee should be notified before any monitoring take place . As the employees too have their own dignity

The fact that an employee deserves privacy at workplace is still there but in the scenario above the Human Resource department head wants Sally and John not only to secretly observe the employees at workplace but also outside the workplace which is morally highly unacceptable . For this purpose the HR head is willing to pay them a bonus as well . It is against the keep a watch on the employees at the workplace . Outside their offices employees have their own privacy which should be respected by the company

If there are problems within the marketing department and other employees do have complaints regarding the division manager and her assistant . Spying is not such a great idea to solve all the problems the company should look towards uncovering information in a morally justified way . If the division manager and her assistant discover about them being spied by the...