Workplace Ethical Dilemma

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Workplace Ethical Dilemma

Introduction

Ethics is considered as one of the most important considerations at a workplace. It is necessary that every individual working in the organization give importance to ethics and work according to it. The changing nature of workplace is making it more important for the managers and employees to work following the ethical values and norms. As diversity in organizations is increasing, people are entering offices from different backgrounds. Their perception, ideas, values and norms are different from others. It is necessary that every employee gives value ethical considerations. Ethical Dilemma refers the situation when conflicts arise within a person between his personal and professional values and problems. Such situations are very common in organizations, and managers and employees have to face issues. Ethical dilemma can be avoided to a certain extent by understanding and adopting the organization's values (Blanchard and Peale, 1988),

The Essential Points of the Dilemma

The essential points of dilemmas include the following:

Ethics is the system which includes moral and ethical conduct and behavior. Forcing one's personal value on others is considered as an unethical act, and managers and employees should take care of this.

Acting responsibly in different situations is an unethical act, and it is necessary that employees understand this, so that they can avoid ethical dilemma.

Ethical dilemma is a situation where there is confusion between answers, and it is not understandable that which answer should be selected and which should not be selected.

Making choices between two or more right things become quite difficult, and people who are facing this dilemma have to take equally justifiable decisions.

Taking a justified decision is not easy for individuals alone, the managers and other members of organization should take decisions accordingly together keeping in mind all the aspects of the decision.

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