When concerning ethical behavior, ethics can also imply with fairness. Companies that show fairness and justice tend to practice ethical behavior. However, there are many differences we think are justifiable for treating people differently. For example, an organization may think it is fair to terminate any employee over excessive tardiness or promote an employee for exceeding the expectations of his or her job performance. On the other hand, there are also reasonable criteria that we may think are not justifiable for giving people different treatment. For example, it is not fair or ethical to give an employee different treatment based on his or her age, sex, race, religious, or any other personal preference about an individual. However, when concerning fairness, most employees’ associate fairness with ethical behavior and when they are treated unfairly they are more likely to believe that those actions are unethical.
I work for Riverside County Regional Medical Center in the patient accounts department. Within this department there are other units: accounts receivable, collectors, billers, office assistants, and vendors. There are four supervisors, and one Patient Accounts Officer within the department. The ethical issues within my job are fairness and favoritism between other employees. Some of the office supervisors treat certain employees different by micromanaging them because they think they do not work hard enough or show effort; while some supervisor’s shows favoritism to certain employees and not be on their case about work as much. According to, Riverside County Regional Medical Center, the organization values that, relate to our department are “Fiscal Responsibility careful use of scarce resources and Diversity recognizing the values and diversity of staff, patients, and community.” Because of my organization values, supervisors and employees are to value each other regardless what differences they may have. As a result of these