Ethical Issues in the Workplace
Introduction to Business
Ethical Issues in a Business Workplace.
At large corporate restaurants, where at any given moment may have more than thirty five employees working together, fulfilling many different job positions, while utilizing only a few supervisors, it’s common that the responsibilities or faults that are present in the company are passed on from person to person without any ownership of the issue at hand, let alone a solution. Within the five years I have been employed by a large restaurant chain it has become obvious that not only do my peer employees knowingly and purposefully, consistently deny their responsibilities, or even take ownership for their decisions, actions, or ethical standards, but also my managers, and even general managers prove to do just the same. In most cases such as these, when negative and non functional attitudes or actions arise in a corporate work place such as this, not only does it cause problems throughout the company, but also lack of motivation, honesty, and productivity as well, not to mention if eliminated or relieved it can seriously increase a business’s success rate.
In a corporate work environment similar to this one, where a person’s performance is supposed to be always supervised by the persons ‘upper,’ issues arise ethically all the time, because in most cases, with this many people to regulate, it becomes difficult let alone impossible at all to carry out the job. At this location specifically I have seen an array of different ethical issues that have been crossed. At one point the general manager made the decision to try and fire one of the servers that was consistently missing their schedule shifts, having a bad attitude, and refusing to carry out the duties for their job. However, due to the Human Resources department and the regulations for documentation procedures of incidents allowing a legal termination, he was not allowed to actually do so. With this being said, the employee had had
Ethical Issues in a Business Workplace.
At large corporate restaurants, where at any given moment may have more than thirty five employees working together, fulfilling many different job positions, while utilizing only a few supervisors, it’s common that the responsibilities or faults that are present in the company are passed on from person to person without any ownership of the issue at hand, let alone a solution. Within the five years I have been employed by a large restaurant chain it has become obvious that not only do my peer employees knowingly and purposefully, consistently deny their responsibilities, or even take ownership for their decisions, actions, or ethical standards, but also my managers, and even general managers prove to do just the same. In most cases such as these, when negative and non functional attitudes or actions arise in a corporate work place such as this, not only does it cause problems throughout the company, but also lack of motivation, honesty, and productivity as well, not to mention if eliminated or relieved it can seriously increase a business’s success rate.
In a corporate work environment similar to this one, where a person’s performance is supposed to be always supervised by the persons ‘upper,’ issues arise ethically all the time, because in most cases, with this many people to regulate, it becomes difficult let alone impossible at all to carry out the job. At this location specifically I have seen an array of different ethical issues that have been crossed. At one point the general manager made the decision to try and fire one of the servers that was consistently missing their schedule shifts, having a bad attitude, and refusing to carry out the duties for their job. However, due to the Human Resources department and the regulations for documentation procedures of incidents allowing a legal termination, he was not allowed to actually do so. With this being said, the employee had had