Work Ethics
Title: A New Work Ethic
Dr. Jason Carthen
Business Ethic 309
January 29, 2011
A New Work Ethic Business ethic is the study of what constitute right and wrong. Or good and bad, human conduct in a business context. Moral standards are different because they concern behavior that is of serious consequence to human welfare that can profoundly injure or benefit people. The conventional norms against lying, stealing, stealing, and killing deal with action that can hurt people. Morality serves to restrain our purely self-interested desires so we can all live together. People who are exclusively concerned with their own interests tend to have less happy and less satisfying lives than those whose desires extend beyond themselves (Shaw 2010). 1. Describe how typical the attitudes that Sheehy reports appear to be in work environments you have experienced.
Over the course of years, throughout years of working low paying jobs, work ethics of co-workers has been crucial for business. In a mixed environment and age difference, working sometimes side by side with teenagers will bring conflict amongst the older generation. As an employee, dishonesty in the work place gives one a bad reputation and makes all of your judgments questioned and if you verbally lie, you will not be trusted and if you steal, you will not be forgiven. Whether an employee deliberately spreads untruth or truth, it is considered gossip, especially if they didn’t have a person best interested at heart. If a person steals what he thinks is “owed” to him that is dishonest too, on some of the jobs that I have worked, if an employee is malicious if he lies about another employee and that will cause another person not to be re-hired. Once a victim at a job and forced to drink vinegar by several young girls, bullying can cause other employees to do things that are wrong just to be accepted by the team. Bullying is usually seen as acts or verbal comments that could “mentally” hurt or isolate a
Dr. Jason Carthen
Business Ethic 309
January 29, 2011
A New Work Ethic Business ethic is the study of what constitute right and wrong. Or good and bad, human conduct in a business context. Moral standards are different because they concern behavior that is of serious consequence to human welfare that can profoundly injure or benefit people. The conventional norms against lying, stealing, stealing, and killing deal with action that can hurt people. Morality serves to restrain our purely self-interested desires so we can all live together. People who are exclusively concerned with their own interests tend to have less happy and less satisfying lives than those whose desires extend beyond themselves (Shaw 2010). 1. Describe how typical the attitudes that Sheehy reports appear to be in work environments you have experienced.
Over the course of years, throughout years of working low paying jobs, work ethics of co-workers has been crucial for business. In a mixed environment and age difference, working sometimes side by side with teenagers will bring conflict amongst the older generation. As an employee, dishonesty in the work place gives one a bad reputation and makes all of your judgments questioned and if you verbally lie, you will not be trusted and if you steal, you will not be forgiven. Whether an employee deliberately spreads untruth or truth, it is considered gossip, especially if they didn’t have a person best interested at heart. If a person steals what he thinks is “owed” to him that is dishonest too, on some of the jobs that I have worked, if an employee is malicious if he lies about another employee and that will cause another person not to be re-hired. Once a victim at a job and forced to drink vinegar by several young girls, bullying can cause other employees to do things that are wrong just to be accepted by the team. Bullying is usually seen as acts or verbal comments that could “mentally” hurt or isolate a
References: Bulling in the work place retrieved 2002 from www.ccohs.ca/oshanswer/psychosocial/bullying/html Case J. (199).why employees steal retrieved 1999 from www.employeetheft.com/main.htm Shaw, W.H. (2010). Business Ethics, A Textbook with cases. Mason, Ohio Cengage Learning