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Introduction
This paper aims to discuss a summary of a certain chosen article that is relevant to the business environment. (1) The chosen article is entitled “When office and ethics collide”, as written by Kris Maher (2016). The article describes about the application of ethics in the workplace, which play an important role in the field of business to promote discipline for the employees and stakeholders. (2) As a short summary of the article, it describes about the fraudulent activity of a certain employee where there has been an issue about transferring the company’s funds to the employee’s personal bank account. This is regarded as an extreme offensive activity because the employee’s intent is to satisfy own greed in the expense of the company. As a result, the employee violated the employee’s code of conduct for using the funds of the company as her personal account. Regardless of the employee’s reason or alibi, there are corresponding punishments that will be applied along with legal charges.
(3) As an opinion, being hired as a legally practicing employee should always know about the consequences whenever there are ethical violations applied in the workplace. This includes fraudulent activities that could risk the company’s credibility. As a result, it is important that discipline should be always encouraged to prevent future incidents to happen against the company. This means that it has been agreed that the affected company as well as the government that is regulating companies should impose fines and to reprimand the offending party, especially if they committed a criminal act. In the field of professional workplace, ethics is the most important aspect that we utilize in our facilitative activities as a professional activity. It is for the reason that this is an important principle to provide essential standards that will require a business to follow ideal protocol to avoid conflicts while operating a business structure.
The article contributes to the contemporary thinking about business by allowing employers to make ethical decisions and ethical choices because ethics follows the moral virtue of doing good, which is the underlying guideline for the company to develop safety procedures while operating their business. Shoeman (2014) claimed that it applies to business operators that are developing new type of innovative structures that will upgrade all kinds of facilities to increase the level of operations and productions to produce quality materials and services for clients. Basing from the article, corporate social responsibility is all about considering the welfare for all client and shareholders regarding the output of establishing new facilities by purchasing new products that help improve the internal facilities such as building up new network devices to improve the quality of services. In the same manner, social responsibility also involves the safety standards procedure that is needed to protect the rights and safety for the employees from accidents and abuse from illegal extension of working periods. Ethical issues in the workplace involve privacy, quality, and productivity. As for example, new equipment such as computer devices should be inspected by an authorized member of a government agency that aims to confirm the validity on the quality of the products that are safe to use for the employees as well as for the employers of a certain business organization.
It has been learned that ethics is important to prevent all kinds of criminal intents that will try to alter the development of business facilities’ aims to improve their operation by improve business structure. Applying the standards of ethical procedures and practices will prevent substandard products and services that are produced by abusive individuals that aiming to take advantage against others. Corruption in ethics is a painful factor that degrades the process of improving innovative facilities that result into failing of accomplishing goals and having the possibility to alter business operation facilities as mentioned by Maher (2016).
Reference
Maher, Kris (2016). When Office and Ethics Collide. Accessed: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB106185492458879100.
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