Lane’s sense of integrity and professionalism caused her to resign from River Catering and Forest Glen. Lane as Club controller in Mountainview Club (Club) had fought an uphill battle with Hank Hughes to put sound accounting procedures in place. In addition, to ongoing cash flow problem, theft, low accountability, abusive use of power, animosity, poor moral, inexperience consultant, partners disengaging attitude are some of the facts she has to cope with. Lane is worried about inventory and invoices disparity and after the current threat from Tate-Hughes, she is worried that if she resigns or gets fired she might be blamed for the financial improprieties. The financial losses were significant and legally she felt a fiduciary duty to protect
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Lane’s dilemma may be seen occurring due to misrepresentation and manipulation of financial improprieties abridging her personal values or needs against her will. Lane being ambitious is in dilemma regarding her own values and goals as reporting RLM’s collusion to State board will impact her ambition of completing CPA. She felt a fiduciary duty to protect the Club assets and the employees from losing their jobs. Reporting to the Internal Revenue Service will put her in a lonely path with adverse impact on her career and put an additional burden on her finances. The Club is characterized by an independence climate where systems stifle the development of caring and foster behaviours like lying, deception, low accountability, abusive use of power and deviance. Poor management and unethical acts created a psychological unhealthy organization leading aggressive and violent behaviours on the part of the employees. Inequities existed in the workplace creating a situation in which employees to correct the inequities were openly indulging in the theft. Cynicism manifest itself in employee mistrust of the system as employees and partners get the job done illegally or immorally while working towards the Club …show more content…
She needs to brainstorm the potential course of action as shown in Appendix figure 1, analyze the consequence and determine the nature and dimension of the dilemma like principles of autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, justice, and fidelity. She should give weightage to both the negatives and the positives for both the long and short run. Once the option is selected, Lane needs to evaluate the selected course of action by assessing a sense of fairness. She then needs to implement the course of action as shown in Appendix figure 2 and follow up on the situation to assess whether the actions had the anticipated effect and
Lane’s dilemma may be seen occurring due to misrepresentation and manipulation of financial improprieties abridging her personal values or needs against her will. Lane being ambitious is in dilemma regarding her own values and goals as reporting RLM’s collusion to State board will impact her ambition of completing CPA. She felt a fiduciary duty to protect the Club assets and the employees from losing their jobs. Reporting to the Internal Revenue Service will put her in a lonely path with adverse impact on her career and put an additional burden on her finances. The Club is characterized by an independence climate where systems stifle the development of caring and foster behaviours like lying, deception, low accountability, abusive use of power and deviance. Poor management and unethical acts created a psychological unhealthy organization leading aggressive and violent behaviours on the part of the employees. Inequities existed in the workplace creating a situation in which employees to correct the inequities were openly indulging in the theft. Cynicism manifest itself in employee mistrust of the system as employees and partners get the job done illegally or immorally while working towards the Club …show more content…
She needs to brainstorm the potential course of action as shown in Appendix figure 1, analyze the consequence and determine the nature and dimension of the dilemma like principles of autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, justice, and fidelity. She should give weightage to both the negatives and the positives for both the long and short run. Once the option is selected, Lane needs to evaluate the selected course of action by assessing a sense of fairness. She then needs to implement the course of action as shown in Appendix figure 2 and follow up on the situation to assess whether the actions had the anticipated effect and