Ethical Dilemma Paper

Discussion question, Ethics Case. Gladys is faced with the first ethical dilemma where David, the president of the committee, asked her to go against the course of action finalized in the meeting. David has requested Gladys to include two extra events that had been scrapped during the meeting held by the committee. The dilemma, in this case, is whether Gladys would follow the measures arrived at in the meeting or follow the direct conditions offered by David. As a member of the committee and one responsible for channeling the opinions of the group, Gladys did not handle the situation well because she would have consulted the rest of the team to share the directions she had received from the president just after they had met. Ethically, Gladys is expected to do the things that the committee comes up with, something she did even after David asked her to do the contrary. So based on her responsibilities, she did the right thing by …show more content…
She is expected to uphold integrity by contributing to a positive ethical culture and place truthfulness above personal interests. The report in question was falsified and submitted under her name, so professionally she presented wrong information. Regarding credibility, Gladys is expected to communicate professional limitations that would affect the success of any activity that she is involved in. So she has the right to claim that the final report was not the one agreed upon by the group but instead the president alone. She is also expected to show professional expertise by raising the alarm when she feels that professional etiquette was not practiced. If Gladys fails to act on the report, she would be held responsible for not reporting the fact that the president changed her report. However, on the issue of the report being falsified, she can be pardoned because David and not her, crafted the submitted