Ethical Case Study: Supervising With Sharks

I chose to write this week's Ethical Memo Assignment on the Case Study called “Supervising with Sharks: A Project Manager Deals with an Exploitative Boss written by Pamela Taquinion Brannon. Julia Masterson has just been hired as the Director of the Senior Volunteer Project. Six months into her job, Masterson begins to experience many issues within the company, the first being how the SVP FY is not in sync with its parent organization, Community Organization. The issue was brought up to Julia’s boss, Denise Hunter and was brushed under the rug. The second issue occurs when Denise Hunter tells Ms. Masterson that she will be hiring an event coordinator to fundraise for the company. It sounded like a great idea until the Denise discloses the …show more content…
This is also not a bad idea, but readers would not be able to differentiate the two entities apart. Also, this will give the Volunteer Center an entry way to utilize the SVP monies, since both parties would be working together. The fifth issue was the use of computer based systems within the organization. Ms. Masterson’s boss asked that Denise give up SVP’s database which holds 3,000 plus volunteers and use the Volunteer center’s database, which holds less than that. Doing this would cause Ms. Masterson to lose thousands of volunteer contacts and this would allow the Volunteer Center to use the monies of SVP since they would be working on a project together. The sixth issue was project costs, Ms. Masterson noticed that SVP was being billed for more than half of the phone and copier costs instead of one seventh of the costs since SVP is designated as one program. Last issue is the issue of Ms.Masterson’s boss reading her email. It is unethical to open the mail of someone else, and may even be illegal. As an employee, Ms. Masterson has the right to her privacy and this should be