Rickling Ethical Dilemmas

In the case by Rickling it is clear of the ethical issue in judgment. Cindy an employee in a sales position is the only female in a team in a tech company. The team often travels and attends social events but in non-customer events at work she has seen co-workers with females who aren’t their wives. She is confronted by the wife of one of the co-workers who wants to know what occurs at these events. Cindy is in the middle of a moral and loyalty conflict. Other than this being an uncomfortable situation it is critical for a response to be made. The response will affect Cindy either way as she will be going against her morals or the loyalty towards her colleague. Given the information of the case I conclude that Cindy should give her colleague loyalty. If she tells the wife of …show more content…
The relationship with the team will be affected. Most likely she will not see the wife of her colleague again. On the other hand she will continually see the colleagues that are all participating in such activities. Her relationship would be damage with everyone on her team. The confrontation would cause more damage is Cindy was to tell everything that her colleague participated in.
It is difficult to make a decision as ones morals point of views is put on the spotlight. People often do what they believe is best and do not think of what is ethical. It maybe for various reasons such as feeling guilty of something, believing what’s ethical will cause more damage or doing what one thinks its best. There are five ethical approaches that I considered when analyzing this case. Hanson talks about the Greatest Good,