Ethical Dilemmas In The Reflection Of Business Ethics

Improved Essays
Register to read the introduction… I looked at her situation but that did not make me change my mind to report her. First, I made sure that it was her taking the money and I monitored the money for a week to determine about how much she was taking from the register so that I was able to have something to follow up on when I reported her. I then went to my supervisor and reported the incident and asked that we both sit down and talk to her and explain what we know and how we know of her stealing money from the register. After the sit down with this employee we let her know that there were consequences of her actions and that she was going to have to be let go from the company. We could have pressed charges against her but we chose not to since the amount of money was not a large …show more content…
This person put our being friends on the line and looked at our friendship as it was okay to take the money and that nothing would happen to her since we were friends. The issue I had to face here was that of our friendship and how it would affect our families and then I had the obligation of being the office manager of reporting her since I was the one in charge of the office and responsible of what goes on in there. I as the office manager had to make my priorities to the company since her taking money could possible affect business. Yes, the money was not a large amount but after taking money for a number of days or weeks it could potentially affect profits. This person to me did not value our friendship by doing what she did because if she had she would have not put me in that situation in the first place. She did not value our friendship and she did not value her job and not to mention the position that she had put me in. Also she did not value the job that she had and put her family in harm by possibly being sent to jail for stealing. To me she did not think that she had to follow the rules of the company and that she even though she did get caught was sorry but was she sorry for getting caught or was she sorry she was losing her means of getting extra money? I am not as close to this person anymore because if she could do that then who’s to

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    Abrasia Inc Case Summary

    • 397 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Weingarten Inc. has over 100 retail stores, which ave lobby food operations, lunch counters to an area to eat or take out food. Leura Collins was a sales personnel and worked at the lunch counter at Store No. 2. She worked there for 9 years before transferring to Store No. 98. The company has a security department, “Loss Prevention Specialists,” which looks over employee dishonesty and shoplifting. A report was filed against Collins that she was taking money from the cash register so Hardy, who worked in the security department observed her for 2 days but found no evidence against.…

    • 397 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Coupon's Dilemma

    • 608 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Although this situation has put the store in a jeopardizing position where a potentially high valued client would decide to shop elsewhere, I would stand by my employee. An employee and…

    • 608 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Cash Register Honesty In the workplace, employees often feel that they are over-worked and underpaid. Every employee from high school dishwashers to middle aged executives feel this way from time to time. Workers usually only consider what their employers give them. This includes their salaries, their hours, lunchbreaks, and office space.…

    • 419 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    America believes to be a prosperous land and everyone has equal opportunity to pursue happiness. America also claims that the America is land of opportunity and many used to live American dream. Nowadays it is so difficult for common people to live the American dream.because their income is low and their expenses are high,and they hardly make their living. Nevertheless it is only possible for those who have master degree, bachelor degree,Phd,or born rich.otherwise rest of people struggle and suffer a lot still cannot achieve American Dream. Characters in the “Fast Food Nation” or character in “Kill Floor” where presented that for certain kind of people it was impossible to pursue happiness here in America.…

    • 642 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Ten years ago I entered this company, True Electronics, as a clerk. As the years passed, I moved from that to a secretary, to an executive, now to the CEO. The previous CEO, Bob, retired the other day with a goodbye party that shook the building. I sat in the corner for the most part, with my mind on the upcoming promotion. Yesterday, I moved into my new office.…

    • 483 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Shoplifter Case Study

    • 272 Words
    • 2 Pages

    I would inform my manager that it is against the law to hold someone against their will. If I stop the customer while exiting the dressing room, this will give the shoplifter the right to sue the company for wrongful search and seizure. The customer can also sue for civil and criminal liability for false imprisonment. Until the person is found guilty of the crime, no pictures or announcements can be made informing others that the individual is a shoplifter. The shoplifter can sue for defamation of characters if those accusations are proven to be false.…

    • 272 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I really didn’t care about it but the thing that got to me was that she really thought that I was one of the reasons that she got fired. I was shocked that she thought that because she really believes I had time to tell my boss to get rid of her. I kind of wanted to tell her that I wasn’t the reason why she got fired and that it was her actions that she has done gotten her fired. She really believes because I’m close to my boss and I help her lot really thinks that I was the one that got her fired. The way that we could…

    • 1092 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    She looked me blanked in my eyes as she thanked the food preparer when asked, if she wanted anything and did not even reply in the affirmative. With zero to little reaction time, I was faced to make a decision that I was not ready for. To take a stand against shoplifting seemed like the right thing to do, regardless of the purchase value of the product stolen.…

    • 773 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A manager of a retail store hired a fellow classmate to help out. One day, he notices the classmate stealing clothing from the store. When he confronts the classmate, he laughs it off and says “The owner is insured, no one is hurt, and it was under $100. Besides, friends stick together, right?”…

    • 590 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    A Non-OSHA Safety Program

    • 868 Words
    • 4 Pages

    The Basis of a Non-OSHA Safety Program The Inception of of the OSH act allowed for an effective basis of safety to be built into a legal guideline system. However, some feel that the organization that came of the act is over bearing and ineffective. Thus the idea of company specific safety programs funded by the financial means used to support OSHA as it’s funding. The ideal way to go about such a program would be one that closely resembles the OSHA organization, but has it’s shortcomings compensated by alternative means.…

    • 868 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    A nice lady came into my job yesterday with a "hungry" homeless man and bought him a burrito. The total was $8.61, she gave me $9.00 and her change was .31¢ Because the lady left quickly after she placed and paid for the order I gave the change to the homeless man waiting for his food. He tried to argue with me saying that his change was wrong because she had paid $20.00 for the food and he should have received more change. He demanded to see the receipt, so I left to the cash register to get it.…

    • 207 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    1. What are the two types of white-collar crimes? The two types of white-collar crimes are occupational and corporate.…

    • 851 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Brilliant Essays

    When employees in organizations make decisions to act unethically, they affect not only the company itself, but also its shareholders, employees and customers. Employees make a countless number of choices every day in businesses, if they act unethical, they can damage a company's productivity, profits and…

    • 1804 Words
    • 8 Pages
    • 6 Works Cited
    Brilliant Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In a business environment, there are many moral and ethical principles that surround business practice (Robbins et al, 2013). Firms are motivated by growth, expansion and profit, and as these rules bind business practices, many can be disregarded or avoided by individuals or entire firms, to cut corners in the pursuit of wealth. Competition drives efficiency, innovation, growth and raises incomes, however it also makes firms look to cut costs, their prices and indirectly destroy entrepreneurial opportunity. Businesses have to have the willingness to be ethical, as there will always be cheaper, easier, unethical ways to save money and time, but competition, as opposed to greed, promotes ethical behaviour in the long run (Shleifer, 2004). As competitive pressures lead firms to unethical behaviour, it also raises incomes and consumer’s…

    • 1407 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Nowadays, Laws are used to as rules to set the standards of behaviors act by people. As the most advanced mammal on the earth, human beings also have morals to enforce the power of those standards or set up other groups of standards of right and wrong that influence people’s behaviors which are also unknown as ethics. That is the ethics for the society people live in, while there is another term called ‘business ethics’ related to rules, standards and moral principles those are set up in the world of business to guide business related behaviors. An increasing number of companies noticed the benefits of business ethics and the advantage of improving ethical behaviors, but there is always one issue which is profit versus ethics. As businesses…

    • 1369 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays