Standards of Professional Code of Ethics of an assistant’s (ANA) profession are responsible for administrative tasks in support of an organization. Code of Ethic for Administrative Professionals (1998) demonstrates the assistant should accept the obligation to engage self- discipline and accepts the responsibility in his or her works. Duties such as generate documents, create slide presentations, create spread sheets, manage databases, maintain websites, representative of company are included in an assistant’s job task. So, being a professional assistant, keep an eye of detail and manage well personal matters of his or her boss also required in assistant profession. According to Deontological theory, people act from duty and not worrying the consequences of the action. Andrea, the assistant, should believe that the principles of Code of Ethics for Administrative Professionals which adopted by the International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP) in July 1980 and amended in August 1998, in applying her decision making.
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Andrea was doing her boss demand out of her working time which exceeds the Labour Law. Company policy may specify a set of working hours and work schedule. For example, employee handbook will state the working hours as 40 hours to 45 hours per week. In Labour Law, a worker could only works eight to ten hours per day, if exceed the time, boss should pay her for the over-time salary. But pay for Andrea’s job is bad and she still have to do the task that given by Miranda after her working time, which she is having dinner when received the phone call from Miranda. In addition, Andrea scared she will face the consequences of losing her job because she cannot fulfil the given task, so that is the reason why she doing her best to find the flight ticket to avoid being fired by her boss,
Andrea was doing her boss demand out of her working time which exceeds the Labour Law. Company policy may specify a set of working hours and work schedule. For example, employee handbook will state the working hours as 40 hours to 45 hours per week. In Labour Law, a worker could only works eight to ten hours per day, if exceed the time, boss should pay her for the over-time salary. But pay for Andrea’s job is bad and she still have to do the task that given by Miranda after her working time, which she is having dinner when received the phone call from Miranda. In addition, Andrea scared she will face the consequences of losing her job because she cannot fulfil the given task, so that is the reason why she doing her best to find the flight ticket to avoid being fired by her boss,