You are responsible for enforcing a physical fitness/readiness standard for your employer. Due to your workplace responding to a catastrophe for the past month, many people have neglected their physical fitness. How do you address the issue of physical fitness when the staff has not had the time to put into it?

Ethical Issues in the
Workplace

 

A few ideas for your consideration:

~ You are responsible for enforcing a physical fitness/readiness standard for your employer. Due to your workplace responding to a catastrophe for the past month, many people have neglected their physical fitness. How do you address the issue of physical fitness when the staff has not had the time to put into it?

~ Your co-worker has been consistently late for the past month unbeknownst to the supervisor. Reporting such behavior could mean that your co-worker is dismissed, or put on a performance improvement plan. Yet, the co-worker is dealing with a personal tragedy because her 5-year-old son was diagnosed with Leukemia. Do you report?

~ You take a new hire on a sales call and meet with an executive at company X, your most important client. While your back is turned to grab something out of your briefcase, the executive fondles the back side of your new employee. What do you do to protect the employee yet preserve the relationship with the client?

This final paper is your opportunity to delve into a topic within the framework of ethics that you find interesting based on your approved topic and thesis statement.

Recognition, Analysis, and
Resolution

One of the most beneficial exercises in a course exploring ethics is to develop a paper that allows you the opportunity to create connections between your professional view of ethics and applied ethical theories. The nature of ethical decision making is recognition, analysis, and resolution.

Your paper must explore a current ethical issue in your workplace. It can be a current or former employer, or someplace where you have volunteered. Ideally, the issue that you explore is something related to your current or future career.

Focus your paper on the connection between your topic and ethics theory. You must use your approved topic. You must use at least two ethical theories in your analysis.

You must support your views. While your opinions are important, they are not enough for a discussion for this type of paper. The academic connections are crucial.
Use your full-sentence outline to build the paper. This creates the blueprint for the final paper.

Your paper must include the following:

  • Introduction and overview of the ethical issue. Provide a clear description of the topic including all relevant facts (who, what, when, where, and why). This is where your thesis statement resides.
  • History of an ethical issue in the workplace. Provide a brief background of the organization, description of the dilemma, and justification for why this experience is an ethical dilemma. (Hint: define ethical dilemma, and show how your facts meet the definition).
  • Academic research on ethical theories, lenses, or models. Include both modern and traditional ethical theories in your analysis.
  • Explore ramifications of potential solution options based on the ethical theory analysis.
  • Conclusion; include a final discussion of how you—as a participant in the resolution—would play a role, the personal implications or consequences you may experience, and how you would handle these consequences.
  • References in APA format. You must cite at least 2 of the sources used in this course. Your references may include academic and trade journals but should not include unverified, non-credible sources such as blogs. You must have a minimum of 5 references.
  • Your paper should be 5-7 pages in length (not including title and reference pages) and must follow APA guidelines, use Times New Roman, 12-point font, double spacing, with one-inch margins.

This activity is used to assess one or more general education career competencies (GECC). You will see additional rows in your rubric from your instructor along with assessments of Above/Meets/Does Not Meet Expectations for each competency. These rows do not factor into your grade.

OUTLINE Instructions

Building on your paper topic selection from Module 2 and annotated bibliography in Module 4, in this assignment you will be creating and submitting an outline for the Module 8 paper.

A full-sentence outline helps you create the structure of your paper and the topic sentences of your paragraphs at the same time. Think of this document as your blueprint for the final paper. By approaching the outline in this way, you can easily move paragraphs around and edit the flow of the paper before you write a full draft. This makes editing for the flow of information easier.

 

For this activity, create a full-sentence outline for your final paper. Each sentence will act as a topic sentence for a new paragraph. The entire paper should be outlined using this method. This will allow your instructor to provide feedback to you about the information flow in your paper.