The organization that I am currently apart of is at risk for ethical dilemmas because as a teacher you are not just on the job at the job.

Question 1

The organization that I am currently apart of is at risk for ethical dilemmas because as a teacher you are not just on the job at the job. You are a public figure that people and especially children look up to and respect. There have been many situations of teachers out partying with parents, getting drunk because they are stressed out from the politics of the job and being videotaped and some have lost their jobs.  In addition there are teachers who may be dealing with the pressure of having to make sure children do well in class in order to keep their jobs or get a raise that have falsified test results and etc.  Then you have teacher being asked to give children test on material that was never even taught. This is due to the breakdown in the education system on so many levels. The no child left behind may have a child in the 4^th grade reading on a 1^st grade reading level. There is no way that the teacher can teach at the 4^th grade level with an over packed classroom and still try to bring that child up to grade level. Due to education becoming more political than it is about the students and their well-being, many teachers and administrators have been sucked in and have gone against the code of conduct and ethics of the education system. When things like this happen the school is affected, the children, the administration, the families and the stakeholders. According to Gonzalez-Padron, (2015), “If a company stakeholder could experience harm or danger, then the situation becomes an ethical issue” (Sec. 3.1).

May fields are at risk these days to perform or lose their jobs. This has cause many employees to go to extremes to keep their job.  According to Jones (1991), “Ethical issues conflict with an accepted value, principle, or standard, and can arise in any area of an organization, including accounting, customer service, marketing, production, human resources, and beyond.  These issues occur when an individual, group, or entity must choose between alternative actions that have the potential to harm others. (pg. 366) This is why entrepreneurship is a vehicle out of that.

Question 2

Ethical dilemmas in the work place are unfortunately more common that we think. One way or another employees find themselves not following their personal and organization’s ethical values without even realizing they are doing it, unethical decisions that in the long run will affect the employee and the organization. Ethical dilemmas could happen due to many reasons. Many times this happens due to lack of communication or lack of strong leaders that can model ethical behaviors on employees. Business ethical issues do not relate solely to isolated misconduct involving a few bad people. Almost two thirds of unethical behavior in the workplace involves repeating or ongoing occurrence (Gonzalez-Padron, 2015). Another reason why employees find themselves making unethical decisions is due to pressure to move ahead, or unreasonable expectations from leaders to employees. Nevertheless, it is also easy to find the employees that can care lees or don’t want to bother with ethical values believing that they will get away with it.

Nowadays leaders need to place themselves strategically among employees. They need to connect with them and build stronger relationships that can allow them to know employees better. Leaders need to analyze if they have achievable goals for employees and how they can support and coach employees. The problem is when leaders fail to walk the talk and have a sense of entitlement to take advantage of the position they hold within the organization.

I have personally worked with leaders that try to reinforce punctuality on employees but they always arrive late, or leaders that give themselves monetary compensations but never recognize the employees work. Also leaders that use their power to hire and help close friends move up within the organization. I am sure we are all familiar with this type of unethical leaders, then how can we expect employees to know how to react to ethical dilemmas at work? When and organization suffer this problem the system needs to be analyzed from top to bottom. I once read that to see how the leader is doing, look at the people. Strong leaders will be able to recognize those employees that don’t care and should know how to remove them from their working environment.

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