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Blog Post: ETHICS in the WORKPLACE
posted Monday, June 22, 2009 2:07 PM
One of my favorite chapters in my book, "How to Get, Keep and Be Well Paid in a Job" is my chapter on ethics. In the book I write about how to determine the ethics of a situation; the decison to act ethically or unethically; and potential consequences of choosing to act unethically. I then give examples, starting with life situations and later moving to the workplace.
For this blog I will proceed differently. I will present a situation without writing about my view on ethics so postings can follow untainted by my views on the subject. I will then write a follow-up blog regarding my view of both the comments generated from this blog and of my view on ethics. Situation: A bank has a strict policy that all tellers must have at minimum a high school diploma or a GED. There are no exceptions. In fact, a good friend of yours who was an excellent teller for another bank, just lost his job because of the downturn in the economy, and was turned down by the bank you work for because he did not have his GED or high school dipolma. Your friend was told that every teller in the bank has at minimum a GED or high school diploma, and that the bank even uses that fact when soliciting new accounts. Today the teller who sits next to you, someone who is not your friend, not even someone you go to lunch with, turns to you and says, "I can't wait. Next month I am finally getting my GED." Question #1: What would you do, if anything, after finding out that the teller sitting next to you did not have either a GED or high school diploma? Question #2 for supervisors reading this blog: What would you want the person who found out about their coworker not having a required GED or high school diploma to do in this situation? Please give these questions some thought and post your reponses. Thanks. Tags
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The teller in question was obviously working on the GED while employed. If he failed to acquire it or dropped out of the program, it could be grounds for termination. The person trying to get hired may have qualified if he also had been working on a GED.
My names is Mirna, i would probably evaluate the situation by evaluating his performance, hard work. If he is a productive and an good employee, then I would probably noyt tell my his work, see how good he is at his wirk. If he's great at what he does, and is serious and hard working. I mean the guy is getting his GED next week.
But if this person is lazy, doesnt work hard, not good at what he does, then I would talk to him about it, and get him to tell the managment himself, and if he doesn't then I would do it.
As a person in charge, I would like my employee to trust me and be able to share this important inofrmation with me, because there might be other tells like him, and if he happens to be good and is getting his GPD soon, others might not be.
But this requires a great deal of trust between the employer and the employee!
Thank you reaching me through you blog. Its great to think and see how others think, and what you have to say about that.
Greteings from Jordan
Mirna
As an employee, i would probably judge the situation by evaluating his performance and hard work. If he is a productive and a good employee. If he's great at what he does, and is serious and hard working then I would not tell my employer.
I mean the guy is getting his GED next week.
But if this person is lazy, doesnt work hard, not good at what he does, then I would talk to him about it, and get him to tell the managment himself, and if he doesn't then I will have to do it myself.
As a person in charge, I would like my employee to trust me and be able to share this important information with me, because there might be other tellers like him, and if he happens to be good at his job and is getting his GPD soon, others might not be.
But this requires a great deal of trust between the employer and the employee!
Thank you for reaching me through your blog. Its great to think and see how others think, and what you have to say about that.
How about if i can go back and edit my message on your blog :)
Regards from Jordan
Mirna