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Ethical Dilema

 

            
             When an employee discovers unethical, immoral or illegal actions at work, the employee makes a decision about what to do with this information. And this case displays the anguish and frustration that one must go through in the fine balance between loyalty and integrity. The purpose of this paper is to learn more about how an employee can go about making their decisions to come forward with potentially destructive information and about how laws enacted can protect those that believe in a strong ethical business practice.
             In any business practice legal regulation is a significant source of business ethics and this is the perfect scenario to discuss the following moral and ethical guidelines. There are at least five major ethical rules that can be drawn from the law. These include liberty and rights, good faith, due care, confidentiality, and conflict of interest (Corley et al. 367). In this scenario, the Vice President of Production demonstrated a breach of ethics. Foremost, the vice president has not acted in good faith. As defined in the Find Law legal dictionary, good faith means to act with honesty, fairness, and lawfulness of purpose. The vice president's decision to dump various toxic production wastes into a holding pond is malicious and illegal. Furthermore, he is not exercising due care. As the vice president, he is expected to act prudently. This includes evaluating the consequences of dumping toxic waste into a holding pond on the environment and community.
             Subsequently, the assistant is faced with an ethical dilemma. He also has the obligation to exercise due care and will be negligent if he fails to protect the community and environment by not acting on the information he overheard. Although the Whistle-blower Act will protect him, the assistant may choose to avoid confrontation by not revealing his knowledge of the conversation. If he decides to keep this information confidential, he too would have violated the ethical rule of due care.


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