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PLAN FOR TODAY
• 1. INTRODUCTION • 2. RECAP • 3. EMPLOYEE RESPONSIBILITIES • 4. HOMEWORK • 5. FOLLOW-UP ON MT
HOMEWORK
REVIEW ALL THE RESOURCES ON C4
READ CHAPTER 6 OF YOUR
TEXTBOOK
A) DEFINE MORAL RIGHTS
B) NAME AND EXPLAIN 2 MORAL RIGHTS IN THE WORKPLACE
C) Does your employer have the right to read your text messages on your work-provided
phone? Use concepts presented in class and in your textbook to support your answer.
RECAP
MORAL RIGHTS IN THE WORKPLACE
1. Legal Rights
Are granted to employees on the basis of legislation or judicial rulings;
• Minimum wage • To equal opportunity • To bargain collectively as part of a union
MORAL RIGHTS IN THE WORKPLACE
2. Contractual Rights
Are referring to those goods that employees are entitled to on the basis of contractual agreements with employers;
• Health care package • Paid holidays • Pension Funds
MORAL RIGHTS IN THE WORKPLACE
3. Moral Rights
Are referring to those entitlements to which employees have a claim independent of any particular legal or contractual factors;
• Respect as human beings
MORAL RIGHTS IN THE WORKPLACE
3. Moral Rights
‘’Those general moral entitlements that employees have to certain goods ( or protection from certain harms) within the workplace.’’
In other words, they establish the basic moral framework for employer-employee relationships.
Source, Textbook, p.123
MORAL RIGHTS IN THE WORKPLACE
1. The Right to Work 2. Due Process in the Workplace 3. Participation Rights 4. Employee Health and Safety 5. Privacy in the Workplace
- Food for thoughts –
Does your employer have the right to read the e-mails on your work account?
Should employer be allowed to monitor your web browsing history?
Does your employer have the right to read your text messages on your work- provided phone?
Can you be fired because your boss read a comment you made about your employer on FB?
If you worked in HR would you visit the FB page of a potential employee and use the information to support your hiring decision?
Would you Google potential employees?
EMPLOYEE RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Employee as Agents
• Agent = a person who acts on behalf of another person.
• An agent is hired to perform certain tasks and owes the employer duties of loyalty, trust, obedience and confidentiality.
• Employee as Agents
• An employee’s responsibilities to obey the directives of an employer should never override all other ethical and legal responsibilities.
• Employees have a responsibility to obey the directives of an employer when those are job-related, reasonable and do not violate legal or ethical duties.
EMPLOYEES AS AGENTS EXPLAINED
2. Employees as Professionals
• Professions = are distinguished from other jobs in that they involve some very specialized knowledge that serves the public good.
• i.e. Law, medicine, engineering, etc.
2. Employees as Professionals
‘’Legal and moral duty of a professional to apply his or her knowledge in ways that
benefit his or her client, and the wider society, without causing any injury to either.’’
Source: Business Dictionary
i.e. Hippocratic Oath, Engineer Code of Practice, etc.
EMPLOYEES AS PROFESSIONALS EXPLAINED
EMPLOYEE RESPONSIBILITIES ARE CATEGORIZED INTO 3
Avoid Conflicts of Interest
Trust and Loyalty
Responsibilities to Third-Parties
EMPLOYEE RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Avoid Conflicts of Interest
• ’’ A situation in which a person is in a position to derive personal benefit from actions or decisions made in their official capacity.’’
Source: Oxford Dictionary
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST EXPLAINED
EMPLOYEE RESPONSIBILITIES
2. Trust and Loyalty
• Trust = ‘’Firm belief in the reliability, truth, or ability of someone or something.’’
• Loyalty= ‘’ A strong feeling of support or allegiance.’’
• i.e. Employees are expected to ensure that their decisions are informed and that they remain faithful to their commitment.
Source: Oxford Dictionary
EMPLOYEE RESPONSIBILITIES
3. Responsibilities to Third- Parties
• Third-Party = ‘’Someone who may be indirectly involved but is not a principal party to an arrangement, contract, deal, lawsuit, or transaction.’’
Source: Business Dictionary
EMPLOYEE RESPONSIBILITIES
3. Responsibilities to Third-Parties
• 3.1. Honesty • 3.2. Whistle-Blowing • 3.3 Insider Trading
3. Responsibilities to Third-Parties
• 3.1. Honesty
• Employees have an ethical responsibility to be honest – to their family, their community and to themselves.
• Honesty is the foundation for social cooperation and social activities and is also at the core of our own senses of self-respect and self-dignity.
3. Responsibilities to Third-Parties
• 3.2. Whistle-Blowing
• ‘’A whistle-blower is an employee who informs the public or a government agency of an illegal, harmful or unethical activity done by their organization.’’
• Source: Textbook, p.167
3. Responsibilities to Third-Parties
• 3.2. Whistle-Blowing
• Is it permissible to whistle your employer? • Is it mandatory – ethically speaking?
3. Responsibilities to Third-Parties
• 3.2. Whistle-Blowing – • Is it permissible to whistle your employer?
1- There must be a real threat of serious harm 2- The whistle-blower should seek to resolve the issue internally 3- The whistle-blower should exhaust all internal procedures to prevent the harm
• 3. Responsibilities to Third-Parties
3.2. Whistle-Blowing – Is it mandatory – ethically
speaking?
1- There must be documented evidence 2- The whistle-blower must have good reason to believe that blowing the whistle will prevent the harm
CONCLUSION
• Employees have rights in the workplace but they also have responsibilities towards their employer and the society.
• Such responsibilities include; to avoid Conflicts of Interest, Trust and Loyalty and Responsibilities to Third-Parties.
• Conflicts of interest, Whistle-blowing and Insider trading represent some of the most regular challenges at the core of ethical problems in the corporate environment.
HOMEWORK
Consult all the resources on C4
A) Define whistleblowing. Provide one example to support your answer.
B) When is it permissible to whistle blow on a person or situation? Provide one example to support your answer.
C) Define conflict of interest. Provide one example to support your answer.
Copy the definition of these words in your notebook:
A) Third party
B) Professional
C) Agent
D) Whistleblowing
E) Honesty
Read Chapter 7 of your textbook
