bus670/ Leagal Environment / Legal & Ethical Issues in Workplace

1. Introduction

In today’s society, there are different legal and ethical issues that face globalized business environment at national, local and global level. Ethical decisions occur occasionally and businesses may face ethical dilemmas such as discrimination and others. Legal issues are tied to federal and state laws, licensure, public expectation and scope of practice. This paper describes the ethical and legal faced by organization with two ethical theories used to analyze a business situation of a selected company. The paper also explains some specific areas of laws that are related to this ethical and legal issues.

2. Legal & Ethics Issues in a Business Situation

A good example of a description of a business situation that presents a legal and ethical issue is discrimination at work place. For instance, in the year 2012 on March, the U.S. department of labor announced that FedEx Company would pay to the federal government 3 million dollars for settling discriminatory hiring charges ((Derek Smith Law Group, 2012).

A. What is discrimination?

B. Types of discrimination at workplace

C. Ethical concerns rising from Discrimination

D. Employee Protection

3. A description of two Ethical Theories to analyze situation

Ethical theories are usually based on the ethical principle as well as selection of the right ethical theory as based on personal life experience and personal choice. The two theories analyzed here are:

A. Utilitarian ethical theory: Founded on the proficiency in predicting the consequences of an activity

B. Deontology Theory: This state that people should adhere to obligations when they are investigating ethical dilemma

4. An explanation of the specific areas of law

This section will discuss laws related to discrimination issues

A. Labor Laws

B. Federal anti-discrimination laws

5. Conclusion

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