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Supervision Managing for results Tenth Edition Page 297 Ethical Perspectives: How Far Can You Go?. Employee requests have started to escalate in scope and frequency, and you fear that you have started down a nearly irreversible "slippery slope" of consciously allowing (and encouraging) unethical behaviors at work. How can you escape from this trap and return to a proper system of well-controlled behaviors?

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When employee's behavior and actions started to become unethical at work then Supervisor as leader plays very important role to turn things back around in ethical way. The first thing, Supervisor can do is to create a Code of ethics in the workplace. Code of ethics is very important to guide the behavior and actions of employees in ethical manner. This tell them what they should do and what they should avoid .

for example- if they were involved in taking bribe from others then they should stop now.

second thing, supervisor can do is to implement business policies which every employee has to follow at workplace. For example- come at work on time, do not fight and abuse, do not take personal calls and unethical relationship at work, Deal with customers properly and not abuse them etc.

Third thing is to have disciplinary actions where Supervisor would take disciplinary decisions if any employee violate these policies and rules. This could be suspension, demotion, termination.

Supervisor is a leader who should lead by example. Employees learn from work behavior and actions of thir supervisor so if supervisor is being ethical and fair then employees will learn from hime and start to show such behavior in their personality.