What is Ethics?
Ethics is the study of principles that help us to distinguish
right from wrong in human conduct.
Types of ethical voilations:
- Toxic Work Environment: Work Environment of a place matters
alot. A toxic workplace is a kind of place which can make serious
disruptions in the rest of your life. Toxic work environment can
cause: Employee Sickness, No Enthusiasm, Lack of communication,
Gossips and Rumors.
- Conflicts in Business's Goals: When a company sets a goal like
monthly sales or product production numbers which seems to be
unrealistic, this cause ethical conflict. Employees and Leaders
will try to take some unethical ways to achieve these unrealistic
goals.
- Unethical Leadership: Decisions made by organizational leaders
which are illeagal and voilate moral standards cause ethics
voilation in business environment. Like when the owners aand the
management of a company don't follow protocols and tells their
subordinates to follow them in illegal path it creates unethical
leadership.
- Harassement: Harassement can be in verbal or physical and the
harasser can be co-worker, supervisor or even custommer or
contractor. In verbal harassment, employees become victim of
abusive language. In physical harassment, a victim can be hit, push
or touch insensibly by dominant.
- Fraud: Some employees intentionally make mistakes and errors
which create unethical behaviours. Fraud can be cause under
pressure like when your lifestyle is high and there is always
pressure of earning more money which will make them to do unethical
works. Fraud can be done when an employee has opportunity of doing
unethical works i.e. when internal control of workplace is of poor
quality.