Weighing the Ethical Issues

Ethical communication

provide the most useful,

accurate information

Unethical communication

Overexaggeration for a position, downplaying a hazard, overlooking the more deserving candidate for a position, and ignoring safety test results.

Two factors of unethical communcation

• Yielding to social pressure (looking the other way)

• Mistaking groupthink for teamwork (blindly following the group)

What provides a direct way to target infomration to specific audiences

Social media

Social media ethical breaches

Playing on people’s fears; posts actually based on

incomplete or out of date information, meme or post that goes viral before any of

the facts can be checked.

reasonable criteria

standards that most

people consider acceptable

Obligations:

The responsibilities you have to

everyone involved (yourself, clients and customers,

your company, your coworkers, the community,

society).

Ideals:

the values that you believe in or stand for

(loyalty, friendship, compassion, dignity, fairness).

Consequences:

The beneficial or harmful results of

your actions, which may be immediate or delayed,

intentional or unintentional, obvious or subtle.

Ethical Dilemmas

Ethical questions often resist easy answers. Anticipate

some hard choices.

Whistle-blowing

Reporting someone else’s ethical

abuses is tricky because it can cause job difficulty.

ombudsperson,

who help

employees file complaints or hotlines to report ethical

issues.