Ethics for the information Age
PHIL306-1304A-01: ETHICS for the Information Age
Every one knows that in order for organizations to develop, publish and enforce ethics policies, is to have everyone from management on down, ethics must be enforced throughout the whole chain. Sometimes organizations don’t demand or encourage strong ethical behavior from its employees. They don’t behave ethically.
I believe everyone by now knows about the government shutdown, I was reading an article online that stated that there is an “Ethics Catch 22 for federal workers”. Writing for FOX News Latino, federal worker Cuevas laments that she and her colleagues are in a Catch-22: Federal employees are required to ask agency ethics officials for approval for outside employment – but those ethics officials are on furlough, too. (News, 2013)
There is no ethical value in this decision at all. How are people’s mortgages going to get paid, or how would they put food on the tables, or pay their bills? This is not what ethics is about within an organization. Ethics is suppose to implement different behaviors so that to ensure that the company as well as the employers reciprocate any harm. Behaviors that prevent compromising conduct, in different relationships, to ensure there are no conflicts of interest between businesses and personnel, promote positive relationships between supplier and customer, and responsibilities to the employers amongst many others.
I really have yet to understand fully what this government shutdown is really suppose to do besides kill off peoples jobs, and make it harder for people to live in the economy. The way that this could have been an ethical event would be to not have a catch 22 to where no one can seek employment from somewhere else. This would have kept employers from loosing homes, not being able to pay bills, and still be able to take care of their families.
All ethical values are supposedly put into place to define social responsibility; some ethics are put in place and
Every one knows that in order for organizations to develop, publish and enforce ethics policies, is to have everyone from management on down, ethics must be enforced throughout the whole chain. Sometimes organizations don’t demand or encourage strong ethical behavior from its employees. They don’t behave ethically.
I believe everyone by now knows about the government shutdown, I was reading an article online that stated that there is an “Ethics Catch 22 for federal workers”. Writing for FOX News Latino, federal worker Cuevas laments that she and her colleagues are in a Catch-22: Federal employees are required to ask agency ethics officials for approval for outside employment – but those ethics officials are on furlough, too. (News, 2013)
There is no ethical value in this decision at all. How are people’s mortgages going to get paid, or how would they put food on the tables, or pay their bills? This is not what ethics is about within an organization. Ethics is suppose to implement different behaviors so that to ensure that the company as well as the employers reciprocate any harm. Behaviors that prevent compromising conduct, in different relationships, to ensure there are no conflicts of interest between businesses and personnel, promote positive relationships between supplier and customer, and responsibilities to the employers amongst many others.
I really have yet to understand fully what this government shutdown is really suppose to do besides kill off peoples jobs, and make it harder for people to live in the economy. The way that this could have been an ethical event would be to not have a catch 22 to where no one can seek employment from somewhere else. This would have kept employers from loosing homes, not being able to pay bills, and still be able to take care of their families.
All ethical values are supposedly put into place to define social responsibility; some ethics are put in place and