Brenda Franklin had been serving Allied Tech for the past 8 years. As any other organisations, Brenda used to be a part of the lunch hour conversations with her colleagues. One day when her colleagues were discussing about corruption and politics, something occurred to her. As a result she prepared a list called “Ethically Dubious Conduct” and pasted it on the common notice board. Her colleagues were taken by surprise. Brenda was now anticipating the next lunch where she was expecting her list to be analysed among her colleagues.

2.0 Review each item on Brenda’s list and assess the conduct in question. Do you find it morally acceptable, morally unacceptable or somewhere in between? Explain.
The following items on Brenda’s list may be grouped as those that are morally unacceptable: using office supplies for personal use, making personal copies on the office machine, directing company business to vendors who are friends and relatives. Using the property of the office for unofficial purposes without the consent of the authority is termed can be stealing. According to rule-based theory (Sama & Shoaf, 2005), stealing is a morally wrong act. Also the employee can be accused of being disloyal towards the organisation.
The following activities can be termed as acts which are in mid way between moral acceptability and unacceptability: using the telephone calls for personal long-distance calls, changing postage on your personal mail to the company, making non-business trips in company car, making unnecessary expenses on business trips, taking half the afternoon off in office when you are out for business trips. It may be argued that these acts are not against the law but they can be morally incorrect.
The following activities can be morally acceptable at times: calling in sick when you need personal time, using your computer to do unofficial things. They can be morally