...Professional Dilemma Yona Mcmillan GEN/480 Interdisciplinary Capstone Course June 20, 2016 Jennifer Baker Professional Dilemma Introduction In life, many people will experience a professional dilemma in the workplace. How we handle it, reflect on our ethics. In this paper I will explain my professional dilemma that I have experience in the workplace with a co- worker. I will describe my experience, ethical issues I have encountered, and the outcome of the professional dilemma before I started the University of Phoenix. The Experience I have been employed with my company for ten years and before someone is hired we are required to sign an employee handbook which contains the company policies, procedures, benefits, and other programs. In signing this manual, each employee agrees that they have read and understand the company policies. If employees break, any of this policies will result in termination. As an Assistant Property Manager, I handle all of the accounts payables and is responsible for entering and taking checks and money orders to the bank. If I cannot make it to the bank, I have a safe that I put the money in (all employees have access to the safe). One day at work I walked in on my April taking money orders out of the safe, and I asked her about it. She responded that she was checking to see who paid their rent so far. She put them back after being approached. This was unusual because we have reports that provide us with this information. I seem very...
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...Professional Workplace Dilemma University Of Phoenix GEN/480 Professional Workplace Dilemma A dilemma that I experienced has to do with my place of work at ABC. In 2002 I had a values conflict that had to do with my job situation. My company had hired a new director for our accounts payable department in 1997. His name was MB.MB was a financial director from Coca Cola with a bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance. For several years, MB had held strategic positions and his fame increased with great accomplishments and was recognized as one of the best director in our company. He was gifted in many areas as procurement direct for payables. He had a tremendous leadership skill and was a role model. He managed the accounting department and brought productivity up to speed. In 2002 MB was nominated as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to his appointment our CEO A H had an interview with him to make sure that he was the right candidate for this position. After his interview with our CEO, Walter ordered a security clearance screening to be done on MB to make sure that there were no skeletons in the closet. Shortly after his interview, human resources had completed a background and security screening on MB. Our human resources personnel Stacy had called for his college transcripts as well. And they discovered that MB had not graduated from Accounting, despite the fact that this was listed on his resume. Our human resources director Stacy contacted MB...
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...Introduction Working at in an educational institution you would think that we have the upmost professional employees, staff and students, causing this paper a hard one to write. Unfortunately that is not the case as I have dealt with many professionals who have acted unprofessional and uneducated. I have been employed for the past seven years to one of the top colleges in the country. The college has eight campuses in different parts of South Florida allowing it to be diverse in cultures both with students as well as with our faculty and staff and creating for ethical issues to arise at all times. The Experience Working for the Quick Copy Center at one of our campuses I must follow policies and procedures set out not only by the college, but by the state and the federal government. Many professors think that because they have Master’s or Doctorate degrees they have rights in not following procedures that I must enforce. I enforce policies and procedures not only to protect myself, but also to protect my employees, department and the college. On this particular day professor Fried came into the office requesting copies from a book for her class. I asked her to please provide me with a copy of the book and she refused. I immediately told her that I would need to see the book in order to abide by copyright laws that are not only in place at the college, but it was a federal law. She got very angry said I was stupid and was too much trouble for her and the students. She...
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...Paper Polarities and polarity management We have all encountered stubborn problems that never seem to go away. These situations are not really problems waiting to be solved, but instead dilemmas in need of management. We all face dilemmas in our personal and professional lives. These are ongoing, unsolvable issues and unfortunately are unavoidable. According to Johnson (1998), Polarity Management is an insightful way to understand and succeed in mastering some of life’s most complex situations. Polarity management is a method of dealing with complex situations by looking at all aspects of the situation. Seidler (2009) describes polarity management as a model that helps us deal with all dilemmas in life. This approach facilitates the consideration of all perspectives to a situation, thereby avoiding the one right-answer approach. The most comprehensive decisions seek the advantages of all alternatives to a situation. When encountering a challenging condition, we must first determine if it is a problem we can solve, or an ongoing polarity/dilemma that must be managed. Johnson (1998) suggests two questions for determining whether an issue is a problem or polarity: 1. Is the issue an ongoing challenge? 2. Is the dilemma opposite points of view interdependent? For every dilemma there exist polarities - interdependent opposites we need to consider in order to create an optimal solution to an issue. These opposing views do not function well independently. In fact...
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...Analysis Of An Ethical Dilemma From Current Events Analysis of Ethical Dilemma from Current Events Karen Perion Grand Canyon University Analysis of Ethical Dilemma from Current Events “A dilemma is a problem that requires a choice between two options that are equally unfavorable and mutually exclusive” (Burkhardt, 2008, p. 118). Ethical dilemmas involve conflicting moral debates. People deal with dilemmas daily; whether or not they realize it. Deciding between two different jobs, figuring out which party to attend on the same night, or giving a patient pain medication knowing they are addicted are dilemmas one might be faced with. Knowing how to overcome and work your way through a dilemma is the expectation. I found an article in The SUN discussing a mother, Kerry, injecting her eight year old daughter, Britney, with Botox and giving her body waxes to make her a superstar. Every three months, Britney watches her mother prepare needles of Botox and fillers to be injected into her face (Pearce, 2011). Kerry, who is a beautician, buys these products online and injects them into her daughter’s lips, forehead and around her eyes. Britney also receives body waxes in hopes her hair will stop growing once she reaches puberty. Kerry says the reason she does this is because her pageant-daughter is destined to become an actress, model, or singer one day. Ethically, this could damage her daughter. The insecurities, self-esteem, and body image issues could be detrimental...
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...During their journey, the two people become very good friends. It is also safe to assume that their rock-and-roll lifestyle was very typical with drugs and sex since the lyrics include “smoky room”, “smell of wine” , and “share the night”. Additionally, drugs are referenced again by the line, “Working hard to get my fill, everybody wants a thrill”. Here, fill means drugs and the thrill is the consequence of the drugs. Furthermore, the line, "Some will win, some will lose”, is referring to the people who eventually become successful in the rock and roll professional. Moreover, the line, "it goes on and on and on and on” can be used to describe life in general since one always has to keep up the pace. Finally, the phrase “Don’t stop believing” is used to persuade listeners to never give up their dreams and to keep trying until they are satisfied...
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...Professional Workplace Dilemma Paper Alicia Huff GEN 480 June 19, 2012 Alexander Dunham Professional Workplace Dilemma Paper Although everyone experiences a dilemma in the workplace at least once in their life, the most important aspect of the dilemma is to learn from it and gain some knowledge and wisdom that can be used the next time you are faced with dilemma within the workplace. Furthermore, while experiencing these dilemmas in the workplace we have to ensure that it is not a repeat deal. Meaning that you are a confrontational person and always have issues with other employees, because you gossip too much or your just plain old not doing your job and causing other people to get in trouble because they have to pick up your slack. Or maybe there is a fellow employee who is looking to get a promotion as a manager soon. Currently he or she is doing some shift leading from time to time. However, you notice that sometimes while he or she is shift leading he or she takes advantage of the little bit of authority that they have been granted for his or her eight hour shift. Now you have brought the change in the shift leader’s attitude to the attention of your managers. You have explained that there is a little abuse of authority with, yelling, name calling, snatching things from other employees hands, not giving lunch breaks, gossiping about other employees to their employee friends who happen to work there, and so forth. The managers state that they will...
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...Doctors Without Borders Crystal Stophel ETH/316 August 6, 2013 Leslie Ann Dunn Doctors without Borders According to “Medecins Sans Frontieres”(2013). “Doctors without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) works in nearly 70 countries providing medical aid to those most in need regardless of their race, religion, or political affiliation”. This international medical humanitarian organization was established in 1971 by doctors and journalist. There are several reasons MSF provides medical aid to those in need. Epidemics, malnutrition, natural disasters, and exclusion from healthcare are some of the reasons the MSF would provide help. The organization also advocates in situations where issues are neglected. The MSF reserves the right to bring attention to any situation that the organization sees as abuse or neglect. MSF operates independently and are separate from any political, military, or religious affiliations, and remains neutral. The MSF evaluates certain areas to determine how great of a need there is in that particular area before opening a program. Since the MSF operates independently, funding for the organization comes from private, non-government sources. In 2009, MSF had 3.8 million individual donors and private funders worldwide. (“History and Principles”, 2013) Ethically the MSF believes it not only important to help one in a time of need, but also to advocate for one in need. They believe no matter race, religion, or political affiliation everyone deserves...
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...physical, financial or sexual. My responsibilities under the duty of care are to ensure I do everything within my job role to ensure this happens. The level of this is dependant on who is under my care a higher duty would be needed for clients with a limited ability to care for themselves. Sometimes conflicts and dilemmas can arise when carrying out my duty of care. Sometimes the client’s rights go against our duty of care as in they have the right to privacy but it’s our duty of care to safeguard them from any dangers. If we were to have concerns about any type of abuse this would override the clients right to privacy because in this instance our duty of care is stronger. This has a dilemma of making the client feel we took our duty of care too far. But although our duty of care overrides the clients right to privacy, their right to privacy still exists and only agencies that must know should be told. Another example is risk taking and balancing risk, it is a clients right to have opportunity to experience situations that may be a risk to the client in order to learn about potential danger but our duty of care is to keep them safe so there is a conflict. The dilemma is if an accident happened a parent/ agency may feel we did not protect the client. However If we do not let the client expose themselves to risks we are taking our duty of care to seriously but if we are exposing them to danger that is beyond their ability then we are not taking our duty of care serious enough...
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...# 1) Think of a moral or ethical dilemma you have faced where every choice seemed unsatisfactory. What did you ultimately decide and why did you choose that decision? Being a newly certified correctional officer I have learned the “policy and procedure” way of doing things from the academy, but now I am seeing the “hands on” way of doing things from the more seasoned correctional staff. To say the least some of the ways are completely opposite. One of the main dilemmas I have been faced with is “whether or not to give out inmate request forms” to the inmates if they ask for them. This may seem like an open and closed question, but it really isn’t. See according to policy and the inmate handbook, the only way for the inmates to communicate or request anything is through the inmate request form. This includes but is not limited to signing up for classes, chapel services, medical call outs (sick or well), laundry changes or request, etc. This list really goes on! This is where I am happy to give the form out as long as I have them, because I understand that point. However I have several fellow officers who will tell them “I don’t have any request forms!” Even if they have a stack of them sitting within arm’s reach. I believe this is wrong. I feel that though the inmates made poor decision that landed them in my care and custody, they are still human beings, and should be treated as such, therefore if they need a request form they should be given one. # 2) What do you do when...
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...positive contribution to our society? I strongly believe it is crucial that we determine if gaming has an actual positive effect in our society or it is just an absolute disruption to our ethical views in life. I truly think that it is the latter but it is important that we take a look on different aspects of gaming as a whole before we can conclude upon it. 2.) Is there an ethical need for new regulations in gaming as a whole? It is critically important to review all the regulations that were put on gaming to identify if new regulations are necessary. With the affects that it has in our society, we need to determine what’s missing as far as regulations is concerned. 3.) When does gaming recreation becomes an ethical dilemma? When I hear the word ‘gaming’ I personally always associate it with ‘betting in monetary terms’. In my opinion, some of us never really think of gaming as recreation...
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...Workplace Ethical Dilemma Workplace Ethical Dilemma Paper Michelle Cortez BSHS/332 Workplace Ethical Dilemma Paper Ethical Dilemma is when a situation occurs with a workplace, organization, or between family members. Ethical Dilemmas usually occur when people do not seem to agree on things that are being changed or to be changed within the workplace, organization, or family. I once worked at a retail store about four years ago where I was a cashier during the day shift. I worked there for a little over three years and I got to know quite a bit of people from the community that would go in all the time to shop. When I started working at the store I was told to NEVER accept any gifts from the customers because it was against store policy. When you are hired you are told the policies, rules, and regulations of the company. You are to follow these to make sure that you are doing what the company is asking of you. Like all other company’s you are asked to please follow these rules and do your job. As I started to go in and do my job, I noticed that there were some customers that would go in all the time and give the other cashiers a hard time. Until one day they came to my register and the first thing that jumped into my mind was, “OH NO HERE THEY COME”. I was so nervous because I just wanted to do my job and make my customers happy and have a good experience at this store. As they put their items on the conveyer belt they started to look at me and...
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...An Ethical Dilemma Rosette L. Steward BMGT 110 University of Maryland University College In today’s rapid face paced society, many Americas encounter ethical dilemmas throughout the workforce. An ethical dilemma is a situation where there is a mental conflict between morals and imperatives. Most of the choices faced in a dilemma are bad so an “ethical” one is when you have to consider your mortality. Please read further to see how Jan will handle her dilemma. Jan’s Ethical Dilemma Jan is faced with the ethical dilemma of knowing that JLT Cincinnati goes off of seniority when faced with downsizing. She is aware that Steve will most likely not get an accountant position in the new LT Wichita corporate office. Being as though the announcement won’t be make for a couple more weeks, Jan should inform Evelyn of the changes that are about to occur. Giving Steve a heads up about the corporate decision gives him to time to adjust fire and gainfully search for employment elsewhere. As a person in Jan’s position the ethical decision would save a family from heartache and worry. Employees’ Roles/responsibilities in Ethical Situations There are several factors that can tribute to employees’ not operating ethical in the workplace. The first one being an “individual” factor. Some people believe that their ethical choices are driven by circumstances. These same individuals however don’t realize that...
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...In professional baseball, a innocent looking foul ball off the shin can look rather ordinary, leaving little to be concerned about. Of course, it always has the potential to turn into something more serious when it happens to a player who has bad luck with injuries throughout his career. That is exactly what has transpired with New York Yankees First Baseman Mark Teixeira. In a game played against the Minnesota Twins on August 17, Teixeira fouled a pitch off his shin, forcing him to exit the game in the sixth inning. At the time, much of team's attention was focused on the welfare of rookie pitcher Bryan Mitchell who just a couple of innings earlier had been hit in the face with a line drive off the bat of Eduardo Nunez. While Mitchell was helped off the field with a bloody towel held to his face,...
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...That team is horrible or everyone in the front office needs to be fired, are negative statements made by frustrated fans of professional sports teams. Owners and front office personnel are no strangers to theses comment and have the challenging job of managing a franchise. Pursing the right business opportunities, how to maintain and better spectator league relationship, increase profits, promote attendance, and capture fan desire to return to the event, are just a few of challenges faced by management. A solid working knowledge of economics and constant review of long run model of team decisions will help a franchise accomplish its goals. Franchise decisions are paramount as one decision can either move a franchise forward or set it back...
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