RESOLVEDD Final Paper
Business Ethics
Empire State College

Review
Joe is a hiring manager of an accounting firm and has recently hired Sara about 6 months ago. After interviewing many candidates, Joe hired Sarah, as Lead Accountant as she had the most impressive resume along with the work experience and specific qualifications needed for the position. In the last 6 months Sara has shown she is highly competent in the role and has the professional knowledge needed to complete the demands of the job. She has gone above and beyond in her role and has shown great effort. Sara has been very grateful for the opportunity to work for such a great company, especially since she is a single mom taking care of her 2 children all by herself and just recently purchased her first home. Joe has had no complaints at all and in fact has been thankful he made such a great decision in hiring Sara. However, Joe just recently learned that Sara had falsified her resume stating she had already received her Bachelors Degree in accounting when in fact, according to her school; she had not yet finished her degree. Now Joe is faced with an ethical decision on the next steps he should be taking.
Ethical Problem or Issue
The main ethical problem or choice Joe has to face currently is if he should fire Sara or allow her to stay. He has an obligation as a hiring manager to ensure correct background checks prior to hiring an employee. Does he put himself on the line and fire her or not mention the error and hope that Human Resources agrees and other co-workers do not find out and retaliate?

Solutions
Joe has a few different roads he can take to resolve this ethical problem. He can:
(1) Do nothing because Sara has been such a phenomenal employee thus far
(2) Alert human resources of his findings and have them determine an outcome
(3) Automatically fire her for lying
Doing nothing