Week 5 assessment Ethics Game

The ethical issues brought up in the assessment were a Person was buying flowers for a co-worker and she didn’t want them, he also checked on here a lot and was around her office a lot even though he worked in another area. The other ethical issue was a guy was tampering with results of a medical survey taking buy volunteers testing a drug. The results were going the way he wanted and he tampered with them and changed them to look better or more positive for the drug. The steps taken in the first issue were to talk with my advisor and take a look at our companies policies, make sure we have them available and for them to be followed. In the assessment I didn’t handle it the best way, my way was productive, but I should have had a more direct approach to it, but I did very little risk to the company. I found out that I want the least risk, which isn’t always the best way.
On the second issue of falsify records I choose a more direct approach and turned in the person and showed the results of my own to the journal. I had a higher risk of 3, but I still got the situation solved.
I know that the basic rules and process have to be followed, and share concerns and critiques about the rules. I also had to protect the junior researchers so he wouldn’t catch any backlash, he was doing his job, and Dr. Waters were to blame.

The first ethical issue about the harassment, this issue could easily become a lawsuit for the company, you have to take in to consideration the fact that is the accusation credible, so you don’t wreck the career of a good employee, or if the accusation turns creditable you have to becarefull you don’t hurt the accuser as well. IS it ethical to just fire the person who is accused of harassment, no you have to follow the steps, take all actions in consideration, and choose which one full fills the needs of the complain tent and the company. Having the help of people above me helps, but this had to come down to using this as a great way to also protect people from future problems with harassment and also protect the people involved. The second issue had some of the same ethical dilemmas, who to protect, whets to learn from this, how to make sure this doesn’t happen again. Also, I think the journal and other researches should check to make sure the results are true as well. These are people lives and money at stake, and people shouldn’t falsify things to get the results they want. Also, not to keep it quiet, the company could have faced lawsuits further down the road if this was corrected soon.

In the long run, I think I handled the situation, by bringing this to the attention of and finding a better way to protect our coworkers, and making sure the handbook explains the process of harassment better and make people better away of things. Action taken against the accused needed to be done as well, they can’t get away with this. The situation of the falsifying results I think by bring this up and letting the journal know and giving them the real results was a good way to handle this, but taking direct action against the accused was necessary as well, but it was risky. I found out that sometimes the best discoing on paper is not always the best one, taking things into consideration is important, this helped open my eyes up to my own place of business and making sure my employees are aware of harassment and how to handle that without problems. Very good skills to learn.

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