Running Head: What This Manager Didn’t Do!

Ethical Dilemma What This Manager Didn’t Do Principles of Organizational Behavior Professor B. Code December 6, 2006

First of all, what is a manager? Stephen P. Robbins’ states, that “a manager is an individual who achieve goals through other people. They make decisions, allocate resources, and direct the activities of others to attain goals. Managers do their work in an organization. This is a consciously coordinated social unit, composed of two or more people that functions on a relatively continuous basis to achieve a common goal or set of goals (Robbins 4-5).” Research has proven that managers must have skills to be effective and efficient in organizations. Organizations can be schools, church, and work, etc. therefore any group with two or more people. We will look at what it takes to be a manager and how to handle ethical dilemmas in the work place. In 2005 I was tired of working night shift at a state facility that operated on a twenty-four hour basis. So I was sharing this information with someone about the on going situation and they offered me a job as an assistant manager of a fast food restaurant. I was very thrilled because it was a manager’s position and had the opportunity to work the hours I wanted to work. It didn’t seem to matter to the employer that I didn’t have the necessary qualifications. Needless to say I had interviewed with the owner and the supervisor of the restaurant, I had the job. My intuition told me that I wasn’t qualified but I took the job anyway, not knowing what would be the outcome or what my supervisors expected from me as an assistant manager. I had learned the operations of the restaurant fairly quickly, but I knew I lacked the qualities that were expected of me.