Assignment 2: Workplace Ethics
Danielle Davis
Professor Kenneth A. Pino
BUS 309: Business Ethics
Abstract Regardless of your occupation, employees have the right to privacy. Case 9.1: Unprofessional Conduct shows how Pettit privacy was violated. Pettit was a teacher of many years and never had a bad evaluation of her work. What she did outside of work was labeled unprofessional by the Board of Education and they chose to fire her because they believed she was unfit to teach. I disagree with them completely and they did violate her privacy.
Business Ethics is defined as “the study of what constitutes right and wrong (or good and bad) human conduct in a business context” (Shaw, 2014, p. 4). Based off this definition, I believed
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I wouldn’t want people spying on me outside of my workplace. We should be able to live our lives without people being in our business. Pettit was just doing what she like outside of work and it was not affecting her job. In my opinion, Pettit’s behavior was not unprofessional nor immoral and I don’t believe she was unfit to teach. Pettit’s professionalism should be regarding her character at or dealing with work not in her personal life. Pettit had no problem performing her job. She was an experienced teacher who haven’t had any negative evaluations. Pettit acting unprofessional was never an issue while she was a teacher. People may call her unprofessional if they saw her taking part in her sexual activities outside or work but that had nothing to do with her character at work. She kept her personal life private and away from her career. The Board of Education chose to break into her personal life to spy on her. She did nothing wrong and I believe she was professional if regarding to her work life. I choose not to judge people so I cannot say that Pettit was immoral. Who are we to say if she was doing the wrong of right thing? Her sexual preference is her own business and she kept it private. The Board of Education had no clear evidence of Pettit’s professionalism and no evidence to prove that she was unfit to teach. If teachers have
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The Alaska Code of Ethics for teachers contain many points that deal with normative and applied ethics. I drew this conclusion because many of the topics within the code lead to things that explain how things should be done or if situations arise, it explains how they should be handled. These more general ideas provide a framework, which grounds these ethics (Moral Philosophy, 2009). From there the Alaska Code of Ethics spirals down to more specific terms and situations. This is when the code gets into more applied ethics (Moral Philosophy, 2009). The Alaska Code of Ethics seems to speak to the personal values and morals of those for whom they are intended. This can be seen in many of the codes such as, ?The educator may not engage in physical abuse of a student or sexual conduct with a student and shall report to the commission knowledge of such an act by an educator? (Alaska Department of Education & Early Learning, 2000). This is just one example of how Alaska?s code asks educators to abide not only by the professional code of ethics, but to also base their actions and judgments on their personal values and ethics. Teachers, in their responsibility to society, must work in order to not betray that trust (Nelson, Palonsky, & McCarthy, 2010). The knowledge of this responsibility is obvious throughout the Alaska Code of Ethics.
You are a Licensed Professional School Counselor working in a middle school in North Carolina and one of my former students Tierra has graduated and has come by my office to share her plans after graduation. While talking with her, she has informed me that she had been romantically involved with her high school counselor, Zack for most of her senior year in high school but that they had recently decided to just be friends. Tierra also stated they had not been involved sexually, and had not gone any further than kissing.
I completely agree with your post that Harriet should keep the information to herself until it is released to the public. She would be committing a crime if she uses the information she received at a personal advantage from her job to her own benefit. Harriet is ethically and legally responsible to not take this opportunity to benefit herself and wait for the general public to be able to invest in the opportunity
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Personally, I do not have a feeling that Mrs. Pettits behavior was not immoral although I strongly feel that the behavior was unprofessional. As a teacher, Mrs. Pettits has a right to have a private life but when she goes on and displays that privacy in public eye places her in a risky position that will lead to serious consequences that will accompany her behaviors (Shaw, 2011). In this, it is important to note that in the eyes of the public, sex has been, and will still remain to be considered as a private act that is always shared in the presence of a persons own home. As such, it is very clear that the teacher went ahead and let her sex life to affect her reputation that generally lead to her being punished by the school.
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