Assignment: Personal vs. Professional Ethics
Identify and research a company recently in the news which has faced one of the topics listed below:
Accounting and business reporting
Cultural diversity (Howard Gardner article)
Information security
Culture and ethics of a company
Company-client confidently
Advertising of products
Privacy and monitoring issues
Sexual harassment in the workplace
Write a paper of approximately 3 pages on the company and topic chosen in terms of both the personal and professional ethical issues that existed.
Include the following in your paper:
A description of the ethical issue faced by the company
Effects of the issue on both the personal and professional ethics of company employees
Evident resolution strategies that the company used to address the ethical issue. If they did not seek to resolve the issue, what strategies could they have used?
Recommendations on changes that you would propose in order to minimize the identified ethical dilemmas