Work Ethics

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING
AND MATHEMATICS (STEM) STRAND
Senior High School

AT OUR LADY OF FATIMA
UNIVERSITY
ETHICS IN
WORKPLACE
“WHAT TO DO?”
My boss is a bully and hiring
like-minded people.
Ethics is becoming a question in
my organization.”
Mike,
Environmental Planner
BS Environmental Science
3
“I find few employees of my
organization, disclosing
confidential client data to our
competitors.”
Stella,
Pharmacists
BS Pharmacy
4
“Should the performance
feedback session follow a
corrective or punitive
approach?”
Stephany
Nurse , BS Nursing
5
All these are issues addressing common
workplace ethics.
Ethical Problems are inevitable in all levels of
WORKPLACE.
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
To understand what ethics
understanding can do.
To differentiate attitudes towards

work ethics.
To classify common workplace

ethical values, and :
To apply professional ethics in

workplace
CAN ETHICS
BE
TAUGHT/
LEARNED?
CAN ETHICS BE TAUGHT/LEARNED?
Yes!!
– but need a common basis.
At a minimum, professionals should:
Be able to recognize an ethical situation
Be able to identify the issues involved
Be able to identify ALL the stakeholders
Reach a reasoned ethical position AND be able to defend it.
What Ethics
Understanding
Can DO?
What Ethics Understanding Can DO?
1. Help individuals understand rationales, ideas and vocabulary

2. Help individuals make sense of their own ethical
environment
3. Provide intellectual ammunition to do battle with advocates
of economic fundamentalism and others who violate ethical
standards.
4. Enable employees to recognize and expose potentially
unethical choices within a firm.
5. Enhance moral reflectiveness and strengthen moral courage.
6. Help one handle an unethical directive from a boss
WORK ETHICS
is an invisible employee behavior,
noticeable by its absence.
WORK ETHICS
• are a set of (often unspoken
– and generally understood)
moral principles relating to a
specified group, field or form
of conduct.
• A group of moral principles,

standards of behavior or set
of values regarding proper
conduct in the workplace.
Ethics is something that is learned and chosen
throughout one's life.
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In the work place the senior management have a
responsibility to set an example that reflect the
company expectations.
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ATTITUDES TOWARD ETHICS
1.Amoral
2.Immoral
3.Moral
Amoral
• Business is business and law =
ethics
• Ethically unaware (naïve)
• Business exists only to make
money
Immoral
If you don’t get caught it isn’t wrong
Unethical for the firm / Unethical
against the firm
Moral
Ethically aware
Proactive
Code of conduct
Amoral
• Ethically unaware (naïve)
Immoral
• Unethical for the firm / Unethical against the
firm
Moral
• Ethically aware
Ethics is two- way!
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Employees, having
strong ethics in
personal and
professional life, need
no explanation, unlike
those employees for
whom work ethics is a
growing problem.
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By the time employees hit the workforce, can they be
taught things like ethics - or is it too late?
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ANY QUESTIONS?
ENGAGEMENT
TIME☺
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Ethics in the workplace
Group Practice
What Does the What do you owe your
Employer Owe you? employer?
Understanding Ethics (Brainstorming)

Within your groups answer these two questions
following this layout (List at least 8 for each) take 20
minutes and we will discuss as a class.
Ethics in the workplace
Group Practice
What Does the Employer Owe you? What do you owe your employer?
• Show up on time
• Fair & Equal Work Environment
• value your work
• Fair Pay
• refuse to look for the easy way out
• Treat employee with dignity and
respect • take pride in the results of your
work
• Safe working conditions
• Follow ALL Guidelines
• On time paycheck
• Dependable
• Harassment Free
• Avoid Gossip
• Do not steal
Work Ethics
> Work Ethics for an Employer > Work Ethics for an Employee
To provide a safe work environment for To show up on time
staff and employees To tend to company business the whole
To treat employees with dignity and time while at work
respect To treat the company’s resources,
To provide a fair wage for the services equipment and products with care
rendered To give respect to the company by
To handle all business transactions with working with honesty and integrity
integrity and honesty
TASK #1
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PERFORMANCE TASK #1
Dealing with unethical Situations-
What Would You DO?
• 5 Member each group
• Directions: Below are real list of common workplace
ethical values, simulate a real life situations that COULD
happen in the workplace regarding the assigned value
on your group and explain how you would ethically
deal with the simulated scenario.
• Due: November 25, 2019
•
Common Workplace Ethical Values
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COMMON WORKPLACE ETHICAL VALUES
1. Honesty* 6. Caring <

2. Integrity < 7. Respect/
3. Promise-keeping 8. Responsibility ☺
9. Striving for Excellence*
4. Fidelity
10.Accountability ☺
5. Fairness/
ETHICAL Points
Unacceptable (0pts) Poor (2pts) Fair (3pts) Good (5pts)
VALUES
Discussion is somewhat Presentation is Presentation shows effort. Presentation shows
lacking in basic acceptable. Discussion is Students occasionally go significant effort. Students
Creativity/ questions/answers. No use adequate, but does not beyond basic go beyond basic questions
Style of props/costumes. go beyond basic questions/answers. Some use and answers. Good use of
questions/answers. of props/costumes. props/costumes.
There are several severe There are many There are some distracting There are few errors in
errors in grammar that are distracting errors in errors in grammar, grammar, punctuation, etc.
distracting to the listener grammar, punctuation, punctuation, etc., but overall Format is correct. All re-
Script etc. meaning is still clear. enactments are written in
the script.
Article makes no attempt Article covers most of the Information is relevant,

to connect as a whole. All content but leaves out some complete, and reads like a
Little information is given parts of the required key details. Some facts are real news report. All facts
Content in the writing. information are not incorrect. are correct. Re-enactments
present. are appropriate to the story.
The group shows no The group is much The group is not well The group appears to have
previous preparation. unorganized. Members organized. Appears that they rehearsed and the
Performance do not know what they have had minimal rehearsal. performance flows
are supposed to do. smoothly. All members
know what they should be
doing.
Cooperation Group member refused to Group member had to be Group member willingly and
work on the project. redirected several times Group member participated in enthusiastically participated
to work with the group the project. in the project.
on the project.

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SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING

AND MATHEMATICS (STEM) STRAND

Senior High School

To differentiate attitudes towards

To classify common workplace

To apply professional ethics in

1. Help individuals understand rationales, ideas and vocabulary

• A group of moral principles,

Understanding Ethics (Brainstorming)

1. Honesty* 6. Caring <

Article makes no attempt Article covers most of the Information is relevant,

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