Got Ethics?
"Ethics" has to do with integrity, or "the right thing to do". What category does each of the following behaviors on the list belong?
- 1.Conducting personal business on company time (sending personal messages on company email; taking a longer lunch break to run errands).
- A.
Clearly Ethical (the right thing to do)
- B.
Not obviously ethical but maybe not really unethical either
- C.
Clearly Unethical (the wrong thing to do)
- 2.Using or taking company supplies for personal purposes (tape for gift wrapping, making Xerox copies for your child's schoolwork)
- A.
Clearly Ethical (the right thing to do)
- B.
Ethical but a little fuzzy
- C.
Clearly Unethical (the wrong thing to do)
- 3.Calling in sick when you are heading for a day at the beach to swim.
- A.
Ethical but a little fuzzy.
- B.
Clearly Ethical
- C.
Clearly Unethical
- 4.Telling or passing along an ethnically or sexually-oriented joke.
- A.
Clearly Ethical
- B.
Leaning toward Unethical
- C.
Clearly Unethical
- 5.Bad-mouthing the company or management to people outside the company.
- A.
Clearly ethical
- B.
Not obviously ethical, but not really unethical either.
- C.
Clearly unethical
- 6.Calling a customer to report a small billing error that will require your company to give them a refund.
- A.
Clearly Ethical
- B.
Ethical but a little fuzzy.
- C.
Clearly Unethical
- 7.Ignoring an organizational rule or procedure.
- A.
Ethical but a little fuzzy.
- B.
Leaning strongly toward unethical.
- C.
Clearly unethical.
- 8.Explaining behavior on the job with "nobody told me not to do this".
- A.
Clearly ethical
- B.
Clearly unethical
- C.
Ethical but a little fuzzy
- 9.Failing to follow through on something promised by a date and time, without negotiating the deadline.
- A.
Ethical but a littlefuzzy
- B.
Not obviously ethical but maybe not unethical either
- C.
Clearly unethical
- 10.Engaging in negative gossip or spreading rumors about someone you work with.
- A.
Ethical but a little fuzzy
- B.
Not obviously ethical but maybe not really unethical either
- C.
Clearly unethical
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