Workplace Ethics

Workplace ethics include characteristics such as trustworthiness, respect for others, personal responsibility for oneÆs actions, fairness in dealing with individuals inside and outside of the company, a caring and compassionate attitude, as well as good citizenship which includes a respect for the rights of others as well as a positive and enthusiastic attitude about work.

In the reading, Joanne Freeman quotes Dr. Rosenberg who suggests that business ethics is the gray area between what is legal and what is not. In my opinion, you can make this argument: There are things that are legal that are unethical, but there are few things that are illegal that are nevertheless ethical. Mohandas Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King argued that people of good conscience had a duty to violate unjust laws; and therefore some unlawful actions were ethical and moral.

The employment at will doctrine is mentioned in this article as central to any discussion of business ethics. Freeman quotes Professor Howard Engelskirchen as stating that the at-will doctri

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