Step 1: Select a topic not specifically discussed in class from the Unique Ethic

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Step 1: Select a topic not specifically discussed in class from the Unique Ethical Issues from weeks 3, 5, 7.

Step 2: Write a brief one page paper that introduces the unique ethical issue that will be researched and identify the ethical dilemma that will be discussed.

Step 3: Provide 10 scholarly or credible resources that you will use in the paper as supporting documentation. Three of the resources will come from the class readings.

Your final assignment this term is a paper on a unique ethical issue chosen from the Unique Ethical Issues found under Content Weeks 3, 5, and 7. You'll be asked to research the topic and discuss the ethical dilemma in detail. You are asked to submit a short one-page max paper in the Assignments Folder by midnight this Sunday telling me what issue you plan to write about and the ethical theories you plan to discuss relevant to it. A simple list of ethical theories will suffice. I just want to make sure you (1) actually pick an issue that is listed, and that (2) you are on the right track with your ethical theories. To make it easier for you to select an issue, I've listed them here for you:

Individual:

Whistleblowing: Redefining Ethics

Snowden and the Ethics of Whistleblowing

Employee Behavior Standards in the Workplace

Should Companies Monitor Their Employees Social Media

Common Ethical Workplace Dilemmas

Moral Issues Facing Employees

Organizational:

Genetic Engineering in the Workplace, Read My Genes: Genetic Screening in the Workplace

Ethics and Genetics: Susceptibility Testing in the Workplace

Why Privacy Matters

Big Chocolate Child Labor

What Will a Future Without Secrets Look Like?

Apple Failing to Protect Chinese Child Labor

Marketing Ethics  

Marketing to Children: Accepting Responsibility

Ethical Marketing - Explore the Strategy of Ethical Marketing

Is Business Bluffing Ethical?

Getting to the Bottom of the Triple Bottom Line

Ethics and the Triple Bottom Line

21st Century:

Harnessing the Power of Corporate Culture (Developing Leaders for a Sustainable Global Society).

The Ethical Dimension of Sustainability

Value-Led Business/Show me the money: How sustainability Creates Revenue at Bloomberg

When Innovation Outpaces the Law

Information Ethics (Picking up Where Laws Leave Off)

Social Media Changing the Rules of Business Ethics

Ethics in the Provision and Use of IT for Business

Teaching Robots to Lie, Cheat, and Deceive

*Once you choose the topic that you want to write on

Explanation / Answer

I have chosen the topic “Should Companies Monitor Their Employees Social Media”. With the popularity of social media websites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat etc and many more new social media sites coming up, it is only natural that people would be using one or more of these sites on a regular basis. Studies are being conducted by these sites as well as other organizations on human behavior and character mapping of people based on their interactions on social media sites. Many companies hiring programs include checking a person’s social media pages to get an idea of the type of persona and to identify any alarming behaviors or also any positive behavioral characteristics. With the increase in usage, companies are concerned that an employee may divulge company information via social media or that the employee may be looking for another job, or the employee is undergoing some emotional stress that is affecting his / her work etc. Hence many companies have started monitoring their employees social media and sometimes, even terminating the employee based on what is posted on their social media page. However, the question of a person’s right to privacy and the fact that social media pages are used for personal life throw up the question of ethics. Is it ethical for companies to monitor employees social media.

The ethical theories that I would be using to discuss this issue are the following.

Rights ethics, the rights established by a society are protected and given the highest priority. Rights are considered to be ethically correct and valid since a large population endorses them. Individuals may also bestow rights upon others if they have the ability and resources to do so.

Care ethics focuses ethical attention on relationships before other factors. As a result, acting rightly involves building, strengthening, and maintaining strong relationships. Acting rightly thus displays care for others and for the relationships of which they are a part. To care ethicists, relationships are fundamental to ethical thinking.

Utilitarianism holds that the amount of happiness and suffering created by a person’s actions is what really matters. Thus, acting rightly involves maximizing the amount of happiness and minimizing the amount of suffering around you. Sometimes you may even need to break some of the traditional moral rules to achieve such an outcome.

Virtue ethics states that character matters above all else. Living an ethical life, or acting rightly, requires developing and demonstrating the virtues of courage, compassion, wisdom, and temperance. It also requires the avoidance of vices like greed, jealousy, and selfishness

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