Question

What Can I Do About Unethical Behavior?

Most of us are likely to witness, if we haven’t already, questionable and/or blatantly unethical conduct at work. While it is common for us to ignore ethical incidents that we witness and to rationalize our lack of corrective action, we must remember that ignoring ethical issues at work can have far-reaching consequences. This activity is important because as an employee or a manager, you will undoubtedly face such issues and will need to confront them using one or more of the six methods discussed in Chapter 1.



The goal of this activity is for you to demonstrate your ability to apply the different methods of confronting ethical issues at work.



Read the following scenario. Then, click and drag each method for confronting ethical issues at work to the example that best describes it.



You and Alonzo are loan assistants at a local bank and you both report directly to Christine, the bank’s loan manager. You are a new employee, having only worked at the bank for a few months. Earlier today you witnessed a conversation between Christine and Alonzo that made you uncomfortable. In this conversation, Christine informed Alonzo that she would be out of the office all afternoon and that a loan form requiring her immediate signature would be arriving while she was out. She asked Alonzo to sign her name to this form and assured him that it was “no big deal” to bend the bank’s policy that loan assistants are not allowed to sign for their loan managers, because she as the supervisor was giving him permission to ignore the policy.

Answer 1

Report it to the head manger

Step-by-step explanation:

it's important to follow the policy and not bend them because it could make you get fired or in trouble and it will be on your record and it will be hard to get hired in another job because it will be on your background check