Xmg/216 Week 1 Business Ethics Reflection

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Business Ethics Reflection Mary Lee Choate XMG/216 Due April 15, 2012 Instructor- Sharon Donnelly A time that I faced an ethical dilemma was at Wal-Mart with a worker who happened to me one on my best friends. The relationships between the morals, virtues, and value concepts in this predicament are what I believe in and will believe in for the rest of my life. There is much useful knowledge that I have obtained during my 20 years of existence whether is was through church, school, my family or friends, and just becoming a young adult. The most important concept that I learned throughout my life was to distinguish between right and wrong, and to do what is moral. This dilemma all started one day while I was at work and received a phone call from my close friend. She has several financial issues and she also has the job of raising three kids on her own. I knew something wasn’t right when she was calling me because she normally came into work when I…show more content…
I told her I couldn’t clock her in because of a few reasons. I wouldn’t be doing a moral action and I would be endangering the whole company by losing money. Also the other workers would be at risk and most of all, I would be demeaning myself. I had a mother and animals to take care of as well as myself and there was no way I was going to take a chance of losing my job over someone else’s problems. Clocking my friend in without her being there is very much the same thing as stealing from the business and it would have been extremely morally wrong. Besides the fact that I am a virtuous person, I still follow the values that are meaningful in having and by implementing this terrible act; I would have became a hypocrite of what I’ve believed in my entire life. I believe that what I do to others is how I want others to do to me, but this situation was calling for me to break the things that I believe in so

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