Unethical behavior by Dr. Md. Shamsul Arefin

1. Corruption
Unethical Behavior
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Prepared by:
Dr. Md. Shasmul Arefin
Secretary
Anti-Corruption Commission

2. What is Corruption
According to the World Bank, corruption is ‘the
misuse of public office for private gain”.
Transparency International (TI) defines as:
“Corruption is the abuse of entrusted power for
private gain”.
 Forms of Corruption:
Bribery
Extortion
Kickback
Cronyism
Embezzlement

3. Why is Corruption Harmful?
• is unfair and harms those without power
• results in a loss of values and morality
• results in financial loss
• results in loss of trust in government, justice
and public services
• results in illegal activities, encourages
organized crime
• creates an inefficient society
• - Robert Lugolobi, Executive Director of Transparency
International

4. Case Study 1
Rahim had practiced his driving skills with his instructor for
months. It was now days before his test, and he felt he was
ready for it. He stopped the car and waited for final feedback
from his teacher.
What came next was not what he had expected. The driving
instructor told him that if he wanted to pass his test, he
would need to bribe the examiner. If Rahim would give 100
dollars to the instructor, he would happily act as go-between,
making sure the examiner received his money before the test
began.
•What do you think of this situation?
•What would you do?

5. A non-profit organisation is going to purchase a new
office building. As a result, the present office building
is sold for USD 250,000. According to government tax
regulations, the buyer must pay taxes based on the
selling price. As this is a large percentage, the
organisation makes a deal with the buyer to “reduce”
the nominal selling price to USD 150,000 on a
separate invoice, so that the buyer will pay a much
lower tax.
Case Study 2
Questions:
If you were a board member of this non-profit
organisation:
•How would you respond?

6. Your daughter was hit by a car and rushed to the
nearest hospital. You pay a lot of money for surgery,
treatment, medication and a hospital room. The
seriousness of her injuries requires that she stay in
hospital for at least a week. Despite having already paid
for her care, your daughter complains that the nurses
don’t help her when asked. You know that if you give
the nurse a few extra dollars a day she will take care of
your daughter.
Case Study-3
Questions:
•Would it be wrong to pay the nurses extra?

7. One day you are riding your motorcycle and a
police car stops you on the motorway because
you are not wearing your helmet. (The law in your
country is that everyone who drives a motorcycle
must wear a helmet.)The police officer tells you to
pay a fine of 100 USD, but will ignore the violation
if you pay him 20 USD.
Case Study 4
Questions:
•Should you pay the policeman? Why

8. You need to have your identity card processed at a
government office. Your relative happens to work at the
office, so in order to speed up the process and avoid
standing in line, you ask for her help speeding things up.
Later you give her Tk. 2000 as a gift.
Case Study 5
Questions:
•Could you or your relative’s actions be considered illegal?
•Did your action hurt others?

10. You are the managing director of an NGO and you
receive a subsidy for building a community center in one
of the villages you work in. This is a big project and the
budget is considerable. Your nephew happens to run a
construction company and he makes it very clear that he
expects you to give him the job because you are family.
You realise that if you decide not to give him the job,
problems could arise within your family and community.
Case Study 6
Questions:
•What would you do to prevent this from happening again?

11. AN HONEST PERSON WILL NOT

12. Police Verification for Passport
Reported on June 17, 2017
As you all might know the police need to verify your address when
you apply for a passport. It is common practice that the police
officers responsible for completing verification ask you to pay some
money, otherwise they might send a late or negative report about your
address.
You were asked to pay Tk.3000/- to complete your verification.
Q. what you would do ?
Case Study 7

13. The board and leadership of a mid-size NGO has been working
on designing and writing policies and procedures for their
organisation. They have given everybody in the organisation a
copy of these policies and procedures, but they have observed
that many of these rules are not known by their personnel or are
simply ignored.
Case Study 8
Question:
•What can they do to make sure that the new guidelines are
known and followed by everybody in the organisation?

14. You are responsible for all purchases in a large company.
You have to buy 5 new Toyota Hiace Vans. You ask
three car dealers for their best offers. One of these dealers
is a good friend of yours and he offers you free
maintenance for your private car if you accept his offer.
You accept this offer and he sells the vans to the
company.
Case Study 9
Questions:
•Can you suggest a policy and/or a procedure that deals
with these issues?

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What is ethical behavior?
How Admin can respect core or universal values:
Respect for human dignity
• Create culture that values employees, customers, and suppliers.
• Keep a safe workplace.
• Produce safe products and services.
Respect for basic rights
• Protect rights of employees, customers, and communities.
• Avoid anything that threatening safety, health, education, and living
standards.
Be good citizens
• Support social institutions, including economic and educational
systems.
• Work with local government and institutions to protect environment.

16.  Bullying?
 Sexual Harassment?
 Discrimination?
 Violence?
 Mistreatment?
 Incivility?
Unethical Behavior

17.  Repeated unreasonable behaviours
 Ongoing humiliating, offending, intimidating
or hostile behaviour, which occurs repeatedly
over a period of time where the victim has
difficulties defending themselves, most often
due to a power imbalance of some sort
between victim and oppressor.
BULLYING

18.  Three subtypes of behaviour:
 Gender harassment – Broad range of verbal and nonverbal
behaviours not aimed at sexual cooperation but that convey
insulting, hostile and degrading attitudes about women / men.
Unwanted sexual attention – Wide range of verbal and non verbal
behaviour of a sexual nature that is offensive, unwanted and
unreciprocated by the victim.
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 Sexual coercion – the extortion of sexual cooperation in return
for job related considerations – may be considered a form of
‘blackmail’.
Sexual harassment

19.  Gender harassment
 suggestive stories – 4.7%
 Made crude sexual remarks– 4.7%
 Unwanted sexual attention
 Attempted to discuss sex 3.7%
 Sexual coercion
 Made it necessary to cooperate with them to
be well treated – 4.7%
 Made you afraid of poor treatment if you did
not cooperate – 3.7%
Sexual harassment

20.  Male (71.6%)
Position
 Equal position : 59%
 Below position : 8%
 Administrative / Managerial: 8%
Sexual harassment

21.  A range of verbal and nonverbal abusive
behavior intended to intimidate, humiliate,
obstruct, and undermine the victim.
 Verbal abuse
 Work obstruction
 Emotional neglect
 Uncivil behaviours , rude and discourteous,
 displaying a lack of regard for others.
Mistreatment

22. Practices of Unethical Behavior
We are all guilty of it...
—Cell phone use.
—Internet use for personal matters.
—Extended breaks.
—Chatting with co-workers about social issues rather than work.
—Personal telephone calls.
● 86.6% of employees had ignored someone at work at least once and nearly 16% of
employees were actively rude to colleagues sometimes or more frequently.
● Over half of employees (55.3%) had taken things from work at least once.
● 21.4% of employees had ignored HR policies or procedures.
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22.1% of employees had sometimes or more frequently taken a sick day when they were
well enough to work.

23. Personal Internet Usage: Our Challenge
● 77% of people check their Face book account on work
computers.
● 20% of men admit to viewing
pornography at work.
● 4% of men spend 1-2 hours per day gambling at work.
● 56% of people spend 30 minutes each day researching
office betting pools.
● Employers lose $6.5 billion due to fantasy football.
● 77% of brides-to-be admit to using work hours to plan
their wedding.
● 49% of people shop online while at work

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Factors influencing ethical managerial behavior—the person,
organization, and environment.

25. Your Role as a Manager
● Create ethical and moral value statements.
● Discuss ethics to the employees during reviews.
● Reinforce good ethical behavior.
● Retain good ethical employees.
● Make ethics a priority when hiring.
● Make yourself present and visible.
● Include Code of Conduct. Complaints procedure, Respect
 Individual level e.g. formal and informal reporting, grievance
procedures, counseling, suspension, investigation, discipline,
coaching etc.
 Be aware of your own behaviour
 Top managers serve as ethical role models.