The document discusses ethical dilemmas faced in the workplace, including maintaining confidentiality and privacy, and conflicts between self-determination and work obligations. It provides examples from the author's experience at ICICI Bank and Ernst & Young of challenges balancing work demands with personal boundaries, such as being asked about personal life and taking unnecessary trips with clients. The author refused certain requests and ensured work on government projects was completed despite facing pressures to stop work.

1. Ethical complexity
By Nishi Malhotra

2. Ethical Complexity
• Deciding what is morally right and what is wrong ?
• Difference between what one is suppose to do and what one is doing ?
• Conflict between right to self determination
• Conflict about the right to confidentiality & Privacy

3. Academic & Work Experience
(ICICI Bank)
• Ethical Dilemma – As the work place is more interested in my Personal Life
• Extremely difficult to maintain Confidentiality & Privacy
• Sense of insecurity & desperation among superiors
• Sense to dominate and assert
• Autocratic Work Culture
• Lack of work ethics
• Tendency to Dominate

4. Confidentiality & Privacy
 During my stint at Ernst n Young LLP, I was working on Business Process Re engineering was asked to quietly wind up the project on electrification of Agricultural markets
in Jaipur, Rajasthan
 I was met with violence, abuses and pressures of all kind
 With the sense of duty, I completed my Draft Proposal Request and Request For Proposal
 Even the Executive Director of Ernst n Young asked me to stop of the project
 However, made sure I completed my work on all Government projects
 I was asked to do unnecessary trips with the clients, which I refused
 I also refused to take Gift and Sweets offered IN A BOX