2. INTRODUCTION
Set of values, moral principles, and
standards that need to be followed by both
employers and employees in the workplace
An organization may decide to put these ethics into writing or
not—they are however meant to be followed
3. General Workplace Ethics
• Obey the company’s rules and regulations
– Some common rules are tardiness, inappropriate
dressing, and language
• Communicate Effectively
– Say you are working in a Lab/Hospital and some
Chinese patient comes in. You are not well versed in
language…What would you do?
• Develop Professional Relationship
– Building professional relation among different levels
improve productivity
4. General Workplace Ethics
• Take Responsibility
– Employees may want to save their job and are
therefore scared of taking responsibility
– Your prescribed treatment can both save or take
someone’s life but that’s part of the job
• Professionalism
– Use of informal words
– Speaking on somebody else’s behalf
– Quoting something off the record
– Blaming someone without evidence
5. General Workplace Ethics
• Accountability
– Better to keep record of things
– Financial spending without maintaining an account
may lead to wrong impressions
– Should apply equally to everyone
• Uphold Trust
– Things like missing deadlines regularly or
delivering work that needs to be revised over and
over again
6. General Workplace Ethics
• Accountability
– Better to keep record of things
– Financial spending without maintaining an account
may lead to wrong impressions
– Should apply equally to everyone
• Uphold Trust
– Things like missing deadlines regularly or
delivering work that needs to be revised over and
over again
• Show Initiative without being told
– Don’t wait your for your supervisor
7. General Workplace Ethics
• Respect Your Colleagues
– An intern, a junior, janitor, etc. all should be
treated with respect.
• Work Smarter
– Two data scientists who collect data and analyze
them.
• A smarter employee will use Formplus data collection
tool to collect data and receive real-time data analytics
• A hard-working employee will print paper-based forms
and do the hard work of sharing it to respondents.
8. Un-Ethical Workplace Behavior
• Lies
– It kills trust, affects relationships and may even
put people in trouble.
– A lot of employees start lying from their CV, by
adding experiences they didn't acquire, and the
skills they don't have.
• Taking Credit for Others Work
– A team member may have brought an idea that
helped the sales team improve their sales by
200%.
– Employees need to reduce the use of "I", but
embrace the use of " We".
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9. Un-Ethical Workplace Behavior
• Verbal Harassment/Abuse
– Employees need to stay away from using foul
language on coworkers in and out of the
workplace
– Person attending the front desk is the face of
whole organization
– Some customers may come aggressive but
keeping your calm makes you different
– Use of courtesy words is essential
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10. Un-Ethical Workplace Behavior
• Violence
– Use of force to get your way
– May come under criminal offense
• Non-Office Related Work
– Watching movies
– Checking out Social Media
– Use of Mobile Phone
– Hanging out with colleagues without reason
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11. Un-Ethical Workplace Behavior
• Extended Breaks
– A 24/7 pathology lab needs to be manned all the time
– Additional HR is hired to cover breaks and shifts
– An extended break for yourself would cut down break
time for others
• Theft
– Some people may divert company funds to their
personal account
– Presenting fake inflated invoices
– Asking commissions from vendor
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12. Un-Ethical Workplace Behavior
• Sexual Harassment
– An offense that is not limited to the workplace
alone
– A criminal offense that is tried in the court of
Law
• Corrupt Practices
– Inappropriate use of funds
– Abuse of Power
– Fake Interviews for completing formality
– Violating Merit
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13. Employers Unethical Behaviors
• Bribery
– It is common for managers, employers and
major decision-makers to use their position in
the workplace to influence the hiring decision
in exchange for money.
• Unpaid Overtime
– Some employers take advantage of desperate
job seekers and the competitive job market to
use employees' leisure time as they wish.
– Normal working time in South Korea is 12
hours
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14. Employers Unethical Behaviors
• Verbal Harassment
– It is common among employers to verbally harass
employees when they make little mistakes.
– This will reduce employee morale and
productivity
• Undue Pressure
– When employees are placed under undue
pressure, they end up trading quality for on-time
delivery.
– One day deadline for a week’s task will degrade
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15. Employers Unethical Behaviors
• Nepotism
– A common workplace corruption
– People from a certain background maybe favored
over deserving employees
• Unfriendly Work Environment
– Decreases productivity
– People may keep on leaving
• Unrealistic Expectations
– Creatives usually have it worse when it comes to
having unrealistic expectations from employees
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16. Stopping Unethical Behaviors
• Define Rules and Regulations
• Feedback/Complaint Mechanism
• List consequences and publish them
• Disciplinary Action
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