Business Ethics Reflection

When champion is faced with ethical dilemmas he or she needs to look at the situation as a whole and mould what the outcome of the situation would be and to whom it may effect. As I remember facing a dilemma when asked to write this write up what came to mind was readn to decide how I was going to confront a fellow employee on knowing that she was stealing cash and that she was abusing our friendship by coming into work late on a regular basis. She was a single mom of one and was struggling to pass water ends meet only when that gave her no near to steal from the company and do non specify it right to shoot wages of our friendship.My dilemma was that of having to cut across her. This psyche took advantage of our friendship while operative together and to me that makes it harder at times to report a person to those of authority. I looked at her situation but that did non make me change my mind to report her. First, I made authentic that it was her winning the gold a nd I monitored the money for a week to determine about how much she was taking from the register so that I was equal to(p) to have something to follow up on when I reported her.I then went to my supervisor and reported the incident and asked that we both sit rarify and talk to her and explain what we know and how we know of her stealing money from the register. later the sit down with this employee we let her know that t present were consequences of her actions and that she was going to have to be let go from the company. We could have pressed charges against her but we chose non to since the amount of money was not a large amount. The moral fill in in this dilemma is that of a person taking advantage of ones friendship and that of losing a cultivation friend.This person compose our organism friends on the rakehell and looked at our friendship as it was okay to take the money and that nothing would happen to her since we were friends. The issue I had to face here was that of our friendship and how it would partake our families and then I had the obligation of being the status music director of reporting her since I was the one in charge of the stain and responsible of what goes on in there. I as the office manager had to make my priorities to the company since her taking money could possible affect business.Yes, the money was not a large amount but after taking money for a number of days or weeks it could potentially affect profits. This person to me did not guess of our friendship by doing what she did because if she had she would have not compose me in that situation in the first place. She did not value our friendship and she did not value her job and not to mention the come in that she had put me in. Also she did not value the job that she had and put her family in harm by possibly being sent to jail for stealing.To me she did not think that she had to follow the rules of the company and that she even though she did get caught was sinister but was she sorry for getting caught or was she sorry she was losing her means of getting extra money? I am not as close to this person anymore because if she could do that then whos to say she would not try to steal from me and my family? Social pressure does affect how people put themselves in certain situations when it comes to business. This person used her struggling to raise a child on her own to think that it was alright to steal money to make ends meet.Instead of going to the boss and asking for extra hours or even a raise to make more money she immovable to take it in to her own hands and to steal money. With how expensive it is now-a-days to make ends meet people do things that they would not normally do much(prenominal)(prenominal) as stealing but that does not make them morally right. If I were to be faced with this type of situation again I think I would have done the same thing and reported it to the proper authorities. I would not want to put my job on the line t o make sure a friendship stayed intact.I would have likely try to see warning signs and ask that person if there was anything I could do to help out or try to get that person more hours at work. I work from home so right now I am not put in situations such as that but thinking back I would most definitely take the same actions. I would also make sure not to work closely with good friends so that I am not put in such a situation. Keeping a working consanguinity but not one of a social relationship outside of work will help to keep me from having to be put in the type of dilemma.