Unit VI Prevalent Moral Issues and Dubious Practices in the Workplace

Question 1

Unethical Practices on the part of Employers

Answer 1

1. Sexual Harassment
2. Bribing Government Officials
3. Paying Employees below Minimum Wages
4. Tax Evasion
5. Resisting and Interfering with Trade Union
6. Cutthroat Competition
7. Employing Children
8. Double Standard
9. Favoritism
10. Entertaining Gossip/ Malicious Talk/ Backstabbing
11. Insulting Employees in Public

Question 2

The authority, position and influence of employers open opportunities for them to ask sexual favors or make sexual advances from their employees.

• Most of the time the victims are women, although occasionally they can also be the men.

Answer 2

Sexual Harassment

Question 2

are used by employers to bag public contracts without going through the usual bidding
process

Answer 2

Lagay “kickbacks” porsiyento or komisyon

Question 3

exchange for cornering
some highly profitable business deal or project.

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Bribing Government Officials

Question 4

the lack lternative employment is exploited by some decadent employers to keep wages low. They force their employees to sign payrolls that reflect minimum wages in order to conceal the unethical or illegal practices

Answer 4

Paying Employees below Minimum Wages

Question 5

Some wealthy employers pay private accountants to find brilliant ways in which they can best
evade paying the right taxes. These employers, in cahoots with unscrupulous revenue officials,
go to the extent of forging public documents to hide real properties and income.

Answer 5

Tax Evasion

Question 6

A traditional source of profit for profit-hungry employers

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exploitation of labor.

Question 7

were born out of the need to protect workers from this exploitation.

Answer 7

Trade unions

Question 8

, with union leaders whose loyalty in reality go to management is another case of decadent employers making
a mockery of the labor code

Answer 8

Yellow labor unions

Question 9

Employer-businessmen are generally driven by profit and are generally selfish. They compete
voraciously and, as much as possible, do not want any of their kind sharing the market.

Answer 9

Cutthroat Competition

Question 10

Common Practices Related to Unethical Practices of Cutthroat Competition

Answer 10

1. Business Espionage
2. Infringement
3. Negative Advertising
4. Pirating Employee

Question 11

• is committed when a company spies and steals valuable or
  essential information from other competing companies.

Answer 11

Business Espionage

Question 12

• is committed when one tries to imitate, reproduce or counterfeit another company’s registered product

Answer 12

Infringement

Question 13

• the term is used to refer to any kind of advertising designed to
  destroy the image of a competitor.

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Negative Advertising

Question 14

s - it does not necessarily imply any vacancy to fill up. Rather, it
suggests inducing employees from other companies.

Answer 14

Pirating Employee

Question 15

Employers pay less wages to children, but they use these children to perform work that adult
workers usually do

Answer 15

Employing Children

Question 16

is used here to refer to the unethical practice of discrimination at the workplace.

Answer 16

Double Standard

Question 17

Discrimination may include the following:

Answer 17

1. Gender Discrimination
2. Age Discrimination
3. Disability Discrimination
4. Discrimination against gay and lesbian workers
5. Religious Discrimination

Question 18

Some employers set gender as a basis for determining who will get promoted, how much wage a worker should get, what assignment to give, and what training a worker can possibly undergo.

Answer 18

Gender Discrimination

Question 19

one of the horrors of becoming old.

There are reports about employers who cut their workforce in half, singling out older workers.

Downsizing or right-sizing is not unethical in itself. Sometimes, companies, in order to stay in business, are forced to downsize. But, if the basis of selecting who will be laid off is age, then it becomes unethical.

Answer 19

Age Discrimination

Question 20

• Not all disabled persons are unfit to work. Sometimes, some
  of them even outperform able persons in some work in the workplace. And it is unethical
  practice for some employers to discriminate against persons because of disability.

Answer 20

Disability Discrimination

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• this form of discrimination is also
  called discrimination based on sexual orientation. On the job, this form of discrimination
  painfully continues.

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Discrimination against gay and lesbian workers

Question 22

• this form of discrimination applies to the unethical and illegal
  practice of some employers to discriminate against employees for their religious beliefs
  and affiliations.

Answer 22

Religious Discrimination

Question 23

in the workplace we will find their
equivalent in the manager’s pets or some called them untouchables, bootlickers, apple polishers
or blood suckers.
Favored employers are the first people to be promoted even if they are unfit for promotions.

Answer 23

Favoritism

Question 24

are common in the workplace today largely because decadent employers approve and encourage these practices. - Some unethical employers find interest in snooping at the personal lives of their employees rather than thinking about their general welfare.

Answer 24

Entertaining Gossip/ Malicious Talk/ Backstabbing

Question 25

Scolding an erring employee is fine, as long as it is done properly. But to scold employees in public and to censure those using profane language is unspeakably unprofessional and unethical.

Answer 25

Insulting Employees in Public

Question 26

Unethical behavior on the part of employees

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Lagay Lusot Lakad Palakasan

Question 27

-is a Filipino term, which could either means “to bribe" referring to the act of giving and or receiving a tribe, or it could refers to anything given to someone to induce him to act dishonestly or spur him to work well and fast.

Answer 27

Lagay

Question 28

- means evading something, perhaps blame for an unaccomplished task, by escaping through a hole or an opening. - In workplace, it is commonly understood as the act of getting out of a "tight fix" or a difficult situation and connotes the cunning maneuver means.

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Lusot

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-refers to the unethical practice of giving preferential treatment to a particular client to unfair disadvantage of others.

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Palakasan

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it is act of an employee’s responsibilities, ignoring the rules and violating applicable laws just to right a wrong or get things done.

Answer 29

Lakad-

Question 30

Improper use of office materials

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1. Pilferage 2. Gossiping and Bootlicking

Question 31

- stealing small items owned by someone else, in this case, the employer or the company.

Answer 31

Pilferage

Question 32

- While most employees indulge in idle talk out of the pleasure they derive in minding affairs of others, some do it to gain favor from their employers who entertain, if not, encourage gossiping.

Answer 32

Gossiping and Bootlicking

Question 33

- Persons who desire to be promoted at the expense of tarnishing the image and dignity of their co-workers.

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Bootlickers or Apple-polishers

Question 34

- It comprise not only concerted work stoppages, but also slowdowns, mass leaves, and sit-downs. It can last for as short as a day or can languish for several months’ even years.

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Strikes

Question 35

- means conscious misstatements, exaggeration and or concealment of pertinent facts.

Answer 35

Bluffing

Question 36

connotes the act by an employee or a worker of exposing to the public the action of his company that he/she perceives to be wrong or contrary to the general interest of society.

Answer 36

. Whistle Blowing

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Issues of Health and Safety in the Workplace

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Deaths Injuries Diseases

Question 38

how many ILO workers worldwide die annually??, and it is presumed that over the half of these figures are from the Asian and Pacific regions.

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200,000

Question 39

As many as ??? workers worldwide are injured or become ill annually. In case of work-related fatalities, half of the estimate comes from developing countries.

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120 million

Question 40

- According to ILO, there is a high prevalence of workers suffering from work related diseases in developing countries.

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Diseases

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Unsafe Work Situations of specific Group

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1. Working Children 2. Migrant Workers 3. Disabled, Older and Indigenous Workers 4. Working Women and Mothers

Question 42

- In many sectors, working children are often involved in unsafe work. Their protection requires legislative action, education and training and assurance that at least very young children are not allowed to work.

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Working Children

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usually work in new settings, under conditions which are unfamiliar to them, and are less protected for various economic and social reasons.

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- Migrant workers

Question 44

- This special group tends to accept unsafe and unhealthy working conditions. Many of them work outside the organized sector and are not union members.

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Disabled, Older and Indigenous Workers

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This special group forms an increasing proportion of the workforce. The basic issue is to provide equal employment opportunities for both men and women.

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Working Women and Mothers

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refers to the unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice.

Answer 46

Discrimination

Question 47

refers to the unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice.

Answer 47

Discrimination