Unit VI Prevalent Moral Issues and Dubious Practices in the Workplace Flashcards
Unethical Practices on the part of Employers
- Sexual Harassment
- Bribing Government Officials
- Paying Employees below Minimum Wages
- Tax Evasion
- Resisting and Interfering with Trade Union
- Cutthroat Competition
- Employing Children
- Double Standard
- Favoritism
- Entertaining Gossip/ Malicious Talk/ Backstabbing
- Insulting Employees in Public
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.
Sexual Harassment
are used by employers to bag public contracts without going through the usual bidding
process
Lagay “kickbacks” porsiyento or komisyon
exchange for cornering
some highly profitable business deal or project.
Bribing Government Officials
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
Paying Employees below Minimum Wages
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.
Tax Evasion
A traditional source of profit for profit-hungry employers
exploitation of labor.
were born out of the need to protect workers from this exploitation.
Trade unions
, with union leaders whose loyalty in reality go to management is another case of decadent employers making
a mockery of the labor code
Yellow labor unions
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.
Cutthroat Competition
Common Practices Related to Unethical Practices of Cutthroat Competition
- Business Espionage
- Infringement
- Negative Advertising
- Pirating Employee
- is committed when a company spies and steals valuable or
essential information from other competing companies.
Business Espionage
- is committed when one tries to imitate, reproduce or counterfeit another company’s registered product
Infringement
- the term is used to refer to any kind of advertising designed to
destroy the image of a competitor.
Negative Advertising
s - it does not necessarily imply any vacancy to fill up. Rather, it
suggests inducing employees from other companies.
Pirating Employee
Employers pay less wages to children, but they use these children to perform work that adult
workers usually do
Employing Children
is used here to refer to the unethical practice of discrimination at the workplace.
Double Standard
Discrimination may include the following:
- Gender Discrimination
- Age Discrimination
- Disability Discrimination
- Discrimination against gay and lesbian workers
- Religious Discrimination
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.
Gender Discrimination
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.
Age Discrimination
- 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.
Disability Discrimination
- this form of discrimination is also
called discrimination based on sexual orientation. On the job, this form of discrimination
painfully continues.
Discrimination against gay and lesbian workers
- this form of discrimination applies to the unethical and illegal
practice of some employers to discriminate against employees for their religious beliefs
and affiliations.
Religious Discrimination
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.
Favoritism
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.
Entertaining Gossip/ Malicious Talk/ Backstabbing
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.
Insulting Employees in Public
Unethical behavior on the part of employees
Lagay
Lusot
Lakad
Palakasan
-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.
Lagay
- 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.
Lusot
-refers to the unethical practice of giving preferential treatment to a particular client to
unfair disadvantage of others.
Palakasan
it is act of an employee’s responsibilities, ignoring the rules and violating applicable laws
just to right a wrong or get things done.
Lakad-
Improper use of office materials
- Pilferage
- Gossiping and Bootlicking
- stealing small items owned by someone else, in this case, the employer or the
company.
Pilferage
- 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.
Gossiping and Bootlicking
- Persons who desire to be promoted at the expense of
tarnishing the image and dignity of their co-workers.
Bootlickers or Apple-polishers
- 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.
Strikes
- means conscious misstatements, exaggeration and or concealment of pertinent
facts.
Bluffing
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.
. Whistle Blowing
Issues of Health and Safety in the Workplace
Deaths
Injuries
Diseases
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.
200,000
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.
120 million
- According to ILO, there is a high prevalence of workers suffering from work related diseases in developing countries.
Diseases
Unsafe Work Situations of specific Group
- Working Children
- Migrant Workers
- Disabled, Older and Indigenous Workers
- Working Women and Mothers
- 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.
Working Children
usually work in new settings, under conditions which are unfamiliar to them, and are less protected for various economic and social reasons.
- Migrant workers
- This special group tends to accept unsafe and unhealthy working conditions. Many of them work outside the organized sector and
are not union members.
Disabled, Older and Indigenous Workers
This special group forms an increasing proportion of the
workforce. The basic issue is to provide equal employment opportunities for both men and
women.
Working Women and Mothers
refers to the unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice.
Discrimination
refers to the unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice.
Discrimination
