QUESTIONS:

1.  There are many ethical issues about which people hold very strong opinions—abortion, gun

control, and the death penalty, to name a few. If you were a team member on a project with someone whom you knew held an opinion different from yours on one of these issues would it affect your ability to work effectively with this person? Why or why not?

Ans:

Honestly, it depends on how things going on between me and the other person, since I don’t want to judge a person especially in first sight, when I don’t know her/him so much. For me, it’s okay to have different opinions in some ethical issues like abortion, gun control and etc. as long as she/he knows the limitation of what he/she will going to say. It doesn’t affect my ability to work effectively because I understand that work is work and if you don’t like your co-worker or you have misunderstanding every time you talk to each other then, that is out of the job itself. Maybe our argue will become a problem to me but instead of pressuring myself on having conflict and understanding her/him, I should probably focus on my job, with what I work.

2.   Identify two important life experiences that helped you define your own personal code of

ethics.

Ans:

                The two important life experiences that helped me define my own personal code of ethics are: first: when I met someone that is friend of my friend, I don’t know her totally! But since I become fc to her, FC meaning “Feeling Close”, I joke her and she becomes angry. She is not a fan of jokes and I apologize for what I did. The lesson there is if you don’t know or you don’t have idea of a person’s personality or even attitudes, likes and dislike then, you should not be “FC”. And the code of ethics there is, observe and know a person and respect them at first met. The second is: when I met my teacher outside the school. The statement reminds me of one of my teacher in high school were I did not greet. In our class, she said to me that she is upset for what I did. So the personal code of ethics that reminds me in that experience is be polite, inside and outside of any institution you become part with.

3.   Do you think that the importance of ethical behavior in business is increasing or decreasing?

Defend your position.

Ans:

                For me, I think it’s decreasing because as what I have observed, in some businesses although not all, they treat customers in accordance to its life status which is unethical because it should be fair. It is also decreasing because even the employee of some businesses shows unethical behavior like they says rumors against each other to get a higher position in other words, even them, themselves create conflict, and disrespect each other which is unethical just to be in the highest position. The importance of ethical behavior in businesses is decreasing even though many have the knowledge of what it is.

4.   Do you believe that an organization should be able to escape criminal liability for the acts of its employees if it has acted as a responsible corporate citizen, making strong efforts to prevent and detect misconduct in the workplace? Why or why not?

Ans:

                Yes, because if all of the employees in an organization knows their responsibility and they try  their best to avoid and prevent conflict then, criminal liability in an organization will be escape. The main reason why there is conflict is the misunderstanding because everyone is acting as an irresponsible citizen. Bottom-line, misunderstanding creates conflicts and that conflict leads to criminality. As irresponsible people increases then the probability of a higher criminal liability also increases. In other words they are directly proportional to each other.

5.    Is it possible for an employee to be successful in the workplace without acting ethically?

Ans:

                Of course a big NO! Ethics is important in everyone’s life; it teaches us what is right and what is wrong. It serves as bases of our every action and it is very impossible for an employee to be successful in his/her workplace without acting ethically. If

6.    Should software piracy within the boundaries of third-world countries be tolerated to allow those countries an opportunity to move into the information age?

Ans:

                Actually no, but software piracy is rampant whether we admit it or not. Yes, it is a big help to the country who are not that rich enough to create and produce software’s that will satisfies the needs of every people. But, on the other hand, it is wrong to copy software’s because we should purchase it. But I just have a question, if they don’t want others to copy there software then why they didn’t make it secure and to make sure that it can’t be copied? Anyways, it is not my problem, it’s them and I just want to express ideas here.

7.     Is ethics training really just a waste of time that will not change the behavior of employees?

Ans:

                Ethics training is not a waste of time; it’s the trainee that waste time. Why did I say this? It’s because people are different and it depends on them whether they want to learn and be a responsible person with ethical values within their works. It is not really a waste of time, because you will learn something new, something that you thought is right, when it seems to be so wrong. Ethics training can help a person to improve his/her attitudes and behavior towards minggling with the people they met in their everyday life, like in work, in school and etc.