Ethical Dilemma

Ethical Dilemma

Kesia Mulrain

BSHS/332

October 22, 2012

Tanisha Laidler

Ethical Dilemma

Values and ethics are very important in a workplace. How a person deals with ethics and values within a professional environment will determine how successful a person will be on a job (Kerns, 2003). Our personal beliefs also have an impact on how one will deal with other individuals on an everyday basis in a work environment. How an individual solves an ethical dilemma at a workplace plays a role in his or her personal values. This paper will provide an example of a dilemma at a workplace; explains how the dilemma intersected with one’s personal values and how one solved the dilemma.

The essential points of the dilemma

A Person’s personal belief can have an impact on how he or she deals with other individuals on an everyday basis. Personal beliefs can also affect how one thinks about another person. There was a time when I had to make an important decision at my workplace and had to challenge my ethics and values. My parents taught me respect, and honesty. My cultural orientation is to communicate my feelings in a respectful, non-offensive, and genuine way to avoid hurting someone else’s feeling. I had to challenge my personal values before I accepted a position to as a substitute teacher at a charter school with a 90% Somali population. The charter school is in a neighborhood mostly populated by Somalian. American children also attend the school but the majority of the students are from Somalia. I was told a requirement is: Female staff had to wear long dresses because it shows respect toward the Somali culture. Most of the female teachers are American except the ESL teacher, she is Somalian. American female student who attended the school also had to wear long skirts or dresses. My personal value is: always respect others; but I live in the United States and I am accustomed to wearing what I want. I felt as though I was force into a culture that was not my...