Business Ethics Reflection

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Business Ethics Reflection

Melissa Eaves

XMGT/216

5/12/2013

Craig Fowler

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Business Ethics Reflection

In this journal entry I am going to discuss an ethical dilemma that I encountered some time ago in my place of employment. I will also discuss how the dilemma was handled at that point in time and I will discuss how I would handle the dilemma now that I have become much wiser to the part that ethics really plays in the business world. Throughout this entry I am going to talk about three main points. The first point is that I will be describing the relationship among the virtues, values, and moral concepts regarding the dilemma. The second point I will discuss is how external social pressures influenced business ethics in this situation, and the third main point of discussion will be the recommendation that I would give someone if they were faced with the same ethical dilemma as I faced and if I were to face this dilemma again, how I would deal with the situation this time around.

Let me start by describing this dilemma that I encountered. A few years ago I was a manager/head waitress at a gentleman’s club. We started to get short staffed on our busy nights because one of the waitresses quit. At this point, it was my job to find good candidates for the opening. I found two girls. One had quite a few years waitressing experience and the other only had a couple of months experience in a waitressing setting. The girl with the more experience, we will call her “Brenda”, was about ten years older than the other applicant. We will call the second girl “Candy”. Candy did not have much experience but was much younger and more of what the gentleman would enjoy as far as looks. Brenda had a great personality but was not quite as pretty as Candy and I knew that once I interviewed them and passed their

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Business Ethics Reflection

applications on to the owner, whom makes the final decision and does the hiring, that he would most likely pick Candy to hire...