Critical Reflection on Workplace Ethical Issue

Question: Discuss about the Discrimination While Allocating Work in the Project. Answer: Introduction According to Lucas, Wee and Maat (2016), study of Ethics is very important for keeping the activities of an individual appropriate and correct. There is a misconception among various people about what is ethically correct and what is not. People generally makes their intuition and presumptions for thinking what is right and what is wrong. The modern philosophy is not about the belief and opinions rather it is about the argumentative statements and reasoning (Goodall 2014). The following essay has been made for explaining about an ethical dilemma or issue that I had to faced during my last year project work. I would explain the story of ethical dilemma and then critically evaluate it on the ethical theory of Teleology, Consequentialism, and Deontology. Description of the Ethical issue Description of the issue: I had to work in a group project last year and it weighted a considerable portion of marks for the semester. The team was formed depending upon the topic that we wanted to work on. A team of 7 members were formed and it was decided that we would select a team leader for the project. One of the members was selected as the team leader based on the voting process. Involved person: The team leader and her friends were the involved person who did discrimination with me and my friends. Location of the situation: The situation took place at my university last year while doing project operations. Explanation of the situation: The team leader was assigned the responsibility of dividing the work among team members based on their skill and interest. It was fair enough to divide the major hard works of the project among two or three members and easy and simple task to an individual. However, when we went to talk to the team leader, she told us that she has already divided the work among her friend of the team and we should just stay away from the major works. She told us that her friends were more capable for doing all the important works than us. Conflicted and violated values and norms: The ethical issue that I had to face during my last years project was discrimination in allocation and distribution of work. The discrimination among team and biased decisions are very unfruitful, unfair and unethical for the person suffering due to the discrimination. Description of thoughts and feelings: It was very biased decisions as the work done by us would carry high amount of credits and if we would not do any major work, we would be scored low. Her discrimination would have ultimately led to prove fatal for us, if we would not have taken any step. Description of what I did: Since the project was an important one and it would help in our future researches and projects, me and two of my friends had been very excited and decided to talk to the team leader for starting the project early on. We tried to convince her that we needed some part of the major work and we would do it without any problem. She can trust us for the work we wanted to complete in given time. However, all our requests were going in vain. Finally we stood up against her and talked to our teacher for letting me and two of my friends do another project alone. The teacher was worried that it was not enough time for completing the project. However, we somehow convinced out teacher and started working out alone. Rate of my decision: I would rate my decision as 10 (= very happy). It was a big challenge for us to somehow manage the project with such short span of time. But the teacher helped a lot and out mutual encouragement also helped us to complete the project in the stipulated time. We had somehow scored good enough in the project. Analysis of the Ethical theories The three ethical theories on which the ethical dilemma would be evaluated are Teleology, Consequentialism, and Deontology. The explanation of the issues on the basis of the mentioned three ethical theories are provided below, Evaluation of the ethical dilemma on Teleology theory: The teleology is an ethical theory that deals with the concept of what is seek at the end (Berker 2013). The teleology is the study of the final outcomes of any situation or activity. For example: the final goal of the seed is to become a grown plant/tree. According to Perner and Esken (2015), the theory explains the responsibilities that would be helpful for the attenuation of the goals. The ethical dilemma had shown that the team leader had not followed the teleology theory and distributed the work in a biased way. Her work division was unethical and she had not followed her ultimate goal of successful unbiased distribution of the work among all team members. My friend and I had followed the teleology theory and anyhow completed the new project within the stipulated time for achieving our final goal of working for the project completion. Evaluation of the ethical dilemma on Consequentialism theory: According to Sverdlik (2016), the consequentialism theory is also similar to the teleology theory and it depicts the final outcome for any activity. The morality of the action is evaluated on the basis of the outcome from the activity. The consequentialism theory is largely dependent on the actions of the people and it analyzes the final result and affect of the activities (Goldman 2015). The ethical dilemma and the case scenario have shown that the unfair distribution of the work had resulted in bad effect on us. We had to face problem for getting marks in final exam. The issue had discussed the abiding of non consequentialism theory by the team leader. We had tried to make her understand the issues we would have to face due to her activities. However, we had finally done what was right and made a separate project for us. Our activity for making a separate project was abiding the theory of consequentialism. Evaluation of the ethical dilemma on Deontology theory: Deontology is the ethical theory that explains the obligation and duty of an individual (Thomas 2015). The morality of the action based rules and duty had been useful for the deciding of the activity to be morally appropriate or not. The team leader had been avoiding the Deontology theory of working properly for distribution of the work among team members. We had done what was right and submitted another project separately for getting our deserving marks. The deontology theory had been followed by us for doing what is right Reflection I had to face the ethical issue of discrimination in work division in project at the university that would have lead to attaining of low scores in the semester. The theory of consequentialism had been helpful for making me happy with my decision. Consequentialism theory explains that our actions should be morally appropriate and the outcome should not hurt anyone. We at first had tried to make our team leader understand the importance of project and she should make us involved in the project too. However, after failing in that, we made our own project and it resulted in assisting us to get good marks for the project. None of the theory mentioned above (Teleology, Consequentialism, and Deontology) had made me unhappy with my decision. The reason behind it is that whatever I did was ethically appropriate and it was for the best. We had tried to convince her to make us an integral part of the project. However, she unethically sidelined us and kept the favor to her friends. It was unfaithful and inappropriate to do. Hence, my friends and I had done a separate project by ourselves. None of our actions were unethical or bad. If I would face any situation like this again, I would opt for doing the same thing again. At first I would try to make the team leader understand the situation from our perspective and point of view. If she/he would understand our problem, I would not have to do anything like that again. However, if the scenario would be like that, I would definitely do the same thing with the consent of the teacher. Conclusion I would like to conclude my assignment with highlighting the importance of being ethically correct and appropriate. 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