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Summarize what you believe to be the key facts in the case. Many people who apply for jobs tend to exaggerate about their past employment, education, and/or skills on their resume. The perfect name to describe such cases would be, “Puffing the Resume.” Statistics show that 25 percent of all resumes contain misstatements like fudged job titles, fabrication of jobs and false reasons for leaving a previous job. Describe your understanding of the company’s long-term ethical problems. For those companies who have hired such employees such as Dial Corporation and Honeywell should consider doing background checks to ensure that they are hiring an honest individual and all the knowledge, skills and abilities they possess are factual. Firms that specialize in background checks such as Vericon Resources will ensure that all potential hires are ready for the job that is if companies are willing to spend money on such a company. Whose interests are being served in the case? What ethical views are represented? It is in the best interest of the company that they do not hire those that have lied for having an MBA or a bachelor’s degree. It is unethical for those individuals to give false information to their employer in order to receive a higher salary or management level positions. Failing to disclose pertinent information will result in termination as done with Diana Green and Michael Oliver. What are your proposed long-term solutions to the company’s problem? A proposal to these companies that experience unethical situations would ask themselves, “The Twelve Questions,” check, and see what mishaps they can try to prevent from this situation surfacing again (pgs 21-29). In addition, use some outsourcing by hiring a company who specialize in background checks. They will be only be used when the company has already made a decision who they are going to hire. This will almost guarantee that the individual is planning to hire will be a guaranteed investment. Whose interest will be served by your solution? What ethical views are represented? Both the employer and the potential employee. The employee should not have any issues when asked if the company has permission to check their passed positions or educational background and/or if they have a criminal record. The employee should be more than willing to disclose that information. This way the employer feels comfortable hiring an honest individual and the individual knows that their employer actually cares about their well-being. Case 3.6 Summarize what you believe to be the key facts in the case. Weissman was terminated due to the following, she took a personal day against Crawford’s policy which states that she must request such day two weeks in advance and Weissman requested the day before. Weissman then filed a suit against the company for breach of contract. promissory estoppel, outrageous conduct and wrongful discharge. Crawford’s argument was that Weissman omitted one place of employment from her application and so call failed to list a former employee who had terminated her and she also filed a suit against them. Not to mention the disputes that Weissman has with her supervisors at Crawford in the past 18 months and wanting to take several unnecessary breaks. Describe your understanding of the company’s long-term ethical problems. It seems as if the company hired her without checking her references and that caused a problem from the beginning. Her demands were burdensome on the company and as soon as they started to notice it was a problem then they decided to check on her past employers and other references. This should have been dealt with before the date of hire for Weissman. Unfortunately the reason for her termination was wrong because Weissman should have been given a fair warning although her supervisor denied her personal day. Her termination should have resulted due to the falsifications on her resume and the breach of the application that was presented by Crawford. Whose interests are being served in the case? What ethical views are represented? It is in the best interest of the company because Weissman had signed an agreement that says that all the information she has provided to them was in fact true. The company had every right to terminate her. Like most companies, they have an image or reputation that they must hold and all their employees are suppose to represent the company and Weissman did the opposite by not being honest with them. What are your proposed long-term solutions to the company’s problems? The company must perform a background check as soon as they are hired instead of waiting 18 months to check if the employee’s references were legit. Also, if they are going to make a sudden decision by terminating her because she took a vacation day, they should have warned her and then terminate not to long after the warning for all the other reasons why they are terminating her. They should implement a break/lunch policy. For instance in their HR manual, they should indicate that an employee is entitled to two fifteen minute break and one hour lunch and bathroom breaks are not limited. Whose interest will be served by your solution? What ethical views are represented? Both the employee and the employer interest are being served. By using my solution, it’ll will eliminate conflict between the two in any event that the company does a background check, the sooner the better they now that there employee has told the truth the better. Stating in the Hr manual the breaks an employee is allowed to have would eliminate any questions the employee may have on what he or she is allowed to do. Case 3.11 Summarize what you believe to be the key facts in the case? A woman by the name of Marisa Baridis worked for Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter, Discover and company. She was a compliance officer for the company and felt the need to share confidential information with an outsider by the name or Jeffrey Streich who specialized in speculative stocks. Of course in return he would pay her $2500.00 dollars a tip and because it was done on a regular basis, Baridis would use that money to pay for her rent, which was about $2400.00 a month. Streich put an end to this inside trading when he was asked to wear a recorder and Baridis was indicted and was fired from her job. Describe your understanding of the company’s long-term ethical legal problems? Honestly, it’s not an ethical problem for the company but rather the individuals that were involved in this inside trading information. Braidis motto was, “If we don’t do it, someone else will” and/or “everyone else does it, so why can’t I.” The other ten individuals felt the same way as she did and they were hoping that they wouldn’t get caught. What’s more aggravating about it is she did this at her previous job and they didn’t know about it either. So, how does a company stop a perpetrator from working at their firm? Whose interests are being served in this case? What ethical views are represented? At first, Baridis was a woman who knew how to “work the ropes” and providing information to those who weren’t entitled to it. However, what goes around comes around. She got caught because when someone is being deceitful and dishonest it will eventually haunt him or her. It was good that someone was able to catch her in order to prevent any more mishaps with the company’s clients. She knew that it was unethical as she said herself, “it’s fun, and if you don’t get greedy “and” it is the most illegalest thing you can do.” As a result the company has their best interest at hand because not only will she not being working for another invest company or any other company for that matter but the company can feel better that they no longer have an employee that they cannot trust. What are your proposed long-term solutions to the company’s problems? The should definitely asked themselves the twelve questions mentioned in the book and see if they can rationalized each questions and come up with a conclusion as to how they can prevent this from happening. Baridis had also provided inside information at her previous job, therefore the company might want to give those positions that are capable of committing such act a polygraph test. If that particular state doesn’t allow that, then they should try a different alternative, like give them a cognitive exam and see what their intentions maybe. Whose interest will be served by your solution?
Approximate Word count = 5692
Approximate Pages = 22.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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