Ethical Dilemmas at Workplace - Case Study Example

Lens Paper 2 Mackenzie and Elena, sorority’s president, saw other sorority people talking in the hallway during lunch time. Elena was irritated, and she wanted to report this behavior to recruiting council yet Mackenzie was reluctant to tell because she did not want break the relationship with those people. The rules for recruitment were fair and strict and for everyone to enjoy a free and fair recruitment process then the rules must be followed. However, some of the interviewees were Mackenzie’s friends and she reluctantly ignored them after breaking the rules.

Using Kant’s deontology, an analysis of the actions of Mackenzie and Elena reveals that Mackenzie merely concerned about consequences that are not recommended while Elena made her decision correct from a sense of duty. There exists a dilemma on whether this issue should be forwarded to the council or the matter should just be ignored. When people are making decision, stakeholders must be considered. In the case, all sororities are stakeholders because fairness is not existed when one small group break the rules.

Furthermore, those recruits are also stakeholders given that they have additional interaction with people in sororities. In the view of Mackenzie, she might just care about her own advantage, but from the perspective of Elena, she considered most of stakeholders’ benefits include herself. Kant explains: “One ought only to act such that the principle of one’s act could become a universal law of human action in a world in which one would hope to live” (13). Ethical dilemmas exist at workplace especially because most of them happen to our dear friends.

Mackenzie is in a dilemma on whether to reject the whole recruitment process just because a few of the interviewee’s ignored the basic rule. Although it seems like a tedious and troublesome process it is the right channel that must be followed. The rules said that in order to have a fair process for everyone, sorority members had to stay indoors to avoid mixing with the rest. This is the rule and for Mackenzie to be fair and just to the rest of the sorority members she has abandon the recruitment process and report the matter to the recruiting council although it is not her fault and she has not broken any rule.

By doing this she will also be showing her loyalty to the company. Elena on the other hand is right and she had made the right decision by advising Mackenzie to abandon the recruitment process. Works Cited Jennings, Marianne Moody. Business Ethics Case Studies And Selected Readings. Mason: South-Western Cengage Learning, 2012. Print.