challenges and issues the organization faces

Every day lot of people walking into the workplaces in SriLanka. Recently more than 50%
of workers are personally witnessed to the forms of ethical misconducts, based on the recent
survey which has conducted by Washington, D.C.-based Ethics Resources Centre (ERC).
There are some unethical behaviors observed most frequently around the workplaces.

1. Misuse of company times

Whether this covers to someone who is showing up altering or the late time sheets, misuse
the company times top the lists. It 8s including know that the company’s workers is doing
their personal businesses during the company times. Through the "personal businesses"
recognized the differences between make cold call to advance their freelance businesses
and call their spouse for finding out how their sick baby is doing.

2. Abusive behaviours

Lot of workplace may filled with the supervisors and managers who are using those
positions and powers for mistreating or disrespecting others. Unfortunately, if not the
situations they are in involve races, origin of ethnic or gender, no legal protections are often
there against the abusive behaviours at the workplaces.

3. Employees theft

Many employees are stealing from those employers. Employees fraud can also be in the
upticks, whether their checks tamper, not record the sales for skimming, or manipulate the
expenses reimbursement.

4. Lying to the employees

The very fast way for losing the trusts of their employees can be to lie on them, yet the
employers are doing this at all time. If they are asking the employees whether those supervisor or managers
have lied to them during the last year, it might be surprised of those results. This Lying can be a unethical matter.
5. Violate the Internet Policies of the firm.
Cyber loafers. Cyber slackers. Can be the terms used to identifying the people who are surfing the internet while
they are working. it is the huge problem to the organizations. Who will have the thought that check of the Twitter
or Facebook accounts can become as the ethical issues. Violate the Internet policies of company can be unethical.

Causes to the unethical behaviors at an organization

When they are positing that resources constraint, profits & the survival motive underpins the more
unethical behavior sat the organizational management, the axiom stretching of “customers being the
Queen or King” (Dzansi 2003), are being performed in concerts for make the unethical practice at the
organizational management, general places. Dzansi (2003) has further reported that the survival will
be the unethical behaviors’ root cause at many business organizations. That vulnerability will derive
from its small sizes, severe resources limitation, competitive pressure, limited markets presences
coupling with the sheer desires for making profit in whole costs. Gilman, (2003) has related the ethics
program to the complication, require the formulations of code of conducts, policy, commitments and
comportments with the laws, coupled with the requirement of the implementation of proper structure,
program, resource, communications strategies, program evaluations & the training. Altizer (2003) has
explained that the significant gap is there between small and large organizations on the existences of
formal ethic program. It might have been so due to the high levels of media and public attentions
received by the large size organizations, lack of resource at the smaller organizations or the both
combinations.
Next cause to the unethical behavior at the organizational management, can involve the business
communication and its impacts on the cultural difference. Those are so due to the business
communication will be either between firms, between the people within the firm or between the firm
& public (Brown and Navran 2003).

Other unethical practice pervade the organizations, which will be committed for satisfying a “demand”
or another, including outright cash stealing & hiding; lading and teeming (DTEGROUP, 2004);
physical stock concealments; improper expenses allocations on the financial statement; figures
falsification; manipulations of the telex for sending out wrong information, e.g. bank transferred the
money from the corporate account to the fictitious account; destroy the financial record; Inflations of
contract; False valuation: “windows dressing”; reconstructions and Liquidations; customs’ duties;
bunkering and oil explorations; over-invoice and foreign exchanges tax evasions and avoidances;
“cook the book”; “cute accounting” (McQuaig and Bille 1997; Navran and Pittman 2003; Brown 2003;
Brewster, Dowling, Carey, Grobler, Holland and Warnich 2003).