AN ETHICAL DILEMMA

This is John. He is the newly appointed IT

officer of company X. One day, his boss
orders him to monitor all the emails and What Sould I do ?
computer activities of his fellow employ-
ees as they are spending lot of time online
and not working.

Even thou John is new to the office, he has

formed a great bond with each and every-
one in the office.

What if John manages to find any illegal activities?

What if john follows

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Should he report that to his boss?
Bosses Order? 1. Ethical Dilemma is a complex
situation that will often involve an What if that
It will be a person is a dear
violation of apparent mental conflict between
friend of John’s
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moral imperatives, in which to obey

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the privacy Hi ! Honey ... and his boss fires

of his one would result in transgressing
that person for
colleagues. another.

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such activity?
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What if John Dosen’t follows Bosses order?

The productivity and communication amoung
the employees of john’s office will not improve.
He will not
be able
to stop
unethical
Practices
in his
company. His job as a Responsible
employee would be at risk

Ethics is According to
Code of Ethics
concerned Hobbes, “Noth-
with what is ing is objectively
good for good or evil;
individuals what pleases us
and society. is good”.

The Code of Ethics says “Engineers According to Philosophy, “Not even

the gods acts morally all the time”. The most important factor in
shall be fair to and supportive of
According to Consequentialism, an ethical dilemma is the persons
their colleagues while being Loyal
“Moral action is judged by its conse- own Judgement of right or wrong.
to the Employer.”
quences not intentions.
One possible way of solving this dilemma would be, letting everybody know about the monitoring so that everybody
could protect their privacy while restraining from wasting too much time on the internet and increasing the productivity
of the office ultimately making the boss happy.