Flor, Jairah Airah M.

12 - Holy Cross
Business Ethics Project (Activity 2)

● Ethical Issues of Business in Discrimination and Harassment.

1. This is the story of a black woman who works for a company

that doesn't have a restroom or cafeteria for black people.
Every time she needs to go to the restroom, she needs to
walk into another street building to use the restroom and to
buy food. And because she is also a woman and one of the
black people, white people treated her differently and didn't
care about her. Because of this, she is always late to work,
and their boss noticed why she's always gone and late. Her
boss asked her in front of the other employees why she's
always late. She said that there is no restroom or cafeteria for
people like her, a black woman who wants to work to survive
every day and always makes an effort to obey the white
people because they always make her feel that she does
not belong to that company. Her boss was shocked and
didn't know that that kind of discrimination happens in his
own company. After she expressed her feelings, her boss
built a restroom and cafeteria for the black employees he
has.

2. This business ethics issue involves unfair working conditions.

Because of the discrimination happening in the business
where black people don't have restrooms and cafeterias
 inside the company where they are working, some
employees also treat her differently because of the color of
her skin. It's also shown that even if they are in the same
position in the company, white people are still the ones who
can control the society they have.

3. There are no people who deserve that kind of discrimination

in our workplace or even in public places. Skin is not the one
who will tell us what kind of respect we can get from other
people and how much respect we need to give to other
people. Whatever your color is, you deserve love, respect,
and equal treatment from other people. God gives us our
own uniqueness and loves us more than other people can
love us. Appreciate yourself and don't be ashamed of your
color; love yourself the way God loves you.

● Ethical Issues of Business in Social Media

1. This story is about a man who wants to grow his company

faster. He is new in the industry, but he can't wait for his
business to become more known in the country. Because of
that, he thinks that ruining other people's businesses will help
him grow faster. He targeted one of the smaller but still
famous companies in the country. He used social media to
ruin the company's reputation in social media markets. His
planned works, so he targets the next company. His
company grew so fast because of what he did. He was really
 happy about it until one of the hackers hacked her
computer and posted on social media all of the things he
did to ruin other companies' reputations using social media.
All of the things he did to ruin other people's companies
ruined his own reputation, not only in his company but also in
his country.

2. This case involves sabotaging other people's businesses or

ruining other people's business reputations. This is one of the
bad ways to make our company grow so fast. It's okay if we
make friends with other businessmen so they can help and
give us advice on how to make our company like theirs.

3. Karma is always with us; it can be good or bad, depending

on what we do. Don't do it to others if you don't want others
to do it to you. We should respect and always appreciate
everything we have, or whenever we are treating other
people the way we want them to treat us. Competing with
others is not always everything; we should use it to make
friends and gain more experience that we can also share.