Dona recently started a new industry research job, joining the interactive technologies team. In graduate school, her advisor had collaborated with several members of the team on several research projects, involving and highlighting Dona’s contributions whenever possible. The team had been impressed by Dona’s work and recruited her as she was approaching graduation. Mark, the team’s technical leader had built a reputation as a brilliant expert but he was an inconstant person. s team’s contributions were highly cited within the field, as Mark was always claiming a primary authorship as the team leader. The team’s work was also highlighted frequently in popular press, always with quotes only from Mark. Despite the team’s repeated successes, Mark would blow up with verbal and personal attacks for even their minor mistakes. He would yell at any team member and rudely berate them in internal chat forums. On multiple occasions, women team members have found their names removed from journal manuscript submissions as punishment. Dona soon found herself the target of one of Marks’ aggressive attacks when she updated a code that
led to a timing glitch in the prototype shortly before a live demo. Angrily, Mark refused to allow Dona to join the team on stage which made her feeling that his reaction was unprofessional and abusive. Consequently, Dona approached the team’s Director, “Mr. Taylor” who agreed that the experience she went through was unpleasant, but that was the price to pay for working in an intense, industry-leading team. Mr. Taylor advice to Dona was to Reviewing and applying what you have learned in this course about the importance of ethical principles and their significance in the life, discuss the following questions: Four fundamental ethical principles play an important role in our life and in workplace operations– . These principles play an important role when taking important decisions in the workplace. Up using power is one of the most serious global threats of our time as it has important effects on the environment and economy, and is linked to a crisis of democracy and rising inequalities. In organizations, when important decisions are to be taken, mostly a conflict arises between the leader’s choice and the employee’s duty.