Individual Ethical Experience

Individual Ethical Experience

I experienced an ethical issue with a co-worker while employed at Motorola. The management had created a team to help solve the problems of too many rejects entering QA and also errors made the customer. I was named the leader of the team due to my experience, time on the job, and my quality and quantity of work I had achieved. One person on the team, Olivia, did not approve of the choice of me as the team leader. She confronted me personally at work using many inappropriate words and telling me that I was a favorite and that is the only reason I was named the team leader. I did not take this personally or got into an argument with her as this was my work place and such words and confrontation was not professional. The others on the reject reduction team were pleased that I was chosen and glad to help me. Many on the team were not comfortable speaking in front of others and felt I would do a great job in representing them. I felt we were going to be a great team with many ideas to reduce rejects.

There was not a difference in the power of authority as we both held the same job title. I had many more years with the company than she did, but we both filled the same position. The ethics in question in my opinion was the confrontation, the inappropriate words used on her part, and her loss of control on the job. The personal conflicts involved were the fact that I had worked many positions in that department and knew it well. The management depended on my skills as I had shared many ideas for improvement that were implemented. I felt she viewed me as a favorite, but the fact is I was good at what I did and strived to do better myself and the job I had to do.

The potential outcomes from this issue could have been either one of us being written up or terminated. I was to involve myself as she had, we would have been both at fault and no positive conclusion would have been fulfilled. The outcome was that I chose to try to talk to her reasonably without inappropriate words and suggested that we talk about the issue when there wasn't any anger. We did have witnesses that observed the conversation but they did not get involved, just observed. The outcome from the incident was positive as she realized the potential consequences for us both and understood that we did need to talk later when her anger was gone. We talked at length a week later and gained a lot