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Is using volunteer work to gain a promotion ethical?
Is using volunteer work to gain a promotion ethical? (IntroductionToBusiness OP 8D04gAa · 2026-10-07-36573 · Working the Net) — "Ethics Activity You join a lar…
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- Ethical dilemma involving employee volunteerism, personal benefit, and fairness
- The bank encourages and promotes employee volunteerism
- Employees may volunteer during one paid day each month, or up to 12 days per year
- Volunteer activities provide paid time off and enhanced job skills
- Workplace scenario involving the junior teller and the boss
- The boss’s wife is diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer with a poor prognosis
- The teller chooses a breast cancer charity partly because it may earn the boss’s personal appreciation
- The teller volunteers at the foundation and personally solicits coworkers for its charity walk
- The impressed boss recommends the teller for promotion before the customary two-year requirement
- How should the teller’s conduct be ethically evaluated?
- Possible interpretation: the teller smartly recognizes the value of volunteering for a meaningful cause
- Possible objection: the teller takes unfair advantage of the boss’s vulnerability and manipulates the situation
- The activity requires researching the topic and writing responses to the ethical questions
- Arguments must be supported with web-based articles and cited sources
