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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
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IntroductionToBusiness OP 8D04gAa · 2026-10-07-36573

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"Ethics Activity You join a large bank that encourages and promotes employee volunteerism, allowing employees one day a month, or up to 12 days a year, to volunteer for a cause of their choosing. Shortly after you start working there as a junior teller, your boss’s wife is diagnosed with a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer that carries a very poor prognosis. Realizing it will win you kudos with your boss, you choose the local chapter of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation—a breast cancer charity that sponsors an annual Race for the Cure—for your company-sponsored volunteer work. In addition to working at the foundation’s office one day a month, you spend your own time actively soliciting other staffers at your firm to sign up for the charity walk in a few months’ time. Impressed with your qualities of tireless dedication, your boss puts your name forward for promotion to junior bank officer, well before the customary two years of service normally required for being considered for promotion. Using a web search tool, locate articles about this topic and then write responses to the following questions. Be sure to support your arguments and cite your sources. Ethical Dilemma: Your company is generous in its approach to employee volunteerism. It gives you paid time off, and you acquire enhanced job skills through your volunteer activities. Have you just been smart in recognizing the value of volunteering for a charity that you know will earn your boss’s personal appreciation? Or are you taking unfair advantage of your boss’s vulnerability and manipulating the situation?"

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