Topic

Fairness in hiring and promotions, employees’ rights and duties

Thesis

The theory of an employee is someone that was hire because of qualification to be able to

perform a duty according to policy and protocol for employer to pay with an opportunity for

promotion if applicable. For this reason how can we say that an employee right could be

violated or is it possible. When it comes to employee and employer relationship for doing

business, the question is who have the right, and what right, and if the right was fair.

Introduction

Just because an employee is qualified to perform a duty, does not mean there is no

obligation to who is the boss. One notion about employment is, who is the boss, who is in charge

or has the authority. Henceforth, there are certain rule beside qualify to perform duty. One

obligation is respect, and the other is obedient. The bible said “Obedient is better than sacrifice”

is the motto for employment. No one will like to hire someone that does not have respect for the

employer likewise no one want to be hire by a boss who belittle him or her as a person beside his

or her qualification. Imagined being hired because you can do the job but no one respect you.

Body

Who have the right, the role of a qualify employee?

The role of qualify employee is employee right to be able to approach an employer,

perform his or her job according to employer instruction (not according to education or

knowledge, and not according to personal belief), and be able to adjust to employer demand

when necessary or per requirement. One of employer requirement may be to change tactics for

performing duty or doing business such as, overcharging customers to get pay because at least

we know the company would have enough money to pay the workers. This may go against an

employee conscience and troublesome for an employee to perform his duty with lying and

unable to tell the truth that the customers are paying double, imagined your friend as a customer,

but you cannot tell him or her to go someone else because it is damaging to the business for what

is your right. The right to conduct business honestly in fairness to the customer for customer

right, would that affect your relationship with your boss, yes it will, because, it is difficult to

have deep rest for a liar, in this case, a boss that you might consider as a thief or a crook, a crook

for charging double.

Therefore, as employee, what is your right, is it your right to disrespect your employer or

to tell on your employer with whistle blowing, do you have that right. The answer is no, what

you have is the right to quit, because what your employer is doing is able to make sure you get

pay for your work and how your employer does it, is up to him or her. Now as employee, if you

cannot accept that as part your responsibilities to your employer then you have the right to quit.

Was this fair, yes is fair, because the issue is you. Another reason why employee do not have any

right, but to quit, is that the employee right is “correlative with duties with what is due the holder

of the right” stated Hoffman and et.al (2001 p35) to show that the employee right depend on the

employer.

Moreover, is the concept of business ethic that employee is a complimentary of employer

for civility; therefore, an employee cannot be critical of the employer and if conflict arise as

usually does there are condition. According to Velasquez, M. G., & Velazquez, M. (2002), these

are,

Necessary Conditions for a Conflict of Interest to Arise

• Employee or officer is engaged in carrying out a certain task for his or her employer.

• Employee has an interest that gives him or her an incentive to do the task in a way that

serves that interest.

• The employee has an obligation to do the task in a way that serves the interests of his or

her employer free of any incentive to serve another interest.

Who have the right, the role of an employer?

The role of an employer is someone who provides work for a person in return for money

to keep the person busy with hiring an employee for work trade. A trade is skill for doing

business. Therefore, an employee qualification is his or her skill for doing the job. Of course,

lying is not one of the skills listed as requirement, but some positions require offset of the truth is

the saying that you cannot handle the truth. In the military and medical field where most of the

procedures associated with exerting your capability to the maximum for not feeling pain and it is

possible to eradicate the reality for pain by medication, we distort the reality to accept the odd is

a business. Let us take pharmaceutics business for example, how can the business operate with

advertising side effect of medication. No one will buy it but the reality is, there is side effect to

each medication that we take, but with distort of the truth by telling us the good before telling us

the bad that could kill us in itself is offset of the truth a little, because you buy the medication for

the good not for side effect.

My point is the role of employer is whatever it takes for a business to make money is the

way for dealing with people including the employees, associate, and the customers. If employer

duty is to make money to be able to pay the worker what ever the employer does is the obligation

for running the business.

Answer to the question who have the right and what right

When it comes to moral issue and the right of employee, the employer have the

responsibility for developing people with providing training, one of the training, is customer

service for how to translate negative information to positive information, for example, in the

analogy for double charging, how to relate the information without feeling the guilt for

dishonesty. Statement such as, we charge twice for making profit because that is the only way to

keep us in business that allow us to pay our workers. Customer we understand that, and your

conscience is clear. When it comes to who have the right, employer does, and the right of

employee is to obey for having the word such as, the boss, the manager or the CEO for

corporate.

Conclusion

Was the right fair

The answer to the fairness is yes, business involve prioritization and coordination. The

employer position is to prioritize what is important to move the business forward, is about what

come first. Whereas employee as a subordinate is to coordinate the employer plan to move the

process forward and if an employee cannot do that or able to move the plan forward is the

employer right for promotion, demotion or fire.

Reference

Hoffman W.M, Frederick R.E, & Schwartz M.S. (2001) Business Ethics 4th Edition

Velasquez, M. G., & Velazquez, M. (2002). Business ethics: Concepts and cases (5th ed., p.

528). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.