What are the major ethical issues associated with conflict in the contemporary workplace?
Option B

9/27/2012
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In the earlier centuries, contemporary workplaces put all of their focus on making their organization grow; however in the twenty century there have been more and more major ethical issues such as Employee Behavior, Harassment, and Paying Employees Equally associated with conflict in the contemporary workplace. Since the rise of ethical issues in the contemporary workplace, it is no longer in the organization hands to enforce ethic training; Courts have made a decision that ethics training became a legal requirement “federal guidelines and state laws make it essential that you provide your employees with a compliance training program on certain laws and ethics-related topics” (Ethics Training Program & Corporate Compliance Training Programs, n.d.). Researchers haves said (Ferrell, O.C., Fraedrich, John and Ferrell, Linda, 2008) that by having an ethical workplace, your organization will benefit from it; it is the key to building an ethical work environment. “A compliance Training program will save you money by reducing the number of legal claims and the costs of investigating, litigating, and resolving those claims” (Ethics Training Program & Corporate Compliance Training Programs, n.d.). With organizations teaching and communicating their values and principles ensuring that employees know proper policies will also reduce some of the major ethical issues and enhance employee performance. Starting from small organizations to large organizations; however, people involved in any types of organization are often faced with ethical issues revolving around employee behavior. Some of the common employee behavior ethical issues for example are employee’s spending work time checking personal email accounts, using company phone to