Xmgt 216 Business Ethics Reflection Essay - 1712 Words

Business Ethics Reflection Gretchen Allickson University of Phoenix 5/27/12 Moral values are not something you are born with, but rather something that somebody in your life needs to instill in you. So whether you learn them from a guardian in your early years or pick them up along the way, either way moral values are a necessary pallet of skills and knowledge to have in this world. If you do not hold moral values to a high standard, then you will most likely do wrong to someone who does not deserve it. Moral values keep allow people to trust and care for other people. So, when you do not have high moral values, chances are you are not trusted or liked by many people. These are the people who steal, cheat, or harm†¦show more content†¦Since our kitchen was not particularly busy anymore and our deliveries were just sitting there cooling off and waiting, my boss asked me and my coworker Jordan to take a few of them together. In order to take one or more deliveries, you must take enough pizza bags to keep the orders hot, as well as the money bag which carries about $200 dollars in which you can use to give the customers change. So we started off on our deliveries, with four orders to take. The first two were delivered in very good time; however it was the third delivery where issues arose. I walked up to the customer’s house with the pizzas and Jordan had the money bag. When they answered the door, we handed them their pizzas and Jordan took their check. It actually turned out that this was Jordan’s friend’s house and so we chatted with them for a few quick minutes before we took off on the last delivery. When we a pproached the fourth house, I noticed that Jordan got out of the car empty handed. I asked him where the money bag was and he said that he thought I had it. Right then I was skeptical about what had happened, because it was obvious that he had had the money bag and I had the pizzas the entire time. Suddenly, I found myself in a difficult situation. I would consider myself a quite blunt person, so I immediately called him out on the problem; being careful not to actually accuse him of anything, but rather implying that I amShow MoreRelatedBusiness Ethics Reflection953 Words   |  4 PagesBusiness Ethics Reflection Matthew Todd XMGT/216 4/22/12 Mike Ishmael Business Ethics Reflection Matthew Todd XMGT/216 4/22/12 Mike Ishmael In my previous job, there was a couple of ethical dilemmas I had over a period of time, but I’m only choosing one of them to focus on in this paper. This situation involved me catching another co-worker stealing products from the shop. I didn’t say anything at first because I thought maybe this person had gotten permission to use these items. I