Aimee
[closed] How would you handle a personal decision in the workplace that may have a legal impact on you?
Hello,
I am a college business major with an interest in business administration and a concentration of management. My focus and dedication to learning more about management leads me to ask how to handle a situation in which your personal ethics may conflict with an idea or rule in an office. If there is a negative impact to someone legally, what would be a correct way to mitigate the risk so that something positive can be learned from it? For example, I have heard about high up leaders participating in white collar crimes because of negative personal gains. This is despite stealing confidential information or ignoring established business ethic rules. I would love to stand my ground so that crimes are not committed, and teach others to do the same.
Thank you for working with me for a common goal! #business-administration #office-management
1 answer
mathias G
mathias’s Answer
First you must learn and understand company policies, rules and regulations. Then, never breaking the rules on your own is number one, or the others won't respect you if you try to maintain rules.
Number two is getting the others to respect your standpoint on this. Others will talk about really minor deviations and at that point you have to decide when to ignore; when to state your opinion without being percieved as silly person and thus immediately ignored; and when to says this is totally unacceptable and take the case to the compliance officer or the management. This is easy sometimes but harder when it is your manager or even your manager and his/her manager together talking about, or planning, the deviation.
Saying things like "that's against the rules" is less helpful than stating why you think it is important to the company not to do this and try to suggest a correctional behaviour that mitigates the issue. For instance if they are just embarrasing but not criminal, suggest they remove their company badges from their outfit first.