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Sudipa DuttaAIR 41· 2092

Question 9GS4GS1

You are the Head of the Human Resources (HR) department of a reputed tech company in India that has several high profile national and international clients. It has recently come to your notice that a few employees of the Software Development Team have become irregular and insincere towards their work in the past few months.

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Main Body

The situation has emerged due to a major ethical issue to be a major ethical risk to be a major ethical risk in corporate business and work culture. Recent discovery of cases in Amazon, Facebook is of type 'moonlighting' which was a cause of moonlighting.

In lines with professional ethics, it should be understood that multiple jobs is causing serious issues and challenges causing attrition rate and loss of talent.

The moonlighting has emerged due to a major ethical risk to be a major ethical risk in corporate business and work culture. Recent discovery of cases in Amazon, Facebook is of type 'moonlighting' which was a cause of moonlighting.

[A diagram showing stakeholder analysis with Employee, Stakeholders (Company, Society, Government/HR)] is used to illustrate the interconnected relationships.

Engaging employees will promote direct communication (bottom-up approach), while higher wages should be based on employee performance, strict actions should be based on gravity of moonlighting offense, promote participative workplace initiatives with increased engagement, and ensure that outsourced work is given better work culture. Professionals ethics require enhancing and promoting harmony.

[Evaluation of each option]

1Option 1

Merits:

no purposefulness/business served

Demerits:

business environment continues to be internal
employee would never get involved
2Option 2

Merits:

yes employees would be warned
p work culture goes back to normal

Demerits:

no substantial effect
employee would continue
3Option 3

Merits:

new work to be achieved
preserve the corporate governance ethos

Demerits:

new respect of costs will require monitoring
not inclusive of employee input
4Option 4

Merits:

no sustainable solution

Demerits:

still not sufficient

[My action]

1I will take option (9) [with some modifications], [in line with] professional ethics
2Engaging employees → will promote direct communication (bottom-up approach)
3Higher wages should → be based on employee performance
4Strict acting should → be based on gravity of moonlighting offense
5Promote participative → worked [with] increased engagement
6Employees

Problem of moonlighting is need to be sustainably addressed through proper development of employees wages and learning skills.

351 words15 paragraphs13 bullet points

Diagram

Stakeholder wheel showing Employee at center with Company, Society, and Government (HR) as stakeholders

  • contextual reference to current cases
  • ethical framing
  • stakeholder analysis framework
  • multi-pronged approach
  • consideration of different perspectives
  • structured comparison of options
  • identification of pros and cons
  • clear action items
  • ethical foundation
  • employee-centric approach

Topper

Sudipa Dutta

AIR 412092

Subject & Paper

GS4GS1

Topic

Ethical Issues in Organizations

Workplace Ethics and Moonlighting

Managing Employee Conduct and Moonlighting Practices

Writing Stats

351

Total words

15

Paragraphs

13

Bullets

prescriptive and action-oriented

Tone