Introduction
Unethical behavior is an action that falls outside of what is considered to be morally right, unethical behavior is widespread not just in businesses but also in schools, sports, and government.in this essay, unethical behavior of people in power will be discussed such as corruption in South African leadership, which tends to be one of the biggest issues in our country. Corruption refers to unethical or dishonest behavior undertaken by someone who has been entrusted with authority. Another ethical behavior is cheating in South African business schools. Cheating is also an issue among our citizens, students cheat in their exams and assignments which results in permanent records. The last unethical behavior that is to be addressed is misconduct of employees in businesses, workers are involved in misconduct like mistreating others misusing the company's time, and violating the company's internet policies which results in a bad impact in South Africa.
Corruptions in South African leadership
Our South African leadership is full of corruption, this is driven by the fact that they always get away with this corruption. For example when we look at the leadership of our former president Jacob Zuma who was involved in the unethical activity of stealing South African funds and the country is still facing some consequences caused by this activity, like some of the retrenchment of people in their workplace and load shedding
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Businesses only hire people who are willing to join in on unethical behavior, this is why we have a high rate of corruption in the south because of this activity. The other challenge we face our citizens of South Africa is nepotism where people give favours to relatives and close friends often by hiring them.
Cheating in business schools
Cheating is one of the biggest issues in schools and has a very bad impact on students together in our citizens of South Africa. One of the impacts is that students can be banned from schools or varsities and they may also be denied to take exams at other varsities or colleges. This increased the high level of unemployment in South Africa also the high rate of crime, this is because these students who are denied writing exams or banned from schools with the reason that they were caught cheating in their exams or assignments end up with no job skills and it then became difficult for them to find suitable jobs and it then lead to crimes.
“Investigators indicated that cheating had become both frequent and more sophisticated and students said that they felt an increasing pressure to pass with higher marks and many seemed to view cheating as a legitimate strategy to accomplish that end”.“Lawson reported that business school students who cheat are more likely to be accepting of unethical workplace behavior. This is a good reason to be concerned about how business students will behave when they eventually become business professionals”
Misconduct of business employees
When employees involve themselves in unethical behavior like misconduct they tend to violent business resources, they use working time to do something else for their gain, for example when an employee uses ba business computer and WIFI to do his business. Also when not treating people equally in the workplace, this discourages them not to working hard. Misconduct can become a problem when if it is not managed well, and it is not something that is done by the employee only also an employer can do misconduct by unfairly treating employees or dismissing them unfairly
Conclusion
The unethical behavior weighed above has a bad impact on our South African citizens. It increases the level of unemployment, threatens sustainable economic development and it also causes problems in many institutions, businesses, and South Africans need to find a solution to all these problems.
Reference
- Lawson R.A “Is classroom cheating related to business students’ propensity to cheat in the ‘real world’? 2004 journal of business ethics 49
- Helen and Levenburg, Nancy and Mckendell, Marie and Motherwell William “cheating during the college years: how do business students compare? 2007 journal of business ethics 72
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