Topic > Code of Ethics: Ethical Concerns in the Workplace

The first one is what I think is one of the important ones that has been shown. The company follows a policy of honesty when it comes to filling time cards. Each employee must handwrite their work schedule each day they work, then sign and date the time card at the end of each time period. On my first day at the company I noticed that nearly all of the employees had signed their time sheets and dated it as the last day of the pay period, even though they hadn't completed time clocks or worked hours. Some employees even went as far as completing their hours with scheduled hours instead of hours worked. Now, this may not seem like a big deal, however, what if the employee ends up missing a day and forgets to edit their timesheet, allowing them to get paid for hours they didn't actually work. Or in the case where I saw that the employee worked extra hours and then worked overtime but didn't want to get paid for the overtime and was trying to figure out how to adjust his timesheet to reflect the extra hour of work. Altering a time sheet, falsifying information, is one of the main examples not only of bad ethics, but also of scratching the illegal column of the