3) Types of unprofessional business practices
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- Sexual harassment:Examples:
- Manages who promise employees promotions if they agree to have a relationship with them
- Sexual harassment:Challenges of sexual harassment as an unprofessional business practice:
- The affected party may stay away regularly from work
- Victim may be severely traumatised and this may affect other employees emotionally
- Businesses could lose female employees and attract/ retain less female applicants
- Sexual harassment:Strategies to deal with sexual harassment as an unethical business practice:
- Educate employers on sexual harassment matters
- Ensure compliance with law/ business code of conduct
- Formulate a policy regarding sexual harassment
- Mismanagement of funds in the workplace:Examples:
- Employees download music and movies using business's resources
- Employee uses business resources for his/ her own personal gain
- Mismanagement of funds in the workplace:Challenges of mismanagement of funds as an unprofessional business practice:
- The business can experience substantial loss if it goes unchecked
- Discourages investors as fraud and corruption increases risk of investment
- Mismanagement of funds in the workplace:Strategies to deal with mismanagement of funds as an unethical business practice:
- Conduct regular audits
- Educate employees about impact of fraud
- Implement/ introduce fraud prevention strategies
- Abuse of work time:Examples:
- Taking extended lunch breaks
- Making personal calls during work hours
- Abuse of work time:Challenges of abuse of work time as an unprofessional business practice:
- May result in employees' often abusing work time
- Wasting time costs business money and affects productivity
- Abuse of work time:Strategies to deal with abuse of worktime as an unethical business practice:
- Speak directly to employees who abuse work time
- Monitor employees to ensure tasks are completed
- Conduct training on contents of code of conduct/ ethics