Professor Instruction: Ethics was a major part of the Communication in Professional Life course. Class readings focused on ethics and contemporary issues in professional communication. I would like you to address two of the following contemporary ethical issues in the workplace. In your paper, firstly, you should provide a clear analysis of the issue. Secondly, you should find two theories for each of the issues and provide a thoughtful analysis of how to apply these theories to navigate the issues in an ethical way (basically, describe briefly the theory and provide a thoughtful description of how the theories can be applied in the context of the workplace to solve the unethical behavior). The theories can belong to either the interpersonal communication field, or the intercultural communication field, or the organization/corporate/workplace field.
- Ethics in intercultural workplaces. Please focus on the language barriers between employees with different cultural backgrounds with native employees (Unethical behavior: using corporate slang or jargon in the professional meeting; mockery of accents; misspelling names, and titles). The writer can use Communication Accommodation Theory here.
- Workplace disclosure of personal information (Unethical behavior: an employee keeps sharing their co-worker’s personal information that they prefer to keep private; invasion of privacy)
