Ethical Considerations and Legal Issues: RealRecruit Case Study
You explored the significance of ethical considerations and their implications for business decisions. Today’s organizations are no longer in the situation of being able to disregard or become oblivious to the prevalence of unethical behaviors and misdemeanors. It’s now time to unpack the ethical considerations that organizations must not overlook in business operations. As a consultant, you will often come across situations that require you to identify and address ethical and legal considerations. You might even come across situations wherein you will find an overlap between ethical considerations and legal issues in a business situation. The legal team at the health and beauty company you work for is currently reviewing all the documents you have looked at so far. Their objective is to highlight potential ethical and legal issues that the company may be opening itself up to. Prompt To complete this assignment: 1. Review the RealRecruit case study provided in the textbook. Critical Thinking Case: Real Recruit 2. Write a consulting report to share your observations and recommendations based on the RealRecruit case, and address the following criteria: a. Identify one ethical consideration adopted by RealRecruit that your organization can also adopt as a best practice. Explain the reason. b. In adopting your identified best practice above, what could be an overlap between the ethical consideration and a possible legal issue? Guidelines for Submission In a Word document, use double-spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. This consulting report should be 2 pages in length and include references cited in APA format. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.
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Ethical Considerations and Legal Issues; RealRecruit Case Study
The developer of the RealRecruit technology platform, David Chadwick, identified a problem faced by athletics students once enrolled in a college and came up with a solution that not only helped the students voice their concerns and narrate their ordeals but also the solution come in handy for institutions’ administration in handling such incidences beforehand. Aside from the system's technical capabilities, such as being able to collect data and store it in a database to be retrieved in real-time, RealRecruit was also designed with ethics at the backbone. For example, the system offers the informants the opportunity to be anonymous, and the beneficiaries of the information only receive the data without the particulars of the informants. This is an aspect of confidentiality and privacy at its best, a genuine concern for the system's ethics.
According to Coffelt (2017), confidentiality is a technical term used to describe the capability of a computer system to alienate personal information from the data to be analyzed. On the other side, anonymity is the participants' ability to offer data without disclosing their identifying information. Both actions serve the purposes of respecting and protecting the participants' right to privacy, which is a major ethical issue (Coffelt, 2017). In addition to addressing the ethical concerns, anonymity and confidentiality give the participants absolute confidence and motivation to participate in whatever survey or interview needed to make informed decisions in an organization. Therefore, the participants' privacy or stakeholders in an organization is a major ethical concern that the RealRecruit technol...