Online Ethics Center: Topics Index:

Supervisors and managers

Ordered to charge time improperly What to do when supervisor directs one to do something improper.
Were you instructed to distort the truth? In interpreting a supervisor's instructions one needs to make sure to be ethical.
Directed to work weekends and disguise that fact What to do when one is not certain about the ethicity of the instructions given by one's advisor.
Playing against the boss in sports This case presents the situation where one has to play against one's boss who does not like to lose.
Ethical pressure points of managers and supervisors This article discusses the need for managers and supervisors to be sensitive to their expectations of their employees to avoid unethical behavior from them.
Managers' informal requests may create ethical pressures This article stresses the need of candor in the workplace emphasizing the potential of ethical pressures from informal requests by supervisors.
Inez Austin, Moral Leader Austin's superiors, for the most part, fail to support her decisions and even lead the campaign of harassment against her.

Nancy K. Austin, "Ethics: Personal vs. Professional," in Working Woman (September 1992): 28, 32. Other keywords for this: conscientious objection; professional advice; ethics support; corporate ethics.
E. Doss and M. C. Loui, "Ethics and the privacy of electronic mail," The Information Society, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 223-235, July 1995. Other keywords for this: database confidentiality; communication; misappropriation of company/laboratory resources; computers and privacy.