A New Work Ethic

A New Work Ethic

Introduction

This paper speaks to the behaviors and actions of employees in the work place. Nowadays, employees have become overbearingly self-centered that all they think about is how to enrich themselves at the expense of the employer. They want to gain wealth with little or no effort at all. Not only that employees' actions hurt employers but they also diminish or completely eliminate the possibility of others gaining employment.

James Sheehy, a human resource manager from a company in Houston witnessed this first hand when he went undercover as a management trainee at a fast-food restaurant owned by a relative. Sheehy's discovery of employees' willful disregard of employers' time, effort and money put into a business is wild spread today in the work place regardless of the age, gender, ethnicity and education of the employees. Sheehy is a living testimony.

Describe how typical the attitudes that Sheehy reports appear to be in work environments you have experienced.

In my own experience, most employees do not care at all about the employer. They are polite, calm, caring and humble as they can be when seeking a job or during interviews. Once they are employed, they care less about the employer and use their employment as an to get all that they can get. Not only that employees take things that do not belong to them but they also use supplies as though they drop from the sky and no one is paying for them. In the lunch rooms for example, some employers provide things like tea bags, coffee, sugar, napkins or paper towers, and sometimes light snacks for the benefit of the employees. But employees misuse these things and sometimes pocket them to take home as though there is nothing to it.

Explain the implications of the work ethic Sheehy describes for the future of American Business.

This is no ethic at all. This is a nasty behavior by employees that must be severely dealt with. If left unchecked, the future of American business is clearly in danger. And if the future of American business is in danger then the basic survival of all consumers is in grave danger. This unethical behavior by employees will force employers to get high cost insurance policies against theft and waste in the work place which will definitely lead to increase in the costs of consumer products. In order for employers to make profits, they will not only increase the costs of consumer products, but will also keep wages down. As we all know, high cost products and low wages are not a good mix. Eventually, it is the consumers who will suffer in order for an American business to survive.

Explain whether it is more reasonable to expect workers, especially in a capitalist society, to be more devoted to their jobs, more concerned with quality and customer service, than Sheehy's coworkers were.

Logically, it is more reasonable to expect workers or employees to be more devoted to their jobs and more concerned with quality and consumer service, especially in a capitalist society. In a capitalist society, there is a stiff competition among businesses. Employees' behavior and actions will give a business a competitive edge over its rivals or will sink the business.

All employees must know that helping your employer's business grow must be your primary goal. This is how you get increase in wages and benefits, promotion and others are employed, thereby growing the economy.

As a result of being the best employee you can be, your employer may very well help you start your

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