“Thi Fall Apart!
Case 2 - “Things fall apart!” - Balancing Compassion for Employees and Operational Constraints
How should managers show support for their employees in a values-based public service? A range of values may be relevant – the question is how to balance the values.
B. manages a small work unit. One employee, N., often arrives late and disappears for lengthy stretches of time. Friendly approaches to fix the problem have not worked. N. happens to be a single mother. She feels that she's doing her job, and occasionally gets permission to take some work home to make up required hours of work.
At the same time, another employee, S., is risking his physical and mental health by taking on additional work. B. fears that S. may soon require extended sick leave.
What are the ethical issues? If you were B., the manager, what would you do about N., who arrives late, and about S., who takes on extra work?
This generic case is hypothetical. It has been produced for discussion......
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