Workplace Ethics Case Study

Workplace Ethics
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Workplace Ethics
Oil Industry
Ideal, effects, and consequences at stake
Employees of the oil company are using dubious schemes to defraud the company and customers by stealing from them. The employees bolstered the inspection system and managed to cheat the city officials while using traditional means of heating oil. Therefore, they have been sued for scheme to defraud, enterprise corruption, falsifying business records, and grand larceny. Their intent of stealing was that it was legal.
The unethical practices led to the theft of more than $34 million worth of oil that was not delivered, and there is a likelihood that it is more widespread. Therefore, leading to the creation of a black market where fuel is stolen at the expense of the residents in the city. Drivers could carry guns to guard the cash in their possession, and they could manipulate cash payment records so that they could steal or misappropriate the cash they were carrying. For example, when the authorities executed the search warrant, they found $187,000 in cash on the desk of one of the co-principals of the company. That shows the cash embezzlement was coordinated by delivery men, drivers, and other employees; hence the company lost a lot of money.
Delivery men could pump air into fuel tanks at delivery points, especially at homes of customers. They could use magnets to disable meters that facilitate the flow of oil through hose pipes. The authorities say that as a result of the malpractice, customers could lose about 400 or 500 gallons of oil on every delivery.
Moral rights violated
Honesty and integrity 
Officials of the delivery companies could coordinate to keep records of stolen oils and manipulating cash payments records to steal cash received on delivery of oil. That is depicted when $ 187,000 was found on the desk of one of the company's co-principal.
Misconduct and cheating
That was violated by deliverymen when they altered the oil meters using magnets so that the hose pipe coul...