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Purpose of Assignment
The purpose of this assignment is to differentiate between law and ethics, understand how both affect today's business environment, and identify the importance of alternative dispute resolution in business.
Assignment Steps
Develop a 1,050-word summary contrasting law and ethics describing the following:
- Describe how laws or regulations affect your past or current job or industry.
- Describe how ethical rules affect your past or current job or industry and explain why ethics are considered an asset to a workplace.
- Discuss the various types of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and analyze which types of ADRs are regularly used in your workplace.
Cite a minimum of two peer-reviewed references.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
Professor is looking for scholarly references. Respectable web sites such as law.cornell.edu and findlaw.com can count as scholarly references.
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Introduction
Law and ethics are not similar, even though ethical decision-making will always involve
a consideration of the law, alongside institution, experience and personal attributes and skills.
Typically, the law tells us what we are required to do and what we are prohibited from doing.
While ethics is known to set maximum standards, it has been known that the law sets minimum
standards.
Discussion
Both Michigan and the federal legislatures have come up with various fair laws, which
among other stuff, gives a restriction on the circumstances under which organizations or rather
employers may discipline, discharge or hire their employees, (Stevens, 2008). Just like other
organizations, this is also applicable in my workplace. The law protects the rights of all the
employees within my workplace and covers almost all the aspects of the employee/employer
relationship.
The law affects certain issues in my workplace such as: redundancy and dismissal,
gender, disability discrimination, race discrimination, sex and sexual orientation discrimination,
age discrimination, parental and maternity rights; equal pay, bullying and harassment, grievances
and discipline; discrimination a result of marital or civil partnership status; belief or religion and
maternity or pregnancy; data protection; employment tribunals; and terms and conditions of
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