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A Reaction Paper On The Office: The Business Ethics Episode

Holly presides over a business ethics seminar after Ryan's corporate scandal. During the seminar, Meredith reveals that she has been having sex with a supplier to gain discounts for the company. Holly feels this is unethical and that Meredith should be terminated. Michael disagrees and argues they should treat each other like family. However, Holly states the office is a workplace, not a family. Later, the corporate office ignores Meredith's actions due to the discounts, but scolds Holly for not collecting signatures from the seminar. Michael then stands up for Holly when conducting the restated seminar.

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A Reaction Paper On The Office: The Business Ethics Episode

Holly presides over a business ethics seminar after Ryan's corporate scandal. During the seminar, Meredith reveals that she has been having sex with a supplier to gain discounts for the company. Holly feels this is unethical and that Meredith should be terminated. Michael disagrees and argues they should treat each other like family. However, Holly states the office is a workplace, not a family. Later, the corporate office ignores Meredith's actions due to the discounts, but scolds Holly for not collecting signatures from the seminar. Michael then stands up for Holly when conducting the restated seminar.

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A Reaction Paper on The Office: The Business Ethics Episode

From Deedle-Dee Productions, Reveille and Universal Television, the multi-award-


winning comedy series "The Office" presents a hilarious documentary-style look at the
humorous, and sometimes poignant of the modern American workplace. "The Office" is
executive-produced by Ben Silverman, Greg Daniels, who developed the series for
American audiences, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Howard Klein, Paul Lieberstein,
Brent Forrester and Dan Sterling. In Season 5 Episode 3, entitled , “Business Ethics”,
Holly presides over a business-ethics meeting in the wake of Ryan's corporate scandal,
but the seminar breaks into chaos when Michael allows the staffers to speak up openly
about workplace misconduct, whereas, Meredith’s revelation is the worst. She confessed
that she’s been having sex with a supplier in order to gain discounts for the company and
gift certificates to Outback Steakhouse, being ultimately surprised and disappointed,
Holly feels that she should take an action.
One of my reactions to the series regarding the ethical concern provided by Holly at the start
of her meeting was

Meanwhile, at the seminar, Dwight Schrute claimed that he never takes personal


time during work, so Jim uses a stopwatch to count even the smallest distractions that
befall Dwight, such as yawning, sneezing and using the restroom. As a result, Dwight
never stops working: he restrains himself from interfering when Jim spreads
misinformation about Battlestar Galactica, urinates in a soda bottle under his desk to
avoid leaving for the bathroom, and somehow manages to sneeze with his eyes open. Jim
notes that he has been so busy timing Dwight, he hasn't even started work. Dwight
finally stops caring about Jim's antagonism when he comes back into the office, having
snuck away to have sex with Angela Martin. He had a conversation with Jim and he
finally admits that he is not as ethical as he claimed, and Jim appears happy to hear this
and stops using the stopwatch.
Michael, upset by Holly's feelings, takes her to a restaurant to smooth things over,
and inconspicuously tries to ignite a relationship. But Holly can’t stop thinking about
Meredith’s very unethical behavior and said, that there is no other option that will not
lead for Meredith’s termination. On the otherhand, Michael keeps on defending Meredith
that she has a family to feed and they should let the incident slipped, afterall they treat
each other as a family. But Holly strongly disagree to Michael and stated that Dunder
Mifflin is not a family but a workplace, Michael becomes bitter towards her and treats
her with the kind of contempt he previously reserved for Toby Flenderson. Later on a
conference call, corporate turns a blind eye to Meredith's unethical behavior due to the
discounts the company has been receiving as a result of Meredith’s act but scolds Holly
for neglecting to collect the signatures of all the employees who attended the business
ethics seminar. Michael immediately becomes sympathetic toward her, and stands up for
Holly when the rest of the staff is reluctant to participate in the rest of the seminar by
violently threatening them to finish it. This in turn, seems to improve their relationship
once again as Michael sits quietly as Holly conducts the seminar properly.
Meredith provides Outback takeout to the entire office, so she is no longer the sole
beneficiary of the "tip." The workers are confused exactly why Meredith accepts steak
coupons, but agree to let Meredith continue her behavior.

At the start of the business ethics meeting, Holly is holding a binder which includes the
questionnaires she had collected from her colleagues. I do totally agree with the statement
she had that it is wrong to make personal calls during work hours. One of my comments to
the questionnaires regarding ethical concerns being read by Holly is the Likert scale she used
which includes both totally agree and strongly agree. I feel like she can already remove the
option totally agree because it only brings confusion to the part of the respondents, like one
employee said that she thought that s

Questionnaires:
1. It is wrong to make personal calls during work hours (some marked that you are very
strongly agree, ideally you should have selected, totally agree. One employee said that she
taught that very strongly agree sounded stronger than totally agree.
2. In fact, spending a half hour at the water cooler during work hours is a form of stealing
(time theft and it is like taking money from the company
3. Can anyone think of examples of things that are over the line time wasters?
4. Stealing office supplies is another big ethical area that there’s seems to be some confusion
about.

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