The General Motors Corporation (GM) prides itself on its reputation in being an international company with many branches spread all over the world. However, the admission of this fact has put the company in a challenging situation with regard to ethical and compliance codes of conduct. The diversity of its workforce subject to the country’s rights and ethics puts the company under a higher task on ethical codes. With this regard, this paper makes an extensive literal review of the company’s privacy ethical criteria to sexuality, while deeply considering utilitarian and deontological theories.
Sexuality is a key element in any organization. Today sexuality accounts for failure and success in both international and local companies. General Motors Corporation has made its effort to business ethics and compliance to sexuality. Although according to the utilitarian approach, less emphasis is given to it since it may mean little to any good or bad. On the other hand, the satisfaction in working together, with a different gender is immense and of immense worth to building a dynamic team.
Notwithstanding, the company has adopted a policy that gives equal opportunities to both males and females and allowed one to data (although not included) a colleague. However, it is less likely that the employees dating may be allowed to work in the same company, not to mention of the same department. This is all for the benefit of the company.
According to deontological theory, it is ethical to date anybody regardless of the company one is working. On a closer look at the ethical perspective, with regard to privacy ethics at work, it falls that this is, natural moral, law that one may be reluctant to resist. However, the same theory advances that it is intuition from common sense and one ought to show responsibility towards sexuality. Again, the privacy or rather a freedom is given to each one of him or she should be enough to let satisfied working in the area. As such, General Motors has made an extensive effort in ensuring compliance with the company codes of conduct that may justify punishing or avoiding some employees as far as such motives are meant to produce a maximization of consequences or results in the production.
Furthermore, the company has made decentralized compliance on ethical codes of conduct that have a multicultural aspect. Sexuality and sexual harassment at workplaces have been significant at General Motors Corporation, as it does not just touch on the privacy of the sexuality but the integrity. The numerous numbers of cultures that constitute the company employees have an ethical aspect on the cultural norm, which puts the company at task to observe sexuality with considerable concern on ethics.
Sexual harassment is considered as a violation of the law, in the same line, General Motors gives zero tolerance on the same regardless of the country. In this view, the company has set up retaliatory workplaces where one can work comfortably without disruptions. Many times, the majority of individuals are fearful to speak up for fear of the security of their jobs or loss of reputation. The company has set an effective reporting mechanism where one can access the communication mechanisms and justify their moral stands.