The CEO asks you to assess the job satisfaction of employees. Therefore, you send employees an electronic survey, with a statement confirming that individual results will be kept confidential. Upon reviewing the results, you see that several female employees have provided qualitative comments about the sexual harassment they endured at the hands of the CEO. What would you do? Would you break confidentiality and inform the Director of Human Resources? Would you confront the CEO directly? Or would you do nothing to maintain confidentiality?

Use the above scenario to respond to the following prompts:

Describe a common ethical dilemma an I/O practitioner might encounter and explain why.

Then explain how you would resolve the dilemma, using specific ethical standards and guidelines.

References:

Aamodt, M. (2016). Industrial/organizational psychology: An applied approach (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964Links to an external site.. Retrieved from https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/titlevii.cfm

Lowman, R. L. (2017). Ethical issues and standards in research and applications of industrial, work, and organizational psychology. In D. S. Ones, N. Anderson, C. Viswesvaran, & H. R. Singagil (Eds.), SAGE handbook of industrial, work, and organizational psychology: Vol. 1. Personnel psychology and employee performanceLinks to an external site. (2nd ed., pp. 39-51). SAGE.

American Psychological Association. (2017). Ethical principles of psychologists and code of conductLinks to an external site.. Retrieved from https://www.apa.org/ethics/code/