Employee Performance in the Workplace: Ethical Conundrums

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October 26, 2023, A Question of Ethics Conversation Episode

Today’s Question of Ethics Conversation looks at several ethical challenges regarding employee performance. It discusses four questions many supervisors face in their oversight role.

Can you, as a supervisor, remain friends with colleagues once you have become their boss? This is an especially critical question when it comes time to promote someone, and you promote your ‘friend’.

-Are performance reviews good or bad? Are they useful tools for supervisors and managers?

-Is it ethical to use a personal relationship to get promoted in the workplace?

Is it ethical to treat each worker differently instead of having the same rules for everyone? (i.e., working from home)?

This Question of Ethics Conversation looks at how technology plays a role in workplace culture for court users, for one’s co-workers, and on a court’s institutional knowledge.

Today’s Moderator

Samantha Wallis: Deputy Trial Court Administrator, Supreme Court, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho

Today’s Panelists

Lizzie Alipaz: Court Administrator for the Municipal Court in the town of Tinmath, Colorado

Peter Kiefer: Retired Court Professional

Norman Meyer: Retried Clerk for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Mexico

Erika Schmid: Supervisor for the Multnomah County Circuit Court, 4th Judicial District, Portland, Oregon

Karl Thoennes: Court Administrator, 2nd Judicial Circuit, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Creadell Webb: Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer; First Judicial District, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania