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“A Case Study of Business Ethics”

An MBBS – named – Dr. Mehra – was with a very reputed hospital of Trichi for last seven years. His performance
feedback was exceptional and he had received many promotions during this tenure. Prior to joining this hospital,
he was the student of medicine in a reputed University and his behavior and performance as student were also
quite laudable. He was an excellent student with very good academic track record. His father was a renowned
scientist. Dr Mehra was also involved in a lot of social activities apart from his job.

The hospital he was serving was also a name to recognition with in the society. It had set high standards of
employee ethical behavior and it was known to follow its ethical code of conduct. In the past, the Chief
Medical Officer of the company was heavily fined (financially) when one of his actions had violated the code of
conduct of the company. The company did not care “who” violated the code of conduct and it followed the law
of the land to deal with any deviation in behavior of any employee strictly as per the ethical code of conduct of
the hospital. It was recipient of many awards like “Best Hospital to Work For” in the past.

The hospital was known to get many rich businessmen of the world as its patients. It also received
donations from many quarters of the world, including from Europe, USA etc.

On one not so fine Monday morning for Dr. Mehra, he was served with a show cause notice (by post to his home)
from the HR department of the hospital. The HR department of the hospital argued that Dr. Mehra had failed to
disclose in his application form to the hospital that he used to serve a community hospital part time along with his
studies as a student. So, it was a gross misconduct of the ethical code of conduct and that left no choice for them
but to terminate his services.

Meanwhile, Dr. Mehra received some media attention. He was called by DSP of that area for inquiring about a
dinner he had taken with one of the wanted mafias. That was reported in media. The DSP, though, gave him clean
chit, on record, that, Dr. Mehra was called for only a routine enquiry and he was not sent to jail. He added that no
evidence was found against Dr. Mehra.

Dr. Mehra was now struggling on two fronts – one was due to the enquiry of police, the other was the notice
from HR Department of the hospital. Dr. Mehra replied to the notice that as he was serving a community hospital
as a part of his social responsibility, he thought it was not necessary to share that information with hospital in the
application form. As generally, many of the doctors who would be working with private hospitals like this one had
not shared such information in the past – it was a common practice not to share such information. So, he should
not be punished.

But the HR Department of the company still terminated his services on the grounds of breach of code of conduct.
Now, Dr. Mehra accuses the hospital that because police took him under custody for a routine enquiry, the
hospital fired him and he was being targeted for wrong reasons.

Question: What do you think Who is right? Dr. Mehra or HR Department of the hospital? And Why?

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