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When Your Job Requires Actions That Violate Your Sense of Fairness

My boss asked me to fire someone on my team who is struggling but trying hard, and I know if I refuse I might get fired myself.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Professional survival can demand compromising our sense of justice toward others in vulnerable positions.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Moral psychology — how we make ethical decisions?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.