Embezzlement Case

How do we know what is ethical or unethical in today’s economy. In my paper I would like to know if there is a psychological behavior for embezzling money from a company or employer. We all think that it would be an ethical or unethical behavior, but many people would wonder about a person’s morals.

We as people need to cope in our daily lives. The true definition of coping is the efforts to control, reduce, or learn to tolerate (handle) the threats that lead to stress (Feldman, 2010). If we are under a lot of stress, is this somehow a reason to embezzle money. Do people actually think before they react to a situation? Most likely they don’t. What does coping and a psychological behavior are have in common. This answer would be stress. There are different kinds of stress, but the one that I’m talking about is indirect consequences that result in decline in healthcare (Feldman, 2010). If there is no medical attention being sought then there starts the problem. We don’t have the ability to think correctly without medication.

When we are off of our medications, do we stress about our daily activities. While we are under a lot of stress and trying to cope with our daily lives, we realize that we are about to start an obsession about our worries. Obsession is defined as a persistent (constant), unwanted thought or idea that keeps recurring (returning) (Feldman, 2010). People start to look at their financial situations. They start to worry if they are going to be able to pay their bills. Now they are starting to get an obsession. So if a person working at a company that has a place to take care of financial records that is stressed, over money, do we know what they are about to do. No, nobody knows what they will do. We will automatically think that they know the difference between right and

wrong. Will we ever find out how or why they stole from a company, most likely no, not until they are caught?

When I started my second semester at Bryant & Stratton College, I started to make friends with more and more people from my classes. One day while in Philosophy class we needed to think about a topic of an ethical issue. While my friend Mary and I were struggling with our topics, she had her topic with no problem. Mary and I needed to come up with an ethical issue in accounting. We were scatterbrained. At the end of the semester after our papers were already written, we found out that the one friend of ours embezzled money from the company that she worked for. Now when we found about her we were so stunned with the news. When Mary and I were so scatterbrained about our topics, she could have made some suggestions for a topic for us.

Now all of this coping and obsession starts a new word in the category. What are we thinking when we start to commit a crime in the white-collar world. Thinking is defined as the manipulation (handling, controlling) of mental