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Ethical Risks of Lanka Hospitals in Post Pandemic Period

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Ethical Risks of Lanka Hospitals in Post Pandemic Period. 

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Identify a Sri Lankan public quoted company or a private organization, which employs more than 100 staff. Identify at least 4 areas where there are potential ethical risks. Justify the reasons as to what could be the outcomes of these unethical practices. Provide recommendations as to how the organization could ensure that it would avoid ethical risks in conducting its business in these uncertain times.

Note: Your analysis should be based on the secondary data collection methods

Critically evaluate,

  1. The potential ethical risks for the organization
  2. The applicability of theories in analyzing the situation and challenges
  3. Recommendations to overcome the ethical risks

Assessment criteria

  1. Introduction to the organization (10%)
  2. Identification of potential ethical risks of the organization – (25%)
  3. Depth and understanding of the subject in relevance to application of theories in analysis – (15%)
  4. A practical solution and overcome the ethics risks – (20%)
  5. An appropriate logical conclusion – (10%)
  6. Format and flow of the report – (10%)
  7. Proper and current referencing – (10%)

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Table of Contents

Executive summary
1.0 Introduction
2.0 Potential ethical risks for Lanka Hospitals.
2.1 Issues of mental health and post-traumatic stress disorder of health workers
2.2 Overcharge for services and reduce employees’ salaries to increase the profitability
2.3 Possible risk of revealing confidential information
2.4 Difficulty of measure performance of employees who work in the field and work from home.
3.0 The applicability of theories in analyzing the situation and challenges
4.0 Recommendation
5.0 Conclusion
References
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1.0 Introduction

In the post COVID-19 recovery, it is important to focus on possible ethical risk in the journey that businesses intensely focus on business recovery after challenging period. The key objective of this studies is to evaluate the potential ethical risks of The Lanka Hospitals Corporation PLC (LHC). Further, this study evaluates the applicability of theories in analyzing the situation and challenges and recommend to overcome the ethical risks.
Lanka Hospitals is one of leading organizations in Sri Lankan private healthcare sector which provides a supreme range of primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare services. Lanka Hospital is located in heart of Colombo including more than 360 beds and employs more than 1900 employees (Lanka Hospital, 2020).

2.0 Potential ethical risks for Lanka Hospitals.

2.1 Issues of mental health and post-traumatic stress disorder of health workers
Healthcare workers had tough time throughout the pandemic due to huge work load, stay away from loved ones, emotional overload by the crisis and many other reasons. Scarcity of resources led frontline healthcare workers had to deal with serious ethical dilemmas when treating to patients (Shapiro, 2021). Further, healthcare workers were forced to stay away from family members and reduce interaction with colleagues throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. All these work related factors and condition could lead to mental health outcomes such as post-traumatic stress, anxiety and depressive symptoms. A research conducted Italy and China during pandemic reveals that healthcare workers were suffered from depression (in 50.3%), anxiety (44.6%) and insomnia (34%) (Gold, 2020).
Therefore, this is a serious ethical risk that Lanka Hospitals possibility faces in post pandemic period which organization need to address proactively. Ensuring the wellbeing of employees is a key responsibility of a company. Furthermore, impact of this risk is very high since it could lead to disrupt the operation and tarnish the organization’s reputation.

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