Moonlighting Ethical Dilemma

A person is said to moonlight when he/she holds more than one job at the same time (Wisniewski and Kleine 1984). Moonlighting is often associated with rising costs of living or hard economic conditions (Kimmel 1995). It is more often present in men than in women even though the number of women moonlighting is increasing considerably mainly for divorced and single mothers (Kimmel 1995). Moonlighting is most often regarded as problematic as it comes with many disadvantages to the company and the concerned party 's family and very often these tend to develop into ethical issues. However sometimes this can be forced upon the employees as a result of harsh economic situations. Therefore moonlighting has to be dealt with on a case by case basis in order to ensure that there is no harm done to any party as a result of the act. In my opinion, the case study does not offer much ethical issues.

The main perceived ethical problem with Jeremy moonlighting is obviously the fact that he has to divide his time between his two jobs. This is compounded by the fact that he just had had a baby and therefore gets little free time at home. This is a problem for Zagante as this would imply that the employee would become less productive as a result of both spending less time for the company and possibility of being ill-disposed due to the demands of attention and responsibility of a new born. Therefore this would represent a decrease in potential gains by the company(Ghosh and Whalley 2008). This is because by separating his time, the employee will have two objects on which to concentrate and therefore will be able to give less to the original job. Also, the employee will be fatigued by extended working hours and in this case study also by the child. This will also contribute to him not being to perform at maximum level and as a result end up being less efficient in his work (Sparks et al. 1997).

Usually the main concerns linked to moonlighting is basically that the

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