Discrimination is not only unethical, but it is also illegal because
             it involves using irrelevant facts about employees that affect how they are
             treated in hiring or promotions, firings or demotions (Discrimination and
             affirmative action). Facts normally irrelevant to employment include a
             person's sex, race, religion, etc. Only facts that are relevant to a job
             such as skill and experience should impact how an individual is treated.
             Ethics involved in taping conversations is a bit murkier especially in the
             absence of company policies prohibiting taping and local laws requiring two-
             party consent (Taping/eavesdropping on conversations).
             In the Texaco case, executives engaged in unethical behavior by
             engaging in discrimination. Allowing the tapes was deemed legal and also
             appears to be ethical given that the tape revealed that executives were
             discussing destroying documents linked to the lawsuit when the conversation
             was recorded (Mulligan and Kraul, 1996). Therefore, the employee's taping
             appears to be an acceptable measure to counter management's unethical
             behavior and to ensure that justice was served.
             Texaco's settlement offer included $115 million in cash payments to
             current and former black employees, $26 million in pay raises to all
             current black employees, and another $35 million in sensitivity and
             diversity training. Texaco also hired a special review committee to monitor
             behavior and to provide advice. However, these measures will not do enough
             to restore employee trust in the company. The sensitivity and diversity
             training and review committee can easily turn into a "minimum behavior"
             effort where nothing ever really changes because actions that can affect
             real change have not been enacted. In Texaco's situation, restoring trust
             will require much more than training and reviews. It will mean a new focus
             on implementing best practices and exemplary beha...