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Should I apply for promotion - moral issue

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51ducklings · 13/01/2024 19:38

A wonderful opportunity has come up at work and I know my employers would welcome an application from me. It would mean a move into the senior team and a better salary. Theoretically I should be jumping at the chance. The organisation does amazing work for vulnerable people and I get on very well with all my colleagues. It's totally flexible and mostly based from home. Some context - the organisation is faith-based. This is of course fine and I share the same faith, however when I joined it was not made clear that they only employ people of a certain faith (but they support people of all faiths or none genuinely indiscriminately). In fact, their recruitment practices are quite frankly dubious and discriminatory i.e. there is no publicised genuine occupational requirement, which there should be. I have raised this. I've always worked in organisations that thrive on diversity and inclusion, and I love this. I feel it's morally and legally right to disregard personal characteristics such as age, gender, sexuality, religion etc. when recruiting and focus on skills and abilities (and it's an important part of my faith i.e. everyone is of equal value). So I'm hesitating. Do I apply or not? Very few opportunities of this sort ever come up in my part of the country. I can't quite get over my feeling that it's just all wrong. Or should I just not care and go for it?

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Towelrail · 13/01/2024 19:40

Apply because if you then get into the senior team you'll have more power to change it.

51ducklings · 13/01/2024 19:42

Towelrail · 13/01/2024 19:40

Apply because if you then get into the senior team you'll have more power to change it.

Thanks. I don't think I will though. The Trustees are very much against making the change. In fact, one of them said to me that he would never want to see someone in a same sex relationship employed by the organisation. I pushed back hard on that one!

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Riverstep · 13/01/2024 19:46

Well, you already work for them anyway, so a promotion wouldn’t make a difference. If you don’t agree with their recruitment processes and discriminatory attitude ( most wouldn’t) then a new job with a different company is what’s needed.

bctf123 · 13/01/2024 21:13

Yes

NCGrandParent · 13/01/2024 21:17

Exactly as @Riverstep says - surely if it's an ethical dilemma then the dilemma is whether you should work there at all or not. Going for a promotion is neither here nor there.

OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon · 13/01/2024 21:20

You already work for them, and now you have moral issues - does that mean you will be actively looking elsewhere.

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