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ETHICS
1.
Analyze the ethics of marketing Publius using utilitarianism, rights, justice,
and caring. In your judgement, is it ethical to market Publius? Explain
2. Are the creators of Publius
in any way morally responsible for any criminal acts that criminals are able to
carry out and keep secret by relying on Publius? Is AT &T in anyway morally
responsible for these? Explain your answers.
3. In
your judgment, should governments allow the implementation of Publius? Why or
why not?
1.In
your judgment, is it wrong, from an ethical point of view, for the auto
companies to submit plans for an automobile to China? Explain your answer?
2. Of
the various approaches to environmental ethical issues raised by this case?
Explain your answer.
3. Should the U.S. government
intervene in any way in the negotiations between U.S. auto companies and the
Chinese government? Explain.
1. In your judgment, do the
managers of the Robert Hall store have any ethical obligations to change their
salary policies? If you do not think they should change, then explain why they
have an obligation to change and describe the kinds of changes they should
make. Would it make any difference to your analysis if, instead of two
departments in the same store, it involved two different Robert Hall Stores,
one for men and one for women? Would it make a difference if two stores (one
for men and one for women) owned by different companies were involved? Explain
each of your answers in terms of the relevant ethical principles upon which you
are relying.
2. Suppose that there were very
few males applying for clerks’ jobs in Wilmington while females were flooding
the clerking job market. Would this competitive factor justify paying males
more than females? Why? Suppose that 95 percent of the women in Wilmington who
were applying for clerks’ jobs were single women with children who were on
welfare while 95 percent of the men were single with no families to support.
Would this need factor justify paying females more than males? Why? Suppose for
the sake of argument that men were better at selling than women, would this
justify different salaries?
3. If you think the managers of
the Robert Hall store should pay their male and female clerks equal wages
because they do “substantially the same work” then do you also think that
ideally each worker’s salary should be pegged to the work he or she
individually performs (such as by having each worker sell on commission)? Why?
Would a commission system be preferable from a utilitarian point of view considering
the substantial book keeping expenses it would involve? From the point of view
of justice? What does the phrase substantially the same mean to you?
1) What are the legal issues
involved in this case, and what are the moral issues? How are the two different
kinds of issues different from each other, and how are they related to each
other? Identify and distinguish the “systemic, corporate and individual issues”
involved in this case.
2) In your judgment, was it
morally wrong for Shawn Fanning to develop and release his technology to the
world given its possible consequences? Was it morally wrong for an individual
to use Napster’s website and software to copy for free the copy righted music
on another person’s hard drive? If you believe it was wrong, then explain
exactly why it was wrong. If you believe it was not morally wrong, then how
would you defend your views against the claim that such copying is stealing?
Assume that it was not Illegal for an individual to copy music using Napster.
Would there be anything immoral with doing so? Explain?
3. Assume that it is morally
wrong for a person to use Napster’s website and software to make a copy of
copyrighted music. Who, then, world be morally responsible for this person’s
wrong doing? Would only the person himself be morally responsible? Was Napster,
the company, morally responsible?
Wash shawn Fanning morally
responsible? Was any employee of Napster, the company, morally responsible? Was
the operator of the server or that portion of the Internet that the person used
morally responsible? What if the person did not know that the music was
copyrighted or did not think that it was illegal to copy copyrighted music?
4. Do the music companies share any of the moral
responsibility for what has happened? How do you think technology like Napster
is likely to change the music industry? In you judgment, are these changes
ethically good or ethically bad?
BUSINESS ETHICS
CASE
-1 (20 Marks)
Questions:
1.
Was the suspension fair?
2.
Did Joan act responsibly?
3.
Should she be fired?
CASE-2
(20 Marks)
Questions:
1)
Should you tell your customers?
2)
Should you discount the price?
3)
Should you tell your employees, so they will be knowledgeable with the
customers?
4)
Would you use this cement on foundations for your own house?
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CASE-3
(20 Marks)
Questions:
1)
Should Fred be reinstated?
2)
Was the company fair to Fred in helping him receive treatment?
3)
Did the personnel director behave ethically toward Fred?
4)
Did he act ethically for his company?
5)
Would it be fair to other employees to reinstate Fred?
CASE-4
(20 Marks)
Questions:
1)
The question is, who is responsible?
2)
Against whom should criminal charges be leveled?
3)
What should be done, if anything, to punish the corporation itself?
4)
What about the CEO?
BUSINESS ETHICS
1.} Define
business ethics. Why do we need to study business ethics?
2.} Define
morality. Discuss some characteristics of morality?
3.}
Briefly discuss utilitarianism. Discuss the problems of measurement.
4.} Make a
presentation about two male and two female corporate executives that you
admire?
5.} Define
ecological ethics. Distinguish between private and social costs?
6.}
Discuss the types of job discrimination. How can we determine job
discrimination?
7.} What
is affirmative action? Discuss some of the major arguments for and against
affirmative action.
8.}
Discuss why values are important for an organization. Discuss the importance of
trans-cultural values. Find out some cultural/business values of different
countries.
9.}
Discuss the characteristics of high-performing teams.
10.} Write
a few paragraphs about an Indian organization that you admire. What are its
values?
BUSINESS ETHICS
1. Explain, in light of their theories,
what Locke, Smith, Ricardo, and Marx would probably say about the events in
this case.
2. Explain which view of property-Locke’s
or Marx’s- lies behind the positions of the drug companies GlaxoSmithKline and
Bristol-Myers Squibb and of the Indian companies such as Cipla. Which of the
two group-GlaxoSmithKline and Bristol-Myers Squibb on the one hand, and the
Indian companies on the other –do you think holds the correct view of property
in this case? Explain your answer.
1. Identify the behaviors that you think
are ethically questionable in the history of Microsoft. Evaluate the ethics of
these behaviors.
2. What characteristics of the market for
operating systems do you think created the monopoly market that Microsoft’s
operating system enjoyed? Evaluate this market in terms of utilitarianism,
rights, and justice (your analysis should make use of the textbook’s discussion
of the effects of monopoly markets on the utility of participants in the
market, on the moral rights of participants in the market, and on the
distribution of benefits and burdens among participants in the market), giving
explicit examples from the operating systems industry to illustrate your
points.
3. In your view, should the government
have sued Microsoft for violation of the antitrust laws? In your view, was
Judge Jackson’s order that Microsoft be broken into two companies fair to
Microsoft? Was Judge Kollar-Kotelly’s November 1, 2004 decision fair? Was the
April 2004 decision of the European Commission fair to Microsoft? Explain your
answers.
4. Who, if anyone, is harmed by the kind
of market that Microsoft’s operating system has enjoyed? Explain your answer.
What kind of public policies, if any, should we have to deal with industries
like the operating system industry?
1. What are the systemic, corporate, and
individual issues raised in this case?
2. How should wildlife species like grouse
or deer be valued, and how should that value be balanced against the economic
interests of the of company like Questar?
3. In light of the U.S. economy’s
dependence on oil, and in light of the environmental impact of Questar drilling
operation, is Questar morally obligated to cease its drilling operation on the
Pinedale Mesa? Explain
4. What, if anything, should Questar be doing
differently?
5. In your view, have the environmental
interest groups identified in the case behaved ethically?
1. In your judgment, did Becton Dickinson
have an obligation to provide the safety syringe in all its sizes in 1991?
Explain your position, using the materials from this chapter and the principles
of utilitarianism, rights, justice, and caring.
2. Should manufacturers be held liable for
failing to market all the products for which they hold exclusive patents when
someone’s injury would have been avoided if they had marketed those products?
Explain your answer.
3. In your judgment, who was morally
responsible for Maryann Rockwood’s accidental needlestick: Maryann Rockwood?
The clinic that employed her? The government agencies that merely issued
guidelines? Becton Dickinson?
4. Evaluate the ethics of Becton
Dickinson’s use of the GPO system in the late 1990s. Are the GPO’s monopolies?
Are they ethical? Explain.
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