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Business Ethics In Action Managing Human Excellence In Organizations 2nd Edition Domènec Melé - Solutions
Why might the regulators have failed to detect the fraud despite the many alerts, especially that from Markopolos?
What is the problem and what alternatives can be proposed?
Has Junseo assessed all the dimensions of his decision, seemingly almost concluded already? Has he acted with practical wisdom?
What would you recommend to Junseo? And Jia?
To reflect on requirements of justice and honesty for business?
To understand restitution and compensation for damages?
To gain an insight into the ethical issues related to business contracts?
To discuss some forms of misappropriation, industrial espionage and fraud?
To consider ethical issues regarding trade secrets and conflicts of interest?
To analyse the morality of tax evasion and tax avoidance?
To become more familiar with the moral dimension of insider trading?
To define and evaluate irregular and questionable payment and different forms of corruption, including bribery and extortion?
Analyse the questionable payments described in the case and the shortterm and long-term consequences of the practice.
What is the responsibility of the CEO and the executives involved in such practices? Was it right to pay because ‘Enel employees had asked for money in return for the contract’?
How would you recommend to the new Siemens CEO to overcome the situation generated by the scandals?
Why might Alberto’s company have this policy of not making gifts to the purchasing managers?
What do you think about Alberto’s boss’s behaviour?
What would you recommend to Alberto?
To become familiar with different meanings of responsibility and to distinguish between responsibility, accountability and liability
To discuss for what, and to whom, we are responsible
To gain an understanding of the criteria for ascribing responsibility
To consider to what extent individuals within an organization bear responsibility for their actions
To distinguish four forms of individual moral responsibility
To differentiate between direct and indirect intentionality and to gain an understanding of responsibility for the consequences of one’s actions
To evaluate the degree of responsibility in collaborating in other people’s actions
To discuss what the responsibility of an individual within an organization is
To reflect whether in certain situations cooperating in wrongdoing can be acceptable
To discuss the practice of whistle-blowing and the conditions for its moral appropriateness
What types of criteria were used to make the decision to deploy the defeat device? Did the decision-maker foresee predictable consequences?
Who can have been responsible for the VW emission scandal?
What challenges did Mr Müller face on 25 September 2015? What decisions would you have made if you were him?
Is there any responsibility of management or public authorities in this incident or was what happened completely unforeseeable?
What ethical values or principles are involved in the lack of accurate reporting of cracks at the nuclear reactors in the late 1980s and 1990s?
What could Tepco management do to improve the sense of responsibility within the firm?
Suppose that when John Pepper discovered the espionage, he also discovered that very similar information appeared in the business media the day before the trash bins were raided. How does the analysis change?
In the previous exercise, suppose that shortly after the Unilever story appeared, other media outlets reported that the journalist paid a Unilever insider for the information, and the insider was fired.
Suppose that P&G acquires secret Unilever marketing plans from an attached file that a Unilever employee mistakenly sends to a P&G employee.
In the previous exercise, suppose that the attached file is deliberately sent to P&G from a disgruntled Unilever employee who was fired for some other reason.
Is all spying wrong? For example, is spying on another country for national security generalizable?
Spy or customer?2 Business Equipment Corporation (BEC) has developed a new technology that will enable it to launch a fax machine superior to anything now on the market. Kyle, product manager at BEC, goes into panic when he reads that Hiyota, a competitor, plans to release a new high-quality fax
It is argued above that returning a damaged car violates the sales agreement because the car is not in the same condition as when the agreement was made. Suppose Joe refutes this by pointing out that even if there had been no accident, he would not have returned the car in precisely the same
There is a small chance that Juan will get in serious trouble with his boss when it is later discovered that the trade-in car is damaged. How might Joe argue that this does not affect the outcome of the utilitarian test?
Suppose Joe grants that if sellers always delivered damaged goods when the damage is inconspicuous, buyers would check carefully. But he, in particular, would still be able to deliver the damaged car, because the dealer would have already checked the car carefully and would not check again. Let’s
You engage a real estate “agent” (actually, broker) to help you find a house in an unfamiliar city and give her the price range. She only shows you houses that are at the upper end of the range, because her commission is a fixed percentage of the sales price. Does her conduct conform to
Pricey insurance.5 Mark, an insurance salesman, is concerned about the product he sells most. It is a“whole” life policy that provides death benefits, retirement savings, and a fund that can be accessed in an emergency. The problem is that it is not a good deal for the young families who buy it
It is often said that if there is risk associated with a medical product, there should be full disclosure of that risk. Can you defend this claim using the conditions for rational choice, even when disclosure is not required by law?
A pharmaceutical company has developed a remarkably effective headache remedy and is deliberating whether to market it over the counter or as a prescription drug. Over-the-counter sales would be more profitable and would reach far more headache sufferers. However, the medication doesn’t ease
A new flu medication can act as a cure or as a vaccine, but a curative dose is 10 times larger than a vaccination. The cure and the vaccine always work. Half of healthy persons who don’t receive the vaccine will get the flu. The medication is in short supply. Health authorities can use all of it
In the previous exercise, suppose that the vaccine works only half the time.What allocation maximizes utility? What allocation(s) satisfies the Difference Principle?
A million persons nationwide have a chronic disease. A thousand of them have a rare, severe form of the disease that is fatal, and the rest have a mild form that gives them a headache once a week. A new bioengineered drug can cure a mild case or convert a severe case to a mild case. The drug is
In the previous exercise, suppose that severe cases are not fatal but only cause headaches twice a week.Everything else is the same.What is the ethical allocation? Hint. Examples such as this one suggest that a purely Rawlsian allocation may be inappropriate when the utilitarian cost is too high.
Suppose the boss compromises and allows you to describe the list of performance results as a “sample”of results (it is, after all, a sample consisting of all but one). Does this change the analysis?
Suppose the boss compromises some more and allows you to report only the average performance of the funds. Does this change the analysis?
On sale next week.9 Bernie walks into an electronics store and tells Sam, the salesman, that he is looking for a particular model of flat-screen TV. The model is in stock and will in fact go on sale for 15% off the following week.However, Sam does not mention the upcoming sale to Bernie, because
Cheap stuffing.10 Elite Furniture Manufacturing has a reputation for high-quality upholstered furniture.Hard economic times have hit, however, and the company must cut costs quickly. Top management orders that from now on, an inferior grade of padding will be used in the upholstery, on the
Uncrushable Volvos.11 At a monster truck rally in Vermont, a huge “Bear Foot” truck drove over the roofs of several cars and crushed all but a Volvo. Volvo’s advertising agency recreated this scene for a highly acclaimed television commercial. Engineering analysis confirms that the Volvo is
Delayed delivery.12 Don is production scheduler at Fitzgerald Machine Company, where a large order is scheduled to go out Friday. The customer calls, however, and asks Don to delay the delivery at least a week beyond Friday, due to a labor dispute at the customer’s plant. On authorization from
Taking credit.13 Janice is Chief of Research and Development. Her boss asked her some time ago to design software that would solve certain problems at the company, but she has been too busy to think about it.However, her assistant John invents a creative solution on his own initiative and shares it
Poor morale.14 Stacy graduated near the top of his business school class and takes a job at a growing CPA firm. Despite his ability and training, Stacy finds himself unable to deal with several assignments.He gradually learns that there has been heavy turnover at the senior level, and as a result
A pizza puzzle.15 Sharon is Restaurant and Food Services Manager for Marigold Inn. She is concerned about a decline in room service orders, the highest margin portion of her operation. After some marketing research, she concludes that guests are ordering pizzas from outside the hotel because they
Unmentioned plans.16 It is October, and Boris is in his third year at a large accounting firm. He finds the job less than satisfactory due to his heavy workload. He therefore applies for several MBA programs and expects to enroll in one of them next fall.Meanwhile, a firm partner in charge of staff
The incredible shrinking potato chip package.17 Julie is brand manager for potato chips. Due to an abrupt rise in the price of potatoes, she must raise the unit price 15% to maintain the already-slim margins. She hits on the idea of reducing the package contents 13% but retaining the current price.
Better is good enough.18 Kirk is being groomed for the controller’s position in a medium-sized manufacturing firm.While attending a monthly financial meeting, he listens intently as the company’s chief engineer explains that the firm’s new plant, now on the drawing board, will require an
Another type of discrimination.19 Paula is Brand Manager for a line of soap used to scrub floors. Her assistant Terry is uneasy about the fact that Paula’s plan calls for advertising spots that feature unattractive actors. In her view, this kind of ad promotes harmful stereotyping of
Whistle-blower accepts a deal.20 An auditor employed by a pharmaceutical company submitted documentation to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to support the approval of new drugs.He later suspected inaccuracies in the information he provided for one particular drug and, upon investigation,
Family plans.21 Barbara has been with Apex for four years and is now controller. Apex will merge with another firm on July 1, two weeks from now, and the ensuring staff cuts will be announced on August 1.The new company will need only one controller. Barbara hears through the grapevine that Sam,
What causes triggered the ‘subprime crisis’? Can you see any moral aspect?
What might have been the motivations of the executives in Lehman and other banks involved in subprime mortgage loans?
The subprime crisis brought about notorious damage to the common good, but should the Lehman executives have been able to foresee this harm?
Can you identify a certain shared view of the firm and its purpose in society in those who made the strategic decisions in Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns?
What ethical issues can you see in this case?
Compare the vision of the company and its purpose before and after privatization.
What factors may have motivated those 46 suicides of FT employees?
Could you give some specific recommendations to Mr Richard for facing his challenge?
To discuss ethical aspects of the free market and of the role of government in the economic sphere
To discuss the role of business laws and their limits
To reflect on conditions for an acceptable capitalism
To posit the question of for whose benefit a company should be managed
To discuss why the purpose of business is relevant to business ethics
To discuss different proposals about the purpose of the business firm
To reflect on the role of the common good in determining the purpose of business
To discuss the common good–based multi–ends of the firm and their connection with the particular purpose of each company
List the main decisions taken by Calisto Tanzi that underlie this case, analysing them from different perspectives (economic, ethical, relational and learning). What latent reasons or traits of character might have prompted him to make those decisions?
What motivations did Calisto Tanzi use to get the employees, executives and directors of his business group to support him in his work?
Contrast the work of Calisto Tanzi with that of the new administrator of Parmalat, Enrico Bondi.
What do you think about the irregular practices described in this case?
How do you evaluate Jorge’s decision to accept the post at Bameto?
What would you do if you were Jorge?
What are the main features of Bill George’s vision of leadership and the purpose of business?
Which values and virtues does Bill George show in this case? How were these forged through his life?
What alternative could Bill George have taken regarding the ‘European affair’? What might have motivated his decision?
What would you have recommended Bill George do to resolve the Japanese affair and to avoid similar problems in the future?
What motivated Jack Lowe Sr to introduce the servant leadership philosophy?What do you think of how the philosophy was implemented?
How would you analyse the ethical aspects of Jack Lowe Jr’s vision?
How can the servant leadership philosophy contribute to building a good company?
How would you evaluate the founding ideas and values of AES from ethical and performance perspectives?
What purpose of the firm do Sant and Bakke have in mind? How was it implemented?
What do you recommend to Gluski regarding the giving of a seat on the AES board to Jeffrey Ubben?
What strengths and weaknesses can you see in the Unilab corporate philosophy?
How is it possible to make medicine ‘accessible to the poor’, selling at a price 20–60 per cent below their competitors’ prices, and still be profitable?
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