At the end of each chapter is a Case Study on Drugs and Drug Testing at Coke. Please read it, and answer all the questions that follow it.

An accounting office manager stumbles on a warehouse full of the original, cocaine Coca-Cola.

Make the case that he has a responsibility to provide the bottles to his workers and encourage them to drink the liquid down. What benefits could the manager hope to receive? Why does the manager hold a professional responsibility to achieve those benefits?

Make the case that the manager has a responsibility to provide bottles of both the original (now illegal) formula and todays formula to staff members, and allow them to choose to drink either one, both, or neither.

Make the case that he has a responsibility to provide bottles of only todays formula to staff members, and allow them to drink it or not.

Make the case that, ethically, he should tolerate no Coca-Cola of any kind in the workplace.

In a web posting, mmafan, from Dayton, Ohio, writes about his experience working for the Coca-Cola company: We even had someone witness a merchandiser, on the clock, in uniform, and in a company vehicle, smoking a joint in a store parking lot. Not only did the union prevent Coke from terminating or disciplining him, but they also protected him from submitting to a drug test. So Coke had to just let it go. All the union did was protect the lazy, the incompetent, and the screw-ups if you ask me.mmafan, commented on Isgchas, It sounds like working for Coke is bad all over the country. Does anybody work for a union shop? Is that any better?, Indeed, accessed June 1, 2011, http://www.indeed.com/forum/cmp/Coca--Cola/get-job-at- Coca-Cola/t10481/p2.

In response, the union could mount a number of arguments to defend its decision to not let Coke administer a drug test. The most frequently cited ethical reasons to refuse drug tests are the following:

To protect the right to privacy

To protect the right to freedom

Because of slippery slope concerns

Because of imperfect testing

Which of these kinds of arguments would best support the unions decision to protect the employee from a drug test? What would the argument look like?

Mmafan believes the union did nothing more than protect the lazy, the incompetent, and the screw-ups. This complaint is actually the root of a powerful and thoughtful ethical argument in favor of drug testing because drug-free workplaces maximize employee performance. Fill out the argument:

Whose obligations are served by drug tests?

What are those obligations?

Name an ethical theory that forcefully supports the use of

drug testing in the workplace. Whats the reasoning?

The Coca-Cola companys history is laced with cocaine.

Given the fact that cocaine was a key ingredient in getting the Coca-Cola Company off the ground, does that organization have any right to preclude the use of drugs in the workplace or anywhere else? Why or why not?

When Coke included coke, the substance was legal, and a respected medicine. Should that fact affect your answer to the previous question? Why or why not?