Discluser Dilemma Case Study:

Dylan is a manager at a leading consumer electronics company. In his role, he must frequently interact with industry partners and customers. One day, Dylan met with a customer of one of his companys custom products. The custom product was a special chip for an electronic appliance that was currently in its final stages of review before market release. During the meeting, the customer wanted to know the method of making the chip, a process which was not specified in the given datasheet. The client claimed this information was needed to ensure that the chip would function properly when it was integrated with electronic appliances.

At first, Dylan was uncertain. He wanted to give his customer more details if it was for the benefit of his clients final product, but, at the same time, was concerned because the requested information was protected under his companys non-disclosure agreement (NDA).

Dylan decided to discuss the matter with his supervisor; however, Dylans manager was overseeing many projects and, knowing that Dylan was capable and experienced, entrusted him to take care of the situation. When he returned to work the next day, Dylan received an email from his customer. The message stated that, if the chips manufacturing methodology was not disclosed, the customer would cease further investments in the product.

Shocked, Dylan believed that if the customer could not abide by the NDA, he should tell the contract should be broken off. However, doing so would mean losing a significant amount of profit they had intended on garnering from selling the chip. On the other hand, sharing confidential information with his customer could cause negative repercussions, especially if his company were to discover the legal breach.

Although it is highly unlikely that the extra chip information would be used by Dylans client for malicious purposes, its disclosure co uld potentially affect his companys reputation, lead to mistrust in the company and compromise Dylans position. What should Dylan do?

Question :

write the three different senarious describing what Dylan might do if he applied each of the three frameworks. More specifically decribe Dylan action if he applied the utilitarianism, the principle-based, and the virtue-based models.