What Is Your Ethical Responsibility?

In Chapter 3, we learn that the environment and ethics strongly impacts the practice of Management. Read the scenario below and carefully craft your

responses.

Your company has decided to donate to the Together Support (TS) Charity. TS is a well-known national charity with a large presence in Metro Detroit.

Your organization supports this charity, and top managers have decided to launch a campaign to encourage employees for individual donations. However,

you know that several of the employees on your team cannot afford to make donations due to legitimate financial hardships.

Top management has set a goal of "100% Participation" and will receive reports of individual contributors to see who is and isn't supporting their "very

important cause".

At Monday morning's Manager's meeting, you decide to ask a few of your peers about the request for donations, and here's what you find:

Kelly - "I'm going to donate, and require my employees to as well. I don't want to be called into anyone's office. There's no way I want anyone working for me to

be on that bad list!"

Pat - "It sounds like they really want our support, and it's good to donate to those less fortunate, so I think I will contribute. I'll make sure everyone on my team

know about it, but will let each emplovee decide.

Chris - "I have heard that the TS organization has been filled with corruption, and I don't think it's right to give to them. I will work with my employees to find

another charity to support. If anyone from top-management asks me why my employees don't support the TS foundation, I'll show them the information I have.

I'll also ask them to support their own!"

Instructions:

1. In your initial post (by Wednesday), describe how you would approach this with your team. What would you say to them? Think about the Four

Approaches to Resolving Ethical Dilemmas, along with the Levels of Moral Development (Kohlberg), and include both when developing your response.

2. For your replies (on at least two different days, by Sunday), find at least two individuals who look at things differently, than you, and engage in a

discussion. Can you try to persuade your fellow student to see things differently? (Note: replies need to be of this nature in order to earn points!)

Posts and replies should be complete thoughts, add value, and be written using College English. They should also contain examples and/or reference to the

text/lecture where appropriate. Be sure to check back regularly and answer any questions posed to you. See the course syllabus for the quantity requirements and

for more details.

Note: you won't have access to others' posts until you've posted in the forum