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Business
Ethics
1.
Analyze
the ethics of marketing Publius using utilitarianism, rights, justice, and
caring. In your judgments, 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 any way morally responsible for these? Explain your answers.
3.
In
your judgment, should governments allow the implementation of Publius? Why or
why not?
1.
Fully
explain the effects that payment like those which Lockheed made to the Japanese
have on the structure of a market.
2.
In
your view, were Lockheed’s payments to the various Japanese parties “bribes” or
“extortions”? Explain your response
fully.
3.
In
your judgment, did Mr. A. Carl Kotchian act rightly from a moral point of
view? (Your answer should take into
account the effects of the payments on the welfare of the societies affected,
on the right and duties of the various parties involved, and on the
distribution of benefits and burdens among the groups involved.) In your
judgment, was Mr. Kotchian morally responsible for his Actions? Was he, in the end, treated fairly?
4.
In
its October 27, 1980, issue, Business Week argued that every corporation has a
corporate culture –that is, values that set a pattern
for its employee’s activities, opinions and actions and that are instilled in
succeeding generations of employees (pp.148-60) Describe, if you can, the
corporate culture of Lockheed and relate that culture to Mr. Kotchian’s
actions. Describe some strategies for
changing that culture in ways that might make foreign payments less likely.
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 ethics outlined in this chapter, which approach sheds most light on
the 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, would 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 your judgment, are
these changes ethically good or ethically bad?
1. Discuss this case from the perspective of
utilitarianism, rights, justice and caring. What insight does virtue theory
shed on the ethics of the events described in this case?
2. “In a free enterprise society all adults
should be allowed to make their own decisions
about how they choose to earn their living.” Discuss the statement in light of
the Lily case.
3. In your judgment, is the policy of using
homeless alcoholics for test subjects
morally appropriate? Explain the reasons
for your judgment. What does your
judgment imply about the moral legitimacy of a free market in labor?
4. How should the managers of Lily handle
this issue?
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