Mismanagement or Fraud
Ethical decisions came from within each individual. Unfortunately, we are not born with a moral compass that points to the right or wrong decisions or choices we make in our everyday life. The choices we make to live and make good are bad choices comes from how we were raised. My moral standard and the person next to me will probably not be the same. “Moral standards are principles based on religious, cultural, or philosophical beliefs by which judgments are made about good or bad behavior. These beliefs can come from different sources. Your personal set of morals- your morality- represents a collection of all these influences as they are built up in your lifetime” (Ghillyer, 2014, p.4). Personally, if I am in doubt, I ask myself can I live with this decision and will anyone get hurt. In this case, Greg Mortenson could have made better ethical decisions.
In the article, Three Cups of Tea: Mismanagement or Fraud which states in April 2011 journalist Jon Krakauer and 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft …show more content…
They were the enablers for him to live a lifestyle on charity dollars. It was not as if he was taking twenty dollars here or there he took large amounts for personal use. They also misrepresented all of the charity work that they stated that they had done. From a business ethics point of view, the conduct of the CAI board was worse, because they continued taking money from people and misrepresented where the funds were actually going. CAI would keep Mortenson in a ‘visionary’ capacity to keep the money coming in, people donated because of his works. I believe that CAI did mislead the donors and they should have to pay the money back. People gave because they thought they were helping to build schools, they were misled too if they knew they were paying for vacations and clothing for the Mortenson’s family, they may not have donated at all. The right thing to do would be to give the money
Ethical decisions came from within each individual. Unfortunately, we are not born with a moral compass that points to the right or wrong decisions or choices we make in our everyday life. The choices we make to live and make good are bad choices comes from how we were raised. My moral standard and the person next to me will probably not be the same. “Moral standards are principles based on religious, cultural, or philosophical beliefs by which judgments are made about good or bad behavior. These beliefs can come from different sources. Your personal set of morals- your morality- represents a collection of all these influences as they are built up in your lifetime” (Ghillyer, 2014, p.4). Personally, if I am in doubt, I ask myself can I live with this decision and will anyone get hurt. In this case, Greg Mortenson could have made better ethical decisions.
In the article, Three Cups of Tea: Mismanagement or Fraud which states in April 2011 journalist Jon Krakauer and 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft …show more content…
They were the enablers for him to live a lifestyle on charity dollars. It was not as if he was taking twenty dollars here or there he took large amounts for personal use. They also misrepresented all of the charity work that they stated that they had done. From a business ethics point of view, the conduct of the CAI board was worse, because they continued taking money from people and misrepresented where the funds were actually going. CAI would keep Mortenson in a ‘visionary’ capacity to keep the money coming in, people donated because of his works. I believe that CAI did mislead the donors and they should have to pay the money back. People gave because they thought they were helping to build schools, they were misled too if they knew they were paying for vacations and clothing for the Mortenson’s family, they may not have donated at all. The right thing to do would be to give the money