A. Ethical Leader Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors is changing the culture of one of the largest automotive companies applying ethical leadership. Since being appointed CEO in January 2014, GM has experienced impressive positive guidance under Mary Barra's ethical style. Decisions at GM aren't made anymore based solely on boosting stock values. The old rules of running a major automotive giant have been broken, tossed out and replaced with new inspiring conscientious ways of accomplishing a profitable business. Responsibility is one of Mary Barra's positive traits that has a huge influence on how she leads people. According to Mark Phelan of the Detroit Free Press, "phrases such as "customer first" and "good stewards of our owners'
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The recipients of the artificial knee will benefit from a quicker recovery time after the surgery. This results in less pain, less pain medication, fewer follow-up patient visits to the doctor, less cost to the patients and insurance companies with possible lower insurance premiums for all. Those few recipients unfortunate to experience difficulties even to the point of death should not be a deterrent to the majority from receiving all the benefits of this new artificial knee. The net good of this new device could also increase the business for doctors, nurses and hospital’s profitability increasing their bottom line maintaining employment for many families and possibly adding new employees in manufacturing, health care and insurance …show more content…
How could the companies’ executives make a decision to sell purely with profit in mind and ignore how much pain, suffering and even death to a few of the recipients of this artificial knee? This could potentially affect the recipients’ family members lives with loss of income, living with disabilities, a Childs loss of a mother or father, a lifetime of ill effects. Withholding important information of potential side effects of the artificial knee is an outright lie to customers with no consideration of honesty and fairness. How do you justify the potential pain and death of a few just so others might be better off? Where is the compassion, the respect of human beings in this ethical dilemma? It is shortsighted outlook, the costs are lower now, but the long term care, treatments, medications, doctor and hospital visits will explode the health care costs to patients. The sales representative must fulfill the duties to humanity to make informed decisions concerning the artificial knee by disclosing all the information regardless of personally signing a nondisclosure agreement.
B1. Kohlberg’s Theory of Cognitive Moral Development
Cognitive moral development for society in the long term would best be served at the conventional stage 4 level. A broader picture develops beyond good behavior to consider society as well as duties and laws to base decisions
The recipients of the artificial knee will benefit from a quicker recovery time after the surgery. This results in less pain, less pain medication, fewer follow-up patient visits to the doctor, less cost to the patients and insurance companies with possible lower insurance premiums for all. Those few recipients unfortunate to experience difficulties even to the point of death should not be a deterrent to the majority from receiving all the benefits of this new artificial knee. The net good of this new device could also increase the business for doctors, nurses and hospital’s profitability increasing their bottom line maintaining employment for many families and possibly adding new employees in manufacturing, health care and insurance …show more content…
How could the companies’ executives make a decision to sell purely with profit in mind and ignore how much pain, suffering and even death to a few of the recipients of this artificial knee? This could potentially affect the recipients’ family members lives with loss of income, living with disabilities, a Childs loss of a mother or father, a lifetime of ill effects. Withholding important information of potential side effects of the artificial knee is an outright lie to customers with no consideration of honesty and fairness. How do you justify the potential pain and death of a few just so others might be better off? Where is the compassion, the respect of human beings in this ethical dilemma? It is shortsighted outlook, the costs are lower now, but the long term care, treatments, medications, doctor and hospital visits will explode the health care costs to patients. The sales representative must fulfill the duties to humanity to make informed decisions concerning the artificial knee by disclosing all the information regardless of personally signing a nondisclosure agreement.
B1. Kohlberg’s Theory of Cognitive Moral Development
Cognitive moral development for society in the long term would best be served at the conventional stage 4 level. A broader picture develops beyond good behavior to consider society as well as duties and laws to base decisions