Kellie Dillon
DATE: March 11, 2014
CLASS TITLE: MAN 128
TITLE OF WEBSITES/ARTICLES REVIEWED: Curing Ethical Blindness
MAGAZINE USED AND DATE: Corporate Compliance Insights September 9th, 2014
Website: corporatecomplianceinsights.com
I Summary:
This article is saying that corporate leaders need to take their blinders off. They need to look around and be aware of what they are doing to others both in the corporate world and with their customers. The analogy of the blind spot while driving is about a company that is only working toward their goal of making a profit and not looking around to see who they could be hurting. When it comes to driving a car and not looking in your blind spot you could not only hurt another person or persons but …show more content…
If you don't look around and see what you are doing to every aspect of your business you are putting the business in jeopardy. Also, learning that even small ethic problems can grow into larger ones needs to be thought about too. Just like in Business Ethics(Jennings, 2012) page 197 and they talk about "Turning a Blind Eye". By not looking around and seeing what is going on leaders are letting the little things get past . Small unethical things can be seen as "not a big deal" until everyone is doing it. There are always "Gray Areas" that aren't looked at that could cause a major issue if everyone does it. Just like the gray areas (in Case 4.21 of (Jennings, 2012) page 275) when home owner that could afford the payments on their home but because their home value had gone down so much that if they wanted to sell it wouldn't sell for what they owe on the balance of their mortgage. By not looking around and seeing what their foreclosure would do to the value of other homes in the neighborhood they were not looking at the blind …show more content…
Even when a player, like Jose Canseco, (page 139 paragraph 5) (Jennings, 2012) was suspected of using steroids, he wasn't asked to take a drug test. No one even talked to him about it. When it comes to the China Recalls , they must have the focus to produce products without looking at possible recalls. Product recalls can cause a major financial burden on a company but the focus is to get the product out for sale, make money and then find a way to fix it. One things that is done for the GM recalls was that they passed the financial burden on to the suppliers so that they could focus on building new vehicles.
III Lessons
DATE: March 11, 2014
CLASS TITLE: MAN 128
TITLE OF WEBSITES/ARTICLES REVIEWED: Curing Ethical Blindness
MAGAZINE USED AND DATE: Corporate Compliance Insights September 9th, 2014
Website: corporatecomplianceinsights.com
I Summary:
This article is saying that corporate leaders need to take their blinders off. They need to look around and be aware of what they are doing to others both in the corporate world and with their customers. The analogy of the blind spot while driving is about a company that is only working toward their goal of making a profit and not looking around to see who they could be hurting. When it comes to driving a car and not looking in your blind spot you could not only hurt another person or persons but …show more content…
If you don't look around and see what you are doing to every aspect of your business you are putting the business in jeopardy. Also, learning that even small ethic problems can grow into larger ones needs to be thought about too. Just like in Business Ethics(Jennings, 2012) page 197 and they talk about "Turning a Blind Eye". By not looking around and seeing what is going on leaders are letting the little things get past . Small unethical things can be seen as "not a big deal" until everyone is doing it. There are always "Gray Areas" that aren't looked at that could cause a major issue if everyone does it. Just like the gray areas (in Case 4.21 of (Jennings, 2012) page 275) when home owner that could afford the payments on their home but because their home value had gone down so much that if they wanted to sell it wouldn't sell for what they owe on the balance of their mortgage. By not looking around and seeing what their foreclosure would do to the value of other homes in the neighborhood they were not looking at the blind …show more content…
Even when a player, like Jose Canseco, (page 139 paragraph 5) (Jennings, 2012) was suspected of using steroids, he wasn't asked to take a drug test. No one even talked to him about it. When it comes to the China Recalls , they must have the focus to produce products without looking at possible recalls. Product recalls can cause a major financial burden on a company but the focus is to get the product out for sale, make money and then find a way to fix it. One things that is done for the GM recalls was that they passed the financial burden on to the suppliers so that they could focus on building new vehicles.
III Lessons