Part A1:
In this case, the issues regarding the health concerns at Delectables Corporation are too significant to turn the other cheek. As a recent MBA graduate, benefiting the company’s shareholders is important to me, since they can significantly improve my own future at the company. That being said, as a strong believer in Utilitarianism and an Edward Freeman enthusiast, it is even more important that I make choices that are in the best interest of the largest number of people as well as the stakeholders. If my job is to improve plant operations, increase efficiency, and reduce costs, I must do everything I can to perform these tasks while maintaining proper business ethics. As a plant operations manager I would have no choice but to “blow the whistle” on the inspection protocol violations, because the products are not safe for the consumer stakeholders, employees are committing unethical acts in the workplace, and I would be going against my personal business ethical beliefs. Before proceeding with “blowing the whistle” on Delectables Corporation, I would have to give myself the Warren Buffet Test. In other words I would have to ask my self if I could look myself in the mirror if I don’t “blow the whistle”, which I could not. Also I would have to think about how this could negatively affect my own life as well as others. “Blowing the whistle” would mean likely losing my job, perhaps receiving harmful threats from employees, and being the cause of many lost jobs within the company. However the benefits of “blowing the whistle” would result in saving many stakeholders from becoming sick from salmonella poisoning, helping takedown an unethical corporation, and identifying unethical business employees. In the end I could never sign the quality control form because I would be going against my own business ethics. Additionally, as a utilitarian, I strongly believe that benefiting the largest number of people and the stakeholders is more important then benefiting my company’s shareholders. Part A2: My advice for upper management, in regard to improving the food safety and quality inspections, would be to begin by firing the employees who are consciously jeopardizing the health and safety of the stakeholders. Employees are currently the root of the problem for multiple reasons. The foreman’s are not taking inspections seriously and are consciously allowing contaminated jars to be shipped out into the public, employees are potentially bringing contamination into the factory by putting their uniforms on at home, and workers are indifferent to the quality control system. As result the current the current quality control director cannot be affective in the current working environment, since employees do not seem to care about the business regulations. Trusting employees to follow the rules of the business is essential since they are the ones responsible for handling the products last before they are send out into the market. A potential issue upper management will face by trying to increase quality control will be the treatment and threatening attitudes they may receive from the foreman’s. Foreman’s get paid by how many boxes they ship out so as a result, they unethically send out as many boxes as they can regardless of contamination. By putting an end to this the foreman’s pay will decrease resulting in unhappy employees. Part B: In order to insure that Delectables is passing safe and secure products out into the public, the government must play a part in ensuring that regulations are being followed. The role of the government is to protect the people of the United States, so if it avoids insuring that food is safe for consumers, they are neglecting that responsibility. Some of the biggest challenges the FDA and the State of Georgia …show more content…
The argument comes down to relativism, because unlike Americans, the people of San Lopegattia have become accustom to eating contaminated food. Therefore the people of San Lopegattia have developed higher levels of natural immunity to parasites and bacteria, like salmonella, resulting in being able to eat these foods without suffering from negative health affects. Shipping out the red-labeled boxes in America would be unlawful and unethical without question. However, sending the boxes to San Lopegattia is only unethical if it will hurt the majority of people rather than help them, which in this case it will
In this case, the issues regarding the health concerns at Delectables Corporation are too significant to turn the other cheek. As a recent MBA graduate, benefiting the company’s shareholders is important to me, since they can significantly improve my own future at the company. That being said, as a strong believer in Utilitarianism and an Edward Freeman enthusiast, it is even more important that I make choices that are in the best interest of the largest number of people as well as the stakeholders. If my job is to improve plant operations, increase efficiency, and reduce costs, I must do everything I can to perform these tasks while maintaining proper business ethics. As a plant operations manager I would have no choice but to “blow the whistle” on the inspection protocol violations, because the products are not safe for the consumer stakeholders, employees are committing unethical acts in the workplace, and I would be going against my personal business ethical beliefs. Before proceeding with “blowing the whistle” on Delectables Corporation, I would have to give myself the Warren Buffet Test. In other words I would have to ask my self if I could look myself in the mirror if I don’t “blow the whistle”, which I could not. Also I would have to think about how this could negatively affect my own life as well as others. “Blowing the whistle” would mean likely losing my job, perhaps receiving harmful threats from employees, and being the cause of many lost jobs within the company. However the benefits of “blowing the whistle” would result in saving many stakeholders from becoming sick from salmonella poisoning, helping takedown an unethical corporation, and identifying unethical business employees. In the end I could never sign the quality control form because I would be going against my own business ethics. Additionally, as a utilitarian, I strongly believe that benefiting the largest number of people and the stakeholders is more important then benefiting my company’s shareholders. Part A2: My advice for upper management, in regard to improving the food safety and quality inspections, would be to begin by firing the employees who are consciously jeopardizing the health and safety of the stakeholders. Employees are currently the root of the problem for multiple reasons. The foreman’s are not taking inspections seriously and are consciously allowing contaminated jars to be shipped out into the public, employees are potentially bringing contamination into the factory by putting their uniforms on at home, and workers are indifferent to the quality control system. As result the current the current quality control director cannot be affective in the current working environment, since employees do not seem to care about the business regulations. Trusting employees to follow the rules of the business is essential since they are the ones responsible for handling the products last before they are send out into the market. A potential issue upper management will face by trying to increase quality control will be the treatment and threatening attitudes they may receive from the foreman’s. Foreman’s get paid by how many boxes they ship out so as a result, they unethically send out as many boxes as they can regardless of contamination. By putting an end to this the foreman’s pay will decrease resulting in unhappy employees. Part B: In order to insure that Delectables is passing safe and secure products out into the public, the government must play a part in ensuring that regulations are being followed. The role of the government is to protect the people of the United States, so if it avoids insuring that food is safe for consumers, they are neglecting that responsibility. Some of the biggest challenges the FDA and the State of Georgia …show more content…
The argument comes down to relativism, because unlike Americans, the people of San Lopegattia have become accustom to eating contaminated food. Therefore the people of San Lopegattia have developed higher levels of natural immunity to parasites and bacteria, like salmonella, resulting in being able to eat these foods without suffering from negative health affects. Shipping out the red-labeled boxes in America would be unlawful and unethical without question. However, sending the boxes to San Lopegattia is only unethical if it will hurt the majority of people rather than help them, which in this case it will