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Squires Security Systems Case Study
I. Relevant Facts
• Beth is the manager over the district that Janeen is selling in.
• Janeen is a six month employee who just recently finished training.
• Janeen’s training included a corporate selling manual and training, and a short period of shadowing Beth’s sales calls.
• The company that they work for is a Security Firm.
• Janeen is under review by her manager, Beth.
• Beth gives faulty information to potential customers about competing firm’s security systems.
• Once Janeen found out about the faulty information on her own, she modified her sales pitch.
II. Ethical Issues
This case brings up many ethical issues that need to be addressed.
i. Beth values success, while Janeen values honesty. Therefore, she is torn about what to do. ii. In this situation the question is brought up, who should Janeen be loyal …show more content…
Using this approach to the problem would be the using of this rule in practice. Janeen confronting Beth would minimize the rights violation of Beth, because she is being confronted by Janeen. Beth has the basic right to respect, and Janeen is respecting Beth by confronting her face to face.
2) Janeen can go along with Beth’s faulty information, and propitiate to Beth because she is the boss.
• This approach of all the possible alternatives is the least ethical in the case of Kant’s imperative. First of all, Janeen’s rights of a worker are being violated because she is lying and being dishonest, and she knows it. Second of all, the rights of the customers are being violated because they are being given false or faulty information about possible alternatives. Third, according to Kant’s imperative, a decision is decided to be just if it could be law. Lying or bearing false witness is illegal, and very unethical.
3) Janeen can tell the company about Beth’s faulty information and let them handle
Squires Security Systems Case Study
I. Relevant Facts
• Beth is the manager over the district that Janeen is selling in.
• Janeen is a six month employee who just recently finished training.
• Janeen’s training included a corporate selling manual and training, and a short period of shadowing Beth’s sales calls.
• The company that they work for is a Security Firm.
• Janeen is under review by her manager, Beth.
• Beth gives faulty information to potential customers about competing firm’s security systems.
• Once Janeen found out about the faulty information on her own, she modified her sales pitch.
II. Ethical Issues
This case brings up many ethical issues that need to be addressed.
i. Beth values success, while Janeen values honesty. Therefore, she is torn about what to do. ii. In this situation the question is brought up, who should Janeen be loyal …show more content…
Using this approach to the problem would be the using of this rule in practice. Janeen confronting Beth would minimize the rights violation of Beth, because she is being confronted by Janeen. Beth has the basic right to respect, and Janeen is respecting Beth by confronting her face to face.
2) Janeen can go along with Beth’s faulty information, and propitiate to Beth because she is the boss.
• This approach of all the possible alternatives is the least ethical in the case of Kant’s imperative. First of all, Janeen’s rights of a worker are being violated because she is lying and being dishonest, and she knows it. Second of all, the rights of the customers are being violated because they are being given false or faulty information about possible alternatives. Third, according to Kant’s imperative, a decision is decided to be just if it could be law. Lying or bearing false witness is illegal, and very unethical.
3) Janeen can tell the company about Beth’s faulty information and let them handle