John Work Ethics Case Study

John works as a salesperson for a warehouse supply company in Denver, Colorado, and enjoys what he does, until he got into an accident, which left him paralyzed and is in a wheelchair. Albert, who is the sales manager for John’s district is pressured by the warehouse supply’s vice president of sales Frank Bishoff for not making high sales and not reaching productive numbers for the company. Frank Bishoff tells Albert that the numbers and sales has to reach companies goals or some of the employees will have to be let go of their job. Albert decides it might be a good idea to have John submit false numbers and fix it later on, in order to relieve some of the pressure from Frank and upper management. Through ethical problems and the caring theory, these issues shall be addressed in order to have better solution to solve this ethical issue. There is some ethical issue in the story that needs to be addressed. Having John work, as a sales representative is an ethical issue, because John is paralyzed and currently on a wheelchair plus the job itself posed high health risk for him. According to the employment act, it is an ethical issue. Since John is in a wheelchair, he shouldn’t be a …show more content…
In this case, there is no proof of special relationship between John, Albert, and Frank. Now John is the most vulnerable individual, because he is currently in the low position level of the company, and the position he currently works makes him vulnerable as a result of preconceived opinions in the organization against a disabled worker. The caring theory would specify that the most vulnerable that is capable of being hurt earn the most consideration. Also, Albert should do the ethical thing and bring in a HR to help solve their bad situation rather than the unethical way by pressuring John to submit false