Assignment 2
Ninoska Soto
In today’s highly competitive workplace, confidentiality is important for many reasons. One of these reasons is because failure to properly secure and protect confidential business information can lead to the loss of business or customers. Another reason is because secret information can be misused to commit legal activities, which can lead to costly lawsuits for the employer. Ethics also play an important role on how defining an employee moral judgments about right and wrong decisions. Thinking about a situation from a different ethical perspective help us make the best ethical decision.
In today’s competitive market, companies need to be as innovative as possible to prosper in the business environment and to keep the pace with progress. Information about this new retail store will make a company’s product unique and will bring profitable benefits to it, and keeping this information confidential is one …show more content…
He knows how serious this is about protecting intellectual property. He also understands the significance of holding the company’s information confidential. If he was the one chosen among other employees to know this information is because his company trust him. Violating his obligations of confidentiality would also means unrespecting his ethical behaviors as a professional. The best decision he could make is measuring the consequences of the two decisions and choose the one with lighter consequences. Utilitarianism and Universal ethics are the best ethics to follow in this situation. On one hand, we have Universal ethics that would help him to decide if the action is ethical and everyone should follow it all the time. On the other hand we have Utilitarianism in which Luke should ask himself, which option does more good to
Ninoska Soto
In today’s highly competitive workplace, confidentiality is important for many reasons. One of these reasons is because failure to properly secure and protect confidential business information can lead to the loss of business or customers. Another reason is because secret information can be misused to commit legal activities, which can lead to costly lawsuits for the employer. Ethics also play an important role on how defining an employee moral judgments about right and wrong decisions. Thinking about a situation from a different ethical perspective help us make the best ethical decision.
In today’s competitive market, companies need to be as innovative as possible to prosper in the business environment and to keep the pace with progress. Information about this new retail store will make a company’s product unique and will bring profitable benefits to it, and keeping this information confidential is one …show more content…
He knows how serious this is about protecting intellectual property. He also understands the significance of holding the company’s information confidential. If he was the one chosen among other employees to know this information is because his company trust him. Violating his obligations of confidentiality would also means unrespecting his ethical behaviors as a professional. The best decision he could make is measuring the consequences of the two decisions and choose the one with lighter consequences. Utilitarianism and Universal ethics are the best ethics to follow in this situation. On one hand, we have Universal ethics that would help him to decide if the action is ethical and everyone should follow it all the time. On the other hand we have Utilitarianism in which Luke should ask himself, which option does more good to