I work for a small family business that my father started about 20 years ago. I do not have much experience in corporate world since we only have about 7 to 8 employees. However, having ethical issues will always come up with any type of business, it’s just how its resolved will be what changes from big companies to small ones. The issue that I will relate is one about a product of ours called an extrusion welder. This product is a plastic welding machine made for the plastic liner industry. The main specification that customers look at on these types of machines is the amount of output that it can handle. In our case the product we claim can handle up to 9 lbs/hr. Now we had an issue with one of our suppliers that made this output
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and company guidelines are a little different from others. This is because we are a family-run business in which we keep our culture and religious values to run our business. For this situation staying honest is a key factor to keep our busniess band and image from being ruined. Management wanted to “do the right thing” no matter what result we would face. This type of thought is in line with deontological ethics as defined in the book. Furthermore, if we decided to keep selling the product as is which was a lower speed. We would fall into ethical trap of conformity with all of our employees to continue on the same way. This would damage the moral ethics of all my employees which would results in either lower production or lower quality of …show more content…
Since management has based their ethics off of culture and religious values which are personal values, the decision is based more with moral character than positive outcome. Our family culture originating from India has very traditional ethics of how one should live a good clean life. This good clean honest life is what drove the owner to keep up with its roots no matter what happens to the end result this being the sales or financial stability of the company. In the end it all did come together to work out for Polyweld making little profit with the products that are not up to standard but largely not hurting the brand
and company guidelines are a little different from others. This is because we are a family-run business in which we keep our culture and religious values to run our business. For this situation staying honest is a key factor to keep our busniess band and image from being ruined. Management wanted to “do the right thing” no matter what result we would face. This type of thought is in line with deontological ethics as defined in the book. Furthermore, if we decided to keep selling the product as is which was a lower speed. We would fall into ethical trap of conformity with all of our employees to continue on the same way. This would damage the moral ethics of all my employees which would results in either lower production or lower quality of …show more content…
Since management has based their ethics off of culture and religious values which are personal values, the decision is based more with moral character than positive outcome. Our family culture originating from India has very traditional ethics of how one should live a good clean life. This good clean honest life is what drove the owner to keep up with its roots no matter what happens to the end result this being the sales or financial stability of the company. In the end it all did come together to work out for Polyweld making little profit with the products that are not up to standard but largely not hurting the brand