What are the ethical issues? People argue that the ethical issues can be found in the books and cannot be applied in the real life. This is an example of such situation. Bob, who works at the White lumber company gets an order from Bob. Who is one of the important and a loyal customer for the company? They enquire for 600 pieces of 3*12 inches of wood. Which seems like an order for the scaffold plank wood, which is used for supporting buildings. A scaffold plank is deeply inspected and certified to specific standards to guarantee its strength. Bob then calls Stan and gets notified that the lumber order will be used as scaffold plank. He feels that the company’s reputation will be lowered when any accident happens to the end consumer, when he uses their product behalf of scaffold.
What are the possible alternatives and the ethics of these alternatives? Bob may refrain himself from signing the purchase order from Quality , he doesn’t want to cheat his customers by …show more content…
The first one is that he can sign the order and sell the product assuming that since their quality is better the chances of any accidents are low. Second one is if he does not sell them, someone from his company will sell the product or some other company will sell it to them, and their plank will be an inch lesser than what the White lumber company is offering. The probability of an accident will increase. Since there is a scarcity of scaffold plank in the market. Since the company is low on profits for the current month, accepting the order will maintain a good financial position for the company. The third option is Bob can stay with his beliefs and not fulfill the order, which might result in Bob losing his job. But the Quality lumber will get the lumber from some other company, and there is a chance that they might share their experience with White Lumber Company which might lower their reputation even further. If the lumber they
What are the possible alternatives and the ethics of these alternatives? Bob may refrain himself from signing the purchase order from Quality , he doesn’t want to cheat his customers by …show more content…
The first one is that he can sign the order and sell the product assuming that since their quality is better the chances of any accidents are low. Second one is if he does not sell them, someone from his company will sell the product or some other company will sell it to them, and their plank will be an inch lesser than what the White lumber company is offering. The probability of an accident will increase. Since there is a scarcity of scaffold plank in the market. Since the company is low on profits for the current month, accepting the order will maintain a good financial position for the company. The third option is Bob can stay with his beliefs and not fulfill the order, which might result in Bob losing his job. But the Quality lumber will get the lumber from some other company, and there is a chance that they might share their experience with White Lumber Company which might lower their reputation even further. If the lumber they