Bmgt 496 week 2 | Operations Management homework help

Reviewing Theory, Rationalizations, Dilemmas and Resolutions

You are an executive with a large pharmaceutical company, W. B. Milestone, Inc., and you have to decide whether to market a product that might have undesirable side effects for a small percentage of users. What is the ethical dilemma and related ethical issue(s) facing the executive? How should you decide whether to sell the product? Specifically, what are the steps you would employ in reaching your decision? How does the theory of ethics that is applied affect your answer? In discussing the theoretical aspect, you must identify and discuss at least 2 relevant theories from this week.

As a part of your deliberative process, you decided to place a call to a trusted colleague in Malaysia, who is the senior vice-president in charge of the Malaysian operations for the Company. During the course of your conversation you were shocked to learn that the Company has hired several hundred workers at wages considerably below their U.S. counterparts, but consistent with the prevailing wages in Malaysia. Not only is the Company benefiting from the lower wages, it is also able to reduce its costs further because of the deplorable factories used for its operations (no air conditioning and poor ventilation), it can dispose of waste without any government oversight, and government inspectors are routinely given gratuities for favorable inspection reports or to otherwise grease the skids for the Company.

These revelations were extremely concerning for you, notwithstanding the fact that the Company’s operations were in all key respects in accordance with the laws of Malaysia. When you voiced these concerns to your colleague, he responded that when operating in another country, “one learns to keep their mouth shut, and when in Rome do as the Romans do.” He further stated that if you really wanted to impress the brass at the Company, you should recommend that the base of operations for the new product be in Malaysia to take advantage of the more relaxed regulatory environment. You ended the conversation by saying you would take all of this under advisement.

Whether or not you decide to recommend marketing the product, and to take your colleague’s advice to base it in Malaysia, do you think this would be a case of ethical relativism? Why or why not?

You must start a thread before you can read and reply to other threads

https://www.thoughtco.com/kantian-ethics-moral-philosophy-immanuel-kant-4045398

https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/07/news/companies/wells-fargo-scandal-two-years/index.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/60-minutes-investigates-high-frequency-trading/

https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/speech-peirce-072418

https://tifwe.org/why-creating-wealth-is-not-exploitative/

Place your order
(550 words)

Approximate price: $22

Calculate the price of your order

550 words
We'll send you the first draft for approval by September 11, 2018 at 10:52 AM
Total price:
$26
The price is based on these factors:
Academic level
Number of pages
Urgency
Basic features
  • Free title page and bibliography
  • Unlimited revisions
  • Plagiarism-free guarantee
  • Money-back guarantee
  • 24/7 support
On-demand options
  • Writer’s samples
  • Part-by-part delivery
  • Overnight delivery
  • Copies of used sources
  • Expert Proofreading
Paper format
  • 275 words per page
  • 12 pt Arial/Times New Roman
  • Double line spacing
  • Any citation style (APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, Harvard)

Our guarantees

Delivering a high-quality product at a reasonable price is not enough anymore.
That’s why we have developed 5 beneficial guarantees that will make your experience with our service enjoyable, easy, and safe.

Money-back guarantee

You have to be 100% sure of the quality of your product to give a money-back guarantee. This describes us perfectly. Make sure that this guarantee is totally transparent.

Read more

Zero-plagiarism guarantee

Each paper is composed from scratch, according to your instructions. It is then checked by our plagiarism-detection software. There is no gap where plagiarism could squeeze in.

Read more

Free-revision policy

Thanks to our free revisions, there is no way for you to be unsatisfied. We will work on your paper until you are completely happy with the result.

Read more

Privacy policy

Your email is safe, as we store it according to international data protection rules. Your bank details are secure, as we use only reliable payment systems.

Read more

Fair-cooperation guarantee

By sending us your money, you buy the service we provide. Check out our terms and conditions if you prefer business talks to be laid out in official language.

Read more