TUI UNIVERSITY Module 2 Case Assignment ETH501 – Business Ethics Introduction The sole remaining supplier case presents a dilemma that can be examined using utilitarian ethics. The core issue is if the transistor company should sell transistors to the pacemaker company. To demonstrate that the ethical answer is yes, three tools will be used to analyze the issue. First, the question will be examined from Jeremy Bentham’s perspective. Second, the utility test will be applied to determine what action will result in the best outcome for all affected.
Crescordia should choose to sit out on the alleged revolution because it maintains their reputation as a quality manufacturer and improvements on resorbable products cannot be made until surgeons test these tools on actual patients. Crescordia would have to invest large amounts of capital in order to develop and produce resorbable devices on a large scale. Releasing a faulty product could bring about lawsuits against the company, which would only add to the costs of launching this new line of products. Crescordia’s CFO, Calvin Westbrook, pointed out that margins will not be significant because retooling resorbables will be a huge capital expense. The legal implications of targeting specific groups are evident, especially with kids and elders as legal counsel, Sam Maddox stated.
It was a minor flaw that doctors were not involved in the initial trials to point out some critical design flaws. It is important to have proper market research by talking to customers or the end user before continuing on. This happened to turn out alright though since Newland was forced to have several suppliers where quality could be monitored more closely. Although quality was improved, manufacturing lead time was reduced in order to coordinate several different suppliers.. Newland was debating whether to focus on improving manufacturing capacity, which would boost appeal as an acquisition for potential buyers. I would recommend that they do pursue investing in manufacturing to help sell their product since their original strategy was to have the company acquired from outside investors.
Ethical Dilemma The major ethical dilemma for the drug Zmapp is that the World Health Organization is debating on whether to let some participants be placed in a control group that receives only standard symptomatic treatment, despite a mortality rate of around 70%. The other participants would be getting the new drug and possible getting better. This is a major ethical dilemma, whether to let a lot of people die because you did not give them the drug, or give everyone the drug and hope that it cures them and not kill them because of side effects. (Hayden 2014) “These trials will be conducted in a context of fear, distrust, a lack of effective care options, the admission of multiple family members to the same center, and sometimes violence against health-care workers,” says Peter Horby, an epidemiologist at the University of Oxford, UK. “Scientific arguments cannot tell us what will work in these conditions.” It is a hard decision to make and the United States thinks that every patient should receive the experimental treatment no matter if it’s not any better than standardized treatment.
Executive Summary To: Purchasing Manager, Fisher & Paykel Limited From: Alan Day, Fisher & Paykel Limited Subject: Solutions to Shortages of Evaporator Pad Covers Issue: As you know, the shortages of evaporator pad covers from the local supplier, Walton, threatened extremely to close down the refrigerator assembly line which led to longer lead time for customers and to affect the cost. The potential risks would make Fisher & Paykel Limited (F&P) lose the leading position if the issues had no changes. I have analyzed the work done thus and would like to propose the following as our new Problem Statement for this requirement. “How can F&P find the workable and cost-effective solutions to solve the supply problems of evaporator pad covers to increase customer satisfaction and to make profit?” We considered various other options to conclude this assignment, as follows: * Labelling on the bins with color or color code was the immediate powerful solution to increase the productivity at Walton. * Procurement and outsourcing pad covers * Hold 2 days Safety Stock at Walton by using VMI method * Reengineering to standardize the cover blanks with the same size.
Although, what about the patients’ right to know their health conditions? There are many conflicts to bioethics principles, but discarding the embryos and hiding health information from the patient are two important moral issues. Even though embryo research can treat medical diseases, discarding infected or unused embryos raises ethical dilemmas. Discarding embryos, freezing them and allowing them to die are against the bioethics beneficence principle, which means act in a way so that the results are the best and the least harm(p. 202). In the case study 1 ”Controversial Transplant a Success,” Steve Karnowski writes about the case of a 6 year old girl, Molly, who suffered from a genetic disorder that is seldom seen, called Fanconi anemia, which interrupts the body from manufacturing bone marrow and that would lead to her death.
It was discovered that Mellon-Stuart had used common planking instead of higher quality scaffold planking in the project. On the other hand, if the whole class seems too willing to refuse to sign the purchase order without facing the seriousness of the consequences, keep pressing them to see how far they could follow up on ensuring worker safety. Are we responsible for
Markinson states that Santiago should be transferred for safety reasons, but Jessup says that this could cost lives. Jessup also states that the officers have a duty to ensure that all personnel are well-trained, so he orders Kendrick to see that Santiago shows improvement on the next evaluation, or he would be held responsible. Kaffee initially tries to step down as lead counsel for the defense. His argument being that since he cannot prove that any order was given for the assault, making a legal stand simply because he believes the Marines did as they were told was a foolish act. He soon changes his mind though after Dawson and Downey say they were ordered by Lieutenant Kendrick, under the orders of Jessup, to shave Santiago's head just minutes after Kendrick ordered the platoon not to touch Santiago.
Finally, there is a dangerous lack of oversight by FDA regulators into the safety violations of companies such as Chemins leading to a reduced rate of public health and safety. Display: There are a number of options available to the Chemins company to deal with the ethical issue of mislabeled products. One is for the company to submit to mandatory testing of their products in order to ensure that what is on the label is what the product actually contains. This testing can be performed at the expense of either the company or the government, though this author believes it is the job of a company to own the regulatory compliance expense of ensuring its products are safe for
This is another example of how businesses will follow up with the decisions and use critical thinking to try and foresee any issues that may arise. While optimism tends to sugarcoat problems and critical details are glanced over, pessimism brings out those issues but could be to downbeat and make it seem as there is not a solution to a problem. Realism would be the neutral, more scientific objective. A company has decided that it wants to build two new stores in six months. If thinking pessimistically about it, the stores would probably never get built because the issues would be so abundant that the plans would never be finalized.