Ethics Dilemma Vignettes Team Exercise 2.4 Page 49

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Ethics Dilemma Vignettes Team Exercise 2.4 page 49 Our group read each of the presented cases and discussed the extent to which the company’s action was either ethical or not. We use ethics principles and perceived moral intensity to justify our evaluation of each case. In case one, an employee blogged about negative claims against his employer that was negatively affected the employee’s career. In turn, cost the employee his job because the employer found the blog. We believe that both the employee and the employer were unethical in this case because it illustrates a degree of moral intensity. The employee had a due diligence to the employer and should have brought his concerns to higher management instead of blogging it on a low profile under a false name. The employer had a due diligence to the employee and should have expressed their concern to the employee. The employer could of asked the employee if he could have deleted the blog or edit it so that the name of the employer was not mentioned. The degree of harm that could have happened to the company was not justified because when a search was made in an Internet search and the blog was not easily accessible in the public domain and this does not give the employer the just cause for termination of the employee. In case two, the manufacturer was encoding its ink cartridges so that they could not be sold in other regions. This demonstrates that the manufacturer did not apply the principles of utilitarianism in making the decision of coding their ink cartridges. We believe that this decision was unethical because this limits the customer on where they could shop for their ink cartridges and coerces the customer to spend more because of the region that they live in. This case is of high moral intensity because of this restriction. This clearly shows that the manufacturer is only thinking of its profits

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