2. ETHICAL DILEMMA & ISSUE
Dilemma
• Opening a subsidiary in China
• Minimum wage rate
• Working hours: 10, Days: 6
• Environmental Degradation
• Difference in China’s Ethical norms
Issue
• Substandard working
condition
• Environmental Degradation
• Ethical Relativism
3. VICTIMS AND ALTERNATIVES
Negatively Affected: Labor group
• Minimum wage rate
• Substandard working conditions
• “mandatory overtime”
Alternatives:
• Good: introducing ethical pluralism
• Bad: achieve objective through labor
exploitation
4. LEGAL OR EFFICIENCY
Objective: Lowering manufacturing costs.
Ethically,
• Economic unit
• Generating employment
Legally,
• codifications of society’s moral views
Morally,
• Exploiting labors for firm’s interest.
5. FACTS
• Relevant: Substandard working
condition
• Solution: Hire pressure group
FACTS:
• Violation of moral imagination or
personal integrity
• Acceptance in terms of Chinese
ethical norms
8. EVALUATION OF OPTIONS
• Utilitarian approach
• Rights approach
• Justice approach
• Common Good Approach
• Virtue Approach
Best Approach:
Utilitarian approach
10. RESULTS
• Difference in Business ethics
• Same Personal Ethics
• Standardize Code of conduct
• Corporate responsibility
All crucial for earning a repudiated brand image