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Introduction of the Ethical Issues

Category: Social Sciences Paper Type: Report Writing Reference: APA Words: 550

In our daily life, we face several ethical issues where we are given only two options to select. Usually, negative and wrong choices seem easier and more profitable but the right options stand for ethical decisions. In general, the codes which have the capability to regulate our life and behaviours are ethics and social norms (Clarkson, Miller, & Cross, 2010). Individuals take the decision in accordance with their preferences whether they prefer to have a profit or want to follow up ethical values. Some major supports of ethical decisions are trust and integrity. In this present work, a case is analyzed in detail to find out ethical issues, unethical concerns, and various theories about ethics at the workplace. Present work will also explain business ethics and whistleblowing strategy in the workplace.       

Case Study Analysis of the Ethical Issues

In this main section case study of Michael's boss, unethical action is discussed and analyzed in detail. The case study analysis section will provide information about ethical theories to prove unethical behaviour of Michael's boss and suggested course of action for Michael regarding this unethical action.   

1.      Ethical Issues

According to the case study, Michael was given information about the competitor company to develop plans for the introduction, business and pricing strategy of the new product. Information was consist of private and confidential information of competitor regarding their offered product and services along with details about the consumer market. However, Michael considered it an unethical act as information was obtained from the illegal method of stealing directly from the hacked system of the competitor. According to the case study information, boss accepted that he hacked and got access to the computer system of competitor companies to collect all interesting and important information about competitor companies. In the business environment, companies develop strategies in light of market research and save consumer data for future analysis. Such private and sensitive data are usually stored in secured databases to avoid data breaches and other issues in advance. Getting access to that particular data is restricted to other external stakeholders and competitor companies. Here, in this case, the motive of stealing was to harm competitor, company by following the same audience or targeted market with similar pricing strategies business operations related plans. Boss was eager to use that information to produce a new and similar product with the aim to win the market before the introduction of that products from the competitor companies. Such unethical action would save the cost of research and development and the company would perform effectively with the competitor’s company. Competitor intelligence spying is known as unethical business behaviour in all over the world. Confidential and private information of competitors operations can be used to build competitive advance in Michael's box company. Misuse of information and taking benefits of this information are also unethical for Michael. Conclusively it can be said that information extraction source of Michael’s boss was wrong and unethical thus the whole action and benefits associated with their illegal and unethical action are totally unethical.   

References of Ethical Issues

Clarkson, K. W., Miller, R. L., & Cross, F. B. (2010). Business Law: Text and Cases: Legal, Ethical, Global, and Corporate Environment. Cengage Learning. 

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