Question: Businesses are beleaguered with ethical issues that employees, consumers, shareholders, and decision makers must take into consideration for long term sustainability. Problems surface when a business community is challenged with deciding what is "considered" unethical, what are the potential consequences, and where the fine line lies for the various stakeholder groups involved and affected.
Identify and discuss an ethical issue following the structure provided:
- Provide a history of the ethical issue. Consider the issue from a cross-cultural perspective. (Use research to determine whether leadership and organizational frames have different ethical implications in a global organization. There are many articles in Shoen that address cross-cultural leadership. Look for ways to analyze your selected situation in light of cross-cultural issues identified by your research, and to integrate insights from one or two of those sources with your knowledge of the Frames.)
- State what is unethical about the action (grounding analysis in correctly cited course material and/or other resources.)
- Offer a solution for the concern (grounding analysis in correctly cited course material and/or other resources.)
- This paper is intended to be an in-depth evaluation and discussion of alternative approaches to ethically ambiguous scenarios. It should be researched and will likely be 3,500 words or so in length and should fully discuss the issue and solution from a multi-stakeholder perspective. It should bring in relevant, graduate level sources that are appropriate to the context and guide the way each component of the assignment is addressed.