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book Business Ethics Now 4th Edition by Andrew Ghillyer cover

Business Ethics Now 4th Edition by Andrew Ghillyer

النسخة 4الرقم المعياري الدولي: 9780078023200
book Business Ethics Now 4th Edition by Andrew Ghillyer cover

Business Ethics Now 4th Edition by Andrew Ghillyer

النسخة 4الرقم المعياري الدولي: 9780078023200
تمرين 2
Doing the Right Thing
M egan is a rental agent for the Oxford Lake apartment complex. The work is fairly boring, but she's going to school in the evening, so the quiet periods give her time to catch up on her studies, plus the discounted rent is a great help to her budget. Business has been slow since two other apartment complexes opened up, and Oxford Lake's vacancies are starting to run a little high.
The company recently appointed a new regional director to "inject some energy and creativity" into its local campaigns and generate some new rental leases. Her name is Kate Jones, and based on first impressions, Megan thinks Kate would rent her grandmother an apartment as long as she could raise the rent first.
Kate's first event is an open house, complete with free hot dogs and cokes and a clown making balloon animals for the kids. They run ads in the paper and on the radio and manage to attract a good crowd of people.
Their first applicants are Michael and Tania Wilson, an African-American couple with one young son, Tyler. Megan takes their application. They're a nice couple with a stable work history, more than enough income to cover the rent, and good references from their previous landlord. Megan advises them that they will do a background check as a standard procedure and that things "look very good" for their application.
After they leave, Kate stops by the rental office. "How did that couple look? Any issues with their application?" "None at all," answers Megan. "I think they'll be a perfect addition to our community."
"Don't rush their application through too quickly," replies Kate. "We have time to find some more applicants, and, in my experience, those people usually end up breaking their lease or skipping town with unpaid rent."
How would you resolve this ethical dilemma? Review the three-step process on page 9 for more details.
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Resolving Ethical dilemma
Ethical dilemma is situation in which there is no obvious wrong or right decision but rather only right answer. There is three step processes in resolving the ethical dilemma:
• Analyzes the consequences: analyze benefits and harm can take place with your actions
• Analyze the actions: measure actions against honesty, fairness and equality. Consider the options that are least problematic.
• Make a decision: analyze both parts into account to make a decision.
In this case study, K appointed as a new regional director and M is working as a rental agent. The first event of K is to find good crowd for the open house. When M bought an application of African and American couple with good financial stability to rent the house, K asks M to put it on hold. K thinks that such couple would break lease with unpaid rent according to her experience.
M finds ethical dilemma to put the application in hold as she thinks that it is a very good application. M can resolve her ethical dilemma following the three step process.
• Analyze the consequences: M should analyze what harm and benefits can happen if the application is put on hold. If they are not right people then it can harm the house owner with unpaid rent and benefit the fraudulent. If they are right fit and application is not considered, that couple can still have other options.
• Analyze the actions: Waiting for more applications to find the right fit is least problematic.
• Make a decision: So, M can wait for more applications to confirm that these couple is good fit of the choice.
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