Reference no: EM132944574

A woman is sexually harassed by a top-level senior executive in a large company. She sues the company, and during settlement discussions she is offered an extremely large monetary settlement. In the agreement, the woman is required to confirm that the executive did nothing wrong, and after the agreement is signed the woman is prohibited from discussing anything about the incident publicly. Before the date scheduled to sign the settlement agreement, the woman's lawyer mentions that she has heard the executive has done this before, and the settlement amount is very large because the company probably had a legal obligation to dismiss the executive previously. The company however wants to keep the executive because he is a big money maker for the company.

I. Examining this contemporary ethical incident using different ethical theories

1. ?Virtue ethics

2. Feminist ethics

3. Discourse ethics

4. Postmodern ethics

5. ?Egoism

6. ?Utilitarianism

7. ?Ethics of duties

8. ?Ethics of rights

II. Implications of applying these theories to the incident

III. Impact of the consequences of these theories on different groups of stakeholders

1. ?Firm

2. ?Shareholders

3. ?Employees

4. ?Customers

5. ?Suppliers

6. ?Competitors

7. ?Civil society

8. ?Government