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You are the manager of a candy factory and are overseeing the loading of 500,000 candy bars into a truck bound for several big box stores across the state. The shipment is running late already and your supervisor is not happy, but you still have not received a quality assurance report for all of the batches. Rather than wait for the quality assurance report, you tell the crew to go ahead and begin loading the delivery truck. Just as the last of the boxes are loaded after three hours of hard work on the part of your employees and yourself (as a leader, of course you assisted), you receive a call from the quality control manager of the chocolate division. The manager tells you that he was late to work today and did not read the quality control reports on this load of candy bars until just now. It appears that over 30% of the candy bars may contain slightly less chocolate than the label reads due to a malfunction in the bar-making machine.

Prompt

As you read through the scenario, what factors did you consider?

What decision did you make?

What ethical considerations impacted that decision?

Who might your decision impact and to what extent? How important were these considerations in determining your decision?

Be sure to include ethical and value theory from your text into your paper and cite properly.