Reference no: EM133039403

What Is Your Ethical Responsibility?

We just learned that the environment and ethics strongly impact the practice of Management.  Read the scenario below and carefully craft your responses. 

Your company has decided to donate to the Together Support (TS) Charity.  TS is a well-known national charity with a large presence in Metro Detroit.  Your organization supports this charity, and top managers have decided to launch a campaign to encourage employees for individual donations.  However, you know that several of the employees on your team cannot afford to make donations due to legitimate financial hardships. 

As part of this campaign, top management will receive reports of individual contributors to see who is and isn't supporting their "very important cause".  

At Monday morning's Manager's meeting, you decide to ask a few of your peers about the request for donations, and here's what you find:

• Kelly - "I'm going to donate, and require my employees to as well. There's no way I want anyone working for me to be on that bad list!"
• Pat - "It sounds like they really want our support, and it's good to donate to those less fortunate, so I think I will contribute. I'll make sure everyone on my team know about it, but will let each employee decide."
• Chris - "I have heard that the TS organization has been filled with corruption, and I don't think it's right to give to them. I will work with my employees to find another charity to support. If anyone from top-management asks me why my employees don't support the TS foundation, I'll show them the information I have. I'll also ask them to support their own!" 

Instructions:

1. In your description of how you would approach this with your team.  Think about the Four Approaches to Resolving Ethical Dilemmas, along with the Levels of Moral Development (Kohlberg), and include both when developing your response.