Case Study - An Ethical Dilemma
Business Ethics 210
Prof. Bryan Mecklenburg
Coltin Borthwick
Case Study – An Ethical Dilemma
Issue/Problem Identification
Keys points of the case:
Jackie, a young star with a prominent voice who gets picked up by a professional recording label after performing at a national talent competition.
Overwhelmed with excitement, thinks it is a dream come true to start a career with a lucrative contract.
Meets and has an intimate encounter with her soon to be manager, Kevin.
Months go by as their relationship begins to flourish but soon she starts to hear rumors that Kevin has helped a new girl in the legal department get her position threw their own personal relations. Jackie has suspicions that Kevin may be having other deeper interactions with this new girl.
Jackie’s suspicions turn out to be true and she is devastated.
She obviously breaks off the relationship with Kevin but cannot afford to lose him as her manager.
Time goes by with awkward silence between the two but eventually Jackie decides to be professional with her career and continues to keep Kevin on as her manager. This lasts awhile until Kevin starts to make inappropriate sexual advances towards her.
She tries to laugh it off but as he continues she threatens to make a formal complaint to legal.
He does eventually stop but has stopped all efforts to promote her music thus making it very difficult for her to continue on with her success.
She eventually does decide to make a complaint with legal, there is where she runs into Leslie, the girl that Kevin had got the position for in legal.
She tells her, “even I believed you, you didn’t report this relationship which goes against our superior-employee ethics code”. So either she had the choice to let the matter go or to make a complaint which would in turn have her also reprimanded.
She is forced with an ultimate decision and eventually decides to do
Prof. Bryan Mecklenburg
Coltin Borthwick
Case Study – An Ethical Dilemma
Issue/Problem Identification
Keys points of the case:
Jackie, a young star with a prominent voice who gets picked up by a professional recording label after performing at a national talent competition.
Overwhelmed with excitement, thinks it is a dream come true to start a career with a lucrative contract.
Meets and has an intimate encounter with her soon to be manager, Kevin.
Months go by as their relationship begins to flourish but soon she starts to hear rumors that Kevin has helped a new girl in the legal department get her position threw their own personal relations. Jackie has suspicions that Kevin may be having other deeper interactions with this new girl.
Jackie’s suspicions turn out to be true and she is devastated.
She obviously breaks off the relationship with Kevin but cannot afford to lose him as her manager.
Time goes by with awkward silence between the two but eventually Jackie decides to be professional with her career and continues to keep Kevin on as her manager. This lasts awhile until Kevin starts to make inappropriate sexual advances towards her.
She tries to laugh it off but as he continues she threatens to make a formal complaint to legal.
He does eventually stop but has stopped all efforts to promote her music thus making it very difficult for her to continue on with her success.
She eventually does decide to make a complaint with legal, there is where she runs into Leslie, the girl that Kevin had got the position for in legal.
She tells her, “even I believed you, you didn’t report this relationship which goes against our superior-employee ethics code”. So either she had the choice to let the matter go or to make a complaint which would in turn have her also reprimanded.
She is forced with an ultimate decision and eventually decides to do
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