Corporate Social Responsibility
Chen Xi
Su Wei
Mei Han
Zhao Wei
Wang Mo
Li Yinghan
Tse Lai Sze
Q2. 1. What are the main ethical issues for Professor Ballistico?
Ethics is concerned with the study of morality and the application of reason to elucidate specific rules and principles that determine right and wrong for any given situation. Some of the controversy regarding business ethics is no doubt due to different understandings of what constitutions morality or ethics in the first place. In this case, Ballistico is a professor who is conducting a research and has come to some new findings. According to his professions, he should be honest and objective to his research and it is his responsibility publishes the results as what it originally was to enable the public have a correct understanding of what is happening. It would obey his professional standard if he did not publish the result. However, on the other hand, he was involved in a sponsor plan to fund the center. If he publishes the result, he would surely lose the fund and both his career and family may suffer from the loss. As a result, he is now in a ethical dilemma, facing a situation where values are in conflict.
2. What options are open to him?
Option 1: Publish the result.
If he chooses to publish the result, he may lose the continuous funding and destroy the relationship with the company. However, the beneficiaries would be the public and he in this way sticks to his professions.
Option 2: Not publish the result.
In this option, there are 2 different situations. On one side, he may just simply ignore the research and leave the results out. In this way, the sponsor company would not be hurt by the result he would get the fund as normal. However, it is not following the standard of his profession in the academic field and the public would not benefit from the result.
On the other hand, he may inform the related company of the result and advice to modify their products as soon as possible. Under this
Su Wei
Mei Han
Zhao Wei
Wang Mo
Li Yinghan
Tse Lai Sze
Q2. 1. What are the main ethical issues for Professor Ballistico?
Ethics is concerned with the study of morality and the application of reason to elucidate specific rules and principles that determine right and wrong for any given situation. Some of the controversy regarding business ethics is no doubt due to different understandings of what constitutions morality or ethics in the first place. In this case, Ballistico is a professor who is conducting a research and has come to some new findings. According to his professions, he should be honest and objective to his research and it is his responsibility publishes the results as what it originally was to enable the public have a correct understanding of what is happening. It would obey his professional standard if he did not publish the result. However, on the other hand, he was involved in a sponsor plan to fund the center. If he publishes the result, he would surely lose the fund and both his career and family may suffer from the loss. As a result, he is now in a ethical dilemma, facing a situation where values are in conflict.
2. What options are open to him?
Option 1: Publish the result.
If he chooses to publish the result, he may lose the continuous funding and destroy the relationship with the company. However, the beneficiaries would be the public and he in this way sticks to his professions.
Option 2: Not publish the result.
In this option, there are 2 different situations. On one side, he may just simply ignore the research and leave the results out. In this way, the sponsor company would not be hurt by the result he would get the fund as normal. However, it is not following the standard of his profession in the academic field and the public would not benefit from the result.
On the other hand, he may inform the related company of the result and advice to modify their products as soon as possible. Under this