Four Spheres Of Morality Analysis

The title of this article was called Business Ethics: Four Spheres of Executive Responsibility. This article starts out discussing about making decisions that are easy to make, and then moves on to a decision that is not nearly as easy to make. This decision was about whether to sell new drug called RU 486. The purpose of this drug was an alternative to abortions, it had the ability to cause miscarriages within the first five weeks of pregnancy. However, they faced an ethical dilemma. Whether to sell the drug in countries like China that needed it the most, or to not and keep relations with their partner in good terms to keep their profits high. When faced with dilemmas in situations such as this, it tends to pull in different directions and get caught in the four spheres of morality. The first sphere is called
Being the leader of a company gives you the power to control people lives, and you can make their lives better or worse. A leader is the one who helps keep the company in a good place, attracting workers and customers, so that the company can flourish. The last sphere of morality is “Responsibilities Beyond Firm's Boundaries.” Many companies have ties with other things outside of their own companies, whether it be the government, other countries, and other alliances. Managers have power in their own organization, but they also have influence on other companies as well. There are so many things that go beyond the wall of a company, such as the service they provide or the goods that they produce or sell, that can influence people in their daily life, such as the drug RU 486. This drug had the power to change so many lives, but by selling the drug, so many things can change and result in good or bad for the company even though the drug was to be sold by prescription, if something bad happened because of the drug, it can negatively impact the