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DFB5018 Fundamentals of Business – Trimester 1, 2013/2014 Group Discussion (Chapter 2 – Business Ethics and Social Responsibility) The Dilemma Assume that you are the manager of a restaurant near a major manufacturing plant. Many of your customers are employees at the plant. Due to inflation, you are about to raise your prices 10 to 15%. You have had new menus created and updated your posters. You have been planning to implement the higher prices in about three weeks. You have just heard that another plant owned by the same company has been shut down for two weeks due to an explosion. The plant near you will be expected to make up the slack by asking workers to put in longer hours, adding a new shift, and so forth. You anticipate a substantial jump in your business immediately. You are now trying to make a quick decision about your pricing. One option is to go ahead and roll out your higher prices now. Combined with the big jump in traffic, your profits would skyrocket. The other option is to follow your original timetable and wait three weeks to increase your prices. You will have then passed up the opportunity to capitalise on the temporary jump in business. Questions: 1. Which course of action is easier to defend? Why? 2. What is your opinion about the appropriate stance that a business should take regarding social responsibility? 3. To what extent is the concept of social responsibility relevant to nonbusiness organisations such as universities, government units, health care organization, and so forth? 4. Using newspapers, magazines, or official signboard (snap photos), identify and describe two company/association take a defensive stance to social responsibility, two that take an accommodative stance, and two that take a proactive stance. Instructions:  Submission can be in handwritten OR typewritten.  Each group submits only ONE copy with all members’ name and student ID.  Please indicate your lecture group section.  Submission due date: 1 July 2013