Hobby Lobby Ethical Dilemma Paper

Thank you for the recent promotion to the managerial position within this company. My job now is to oversee 50 factory workers. After the first day on the job I discovered that the workers were working past their 8-hour shift. I would like to have a meeting with you regarding this current situation. I recently spoke with the factory supervisor to express my concern, because I know this company does not have the funds to pay every worker for overtime. He explained to me that we are “inviting” workers to work past their shift, which is illegal. If someone were to find out about this current situation, it would put our company in a bind as well as in our credibility.
Objective
I believe our highest objective in business is to make a profit. We can achieve this goal by the use of good ethics. Due to my past experience working in product design I know the owners of Hobby Lobby are professing Christin’s and have their own ethical standards. Hobby Lobby is a well-known company which gives us a great opportunity to get exposure from new businesses. This exposure could bring us more profit. Because we do supply to Hobby Lobby, it is very crucial we keep a good relationship between our company and theirs for outside exposure. Our goals are to stop this illegal practice immediately, get our workload balanced out, or get the necessary products that would help us
This will benefit our reputation since we would not be using bad ethics. Even though this is a risk to our partnership with Hobby Lobby, I believe it will show our current customers as well as our future customers that even though we do not use the best products available it would still show that we would do whatever it takes to keep their business. This would also show Hobby Lobby’s outside companies we are a business that gets the job done no matter the difficulty of any situations we run