Values and Ethical Decision Making
The company that I chose to compare to my Ethics Awareness Inventory Scoring Summary is Pfizer. Pfizer is a multination pharmaceutical company; they develop and produce medicines and vaccines for a wide range of conditions. Pfizer is a company had an annual income of 67 Billion dollars last year (P., 2012). Some of the popular products that Pfizer makes are Advil, Celebrex, Viagra and Lipitor. The reason I chose Pfizer is because I have always been interested in the company because it is their moral obligation to serve the people of the world community with pharmaceutical goods for the betterment of the life of the community. I will first talk about my Ethics Awareness Inventory Scoring. The ethical profile states that I am most closely aligned with Obligation. On the other hand, I am least closely aligned with equity. According to the Williams Institute for Ethics and Management obligation is; [ethical decisions are made based on responsibility and loyalty. Moral decisions are based on standards set during upbringing, in the workplace, and in society. Individuals such as me whom fit into this perspective focus on each the intent instead of results. Important principals for this perspective include: respect, human dignity, and individual freedom. This perspective stresses the importance of treating everyone like a human being instead of a means to accomplish a given task.](Pfizer, 2011) I believe that this fits me the best because my decisions are based on how my upbringing. My parents and friends showed me what was ethical and what wasn’t. I build my ethical decisions on what I was taught was ethical and on. I believe in treating everyone like a human instead of basing my decisions on the task at hand. I believe that Pfizer is aligned in this by being a pharmaceutical company their core value or vision is “At Pfizer, we're inspired by a single goal: your health. That's why we're