Ethic Case

Nowadays, ethical issues are sufficient to occur, so many business members consist of people for diverse culture and dynamic culture. Therefore, ethical issues have become very important in the workplace because it helps workers recognize right and solve the problem when ethical issues arise in businesses. Then, ethics in business will provide the ethics standard, training, sources to get the advice, guide the way to decide in dilemmas situation (Joseph, 2000). Therefore, the Human Resources Managers have to understand and apply the ethical issues in business such areas as transparency in recruitment employees, treating fairly with all employees, allocation of tasks for employees (Florentyna, 2010).

However, it is often very challenging and complex for them to address the ethical issues in an appropriate manner. Therefore, many ethical approaches such as egoism and utilitarianism have been suggested in order to understand how to deal with the issues effectively.

This essay will first discuss on ethical issues based on the case study on the manufacturer.

This is followed by comparing the main characteristics of ethical egoism and utilitarianism.

Finally, I will evaluate the two approaches based on my own experience.

ETHICAL ISSUES

According to the case study, the company can be considered to raise ethical issues in the business.

Firstly, the Human Resources Manager advised that the manaufacturing be close down within a year because the mill was too old and can not meet the company's needs anymore. However, Robert was required by the top manager that the company should not discuss/announce this issue openly for anyone else in the company to avoid industrical action and a community backlash. In my opinion, it can be considered to raise an ethical issue. Because the mill has to announce this possibility for all employees. It will help workers to preparate for the future. In some families, these workers can be bread-winners. Therefore, if they lose the jobs, their families will not have income and it affects the life of workers significantly. Moreover, if they can not afford to earn to cover their life, they are likely to be involved in antisocial behavior such as crime, robberty and so on. It will affect the development of soceity.

Secondly, the manager still hire more employees when they can not secure the jobs for them at the long term.

Thirdly, the company has hired James because he is the most suitable person for the vacancy of manufacturing. The Human Resource Manager just think how to maximize manufacturing's profit and does not care about Jame's current position. If James is retrenched again, he will face enormous problem such as he can not