Giving Voice to Value

1. Giving Voice to Value.

The important stakeholders that Ajith need to work with are the Ministry of Health Official Committee, Laurent Pharmaceuticals, his manager, his team of medical doctors, lawyers, embassy officials, and his regional head and global operation management.

The main arguments that Ajith will need to counter are to get approval to register Laurent Pharmaceutical to market the prescription medication in Southeast Asian state of Kamaria. With the help of his team of medical doctors who can treat two major health issues in Kamaria using the prescribed medicine, transforms how quality care is perceived. Poverty should be addressed with his regional head and global operation management of Laurent pharmaceutical. Poverty is major reason, so dealing with poverty maybe the way to lower the cost of medication. Ajith needs to reduce the cost of manufacturing Laurent drugs in the first place. With strong personality integrity and professional and personal pride, Ajith does not want to compromise in the negotiation with health ministry because his product is better than the other competitor providers.

Ajith remained calm even though his manager is pushing him with obstacle of registrations approval. His local management team which is medical doctors could give assurance to health ministry because doctors have reliable information about prescribing drugs and counterfeit drugs. Ajith needs to meet with his lawyer and embassy officers to lobby the health ministry official for his registration application's acceptance.

2. Gentile's giving voice to values

Gentile’s Giving Voice to Values uses an approach to ethics training that most people would like to provide input in times of ethical conflict using their own values. People can see the gap in organizational ethical judgment and behavior, but they do not have the courage to step up and say out loud their values to prevent the wrongdoing. Giving voice to values helps to reassure students and employees to learn how to communicate or take action to express their values within an organization’s formal and informal value system. According to Kidder's cross-cultural survey, "list of five widely shared values: honesty, respect, responsibility, fairness, and compassion"(Cawsey, Deszca, & Ingols, 2016). The first step required participants to articulate their values and the impact of acting on those values (Cawsey, Deszca, & Ingols, 2016).

Giving voice to value provides a gap in business ethic discussions and social responsibility. Most business ethics has the power on deciding what the right things is to do, offering up a philosophical perspective that can lead to making highly contrary decisions on the same issues. Most of us know what we believe in is right. The problem lies in saying it out loud, especially when