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Family Business

This case study is a perfect example of one of those situations we are sometimes faced with in life, when we have to decide whether to make an ethical, but unhealthy decision in terms of its consequences, or an unethical one, but one that is deemed to bring some profits. Like Machiavelli said, "the goal justifies the means," but does it?

The case study is rather simple and involves two categories of stakeholders, the employee and the employer. This is the most usual conflict situation that we may have at the workplace. Jane has been recently hired as the head of the payroll department within R&S Electronics Service Company by the General Manager, Eddie. Her attributions were clear, among them the most important being "strict confidentiality regarding employee salaries and pay scales." As she begins her work within the firm, she notices that Greg, Eddie's brother, makes high commissions from his job as a technician, but has no reason to question this, as Greg was highly recommended by Brad himself, the owner of the company.

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The ethical issue arises upon entering Eddie's office and seeing that he is giving Greg a separate stack of work tickets, which would deem him a higher commission than the others. The rule was that every worker would pick randomly a ticket from the stack, but Eddie has chosen to discard this rule and provide his brother with the higher paid jobs. Jane is facing a pure nepotism situation (not to mention its legality) and has to decide whether to blow the whistle on Eddie by telling Brad. However, she has been threatened to be fired and, seeing that this is her first job since college, the stakes are rather high. Additionally, Brad, Greg and Eddie seem to be in a close relationship, with frequent lunches together and she cannot know whether she would be believed or how Brad would react.

Referring to Machiavelli's quote I have written in the first paragraph, Jane has two choices.

The first one would be to go with the quote and see that the goal justifies the….....

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