the introduction, there are a number of legal and ethical issues that abound in the case study. One of the first is the way in which Pharmacare created the wholly owned subsidiary Compcare as a means to bypass scrutiny from the Food and Drug Administration. These barriers and milestones are in place for a reason and Pharmacare is unethical at least and lawless at worst for using a shell company to do their dirty work. However, that part of the overall process with AD23 was just the first way in which they used a secondary company to… Continue Reading...
2015).
2. Distinguish between ethical and legal issues
The difference between legal and ethical issues in regard to business application is that legislations do not always take into consideration ethical circumstances encountered by companies. Notably, ethical standards are centered on an individual’s belief of what is right and what is wrong versus the legal benchmark, which is basically, what is written down in law. In essence, ethics can be delineated as the moral principles and criteria that direct what people ought to do and ought not to do. Chiefly, the law orders what persons can and cannot do. In a simple… Continue Reading...
to Miller and Hollowell (2016), “the emergence of Facebook and other social networking sites has created a number of legal and ethical issues for businesses” (p. 98). In the recent past, there have been instances of people being fired because of posts or utterances made on their social media accounts. This is more so the case given that the line between professional life and personal life is increasingly being blurred, thanks to the prevalence of social media. One such instance involved Ashley Payne.
Summary of the Case
Payne, a high school teacher, was forced to resign from her teaching position after a parent complained of a picture she had… Continue Reading...
