Ethical Issues in Biotech's Shifting of Packaging and Distribution Centers to Iceland

Running head: ICELANDIC FREEZE
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Discussions......................................................................................................................................2
Ethical issue.................................................................................................................................2
Ethical issue in the context of Biotech........................................................................................3
Ethical issue irrelevant to the scenario........................................................................................3
Ethical dilemma...........................................................................................................................4
Ethical relativism and moral universalism..................................................................................4
Ethical relativism and moral universalism in context of Biotech................................................5
References:......................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
The head of Packaging and Distribution at Biotech Health and Life Products, Josh Garett
was examining the costing reports for different branches.Upon examining the cost data, he was
concerned about the increasing costs of unskilled labour at the Germany Branch.Most of them
made minimum wage.The distribution costs between Europe and North America have also
increased recently(Hanhijärvi et al.,2016).The 2016 shipping crisis has facilitated a rise of
shipping costs for all routes in the Atlantic.Josh figured that by shifting the Package and
Distribution division from Germany to Iceland, the production and distribution costs would be
reduced.Iceland is the middle region beween all the shipping routes in the Atlantic. This new
location removed the need to ship long distance hauls(Hanhijärvi et al.,2016).
Discussions
Ethical issue
An ethical issue refers to a problem or a scenario that needs a person or an enterprise to
make a choice among alternatives that may be construed as either right or wrong. Ethics gives a
general sense of guidance about the good aspects that one should aspire to,for both individuals
and the society at large.Our concept of ethics is an amalgamation of culture, religion and
philosophy.. Ethical judgments, on whether actions help or harm, can be classified as right or
wrong based on the assumption that there is some underlying universal or relative moral standard
for making such judgments(Hollingworth & Valentine, 2015)..Examples of ethical issues include
issues bordering on matters of honesty, fairness, justice and confliction of interests(Williamson
et al.,2017).