Ethical Decision-Making in Business: The Case of Just Job Company

The report concludes that Just Job Company has experienced significant unethical issues due to partners' decisions involving personal withdrawals of company funds. These actions have negatively affected the brand image, reputation, and overall business performance. The decision-making process was critiqued for its lack of transparency and insufficient stakeholder involvement. To overcome such dilemmas in the future, it is recommended that decisions be made collectively with thorough consideration and open communication. Strategies like establishing a transparent corporate governance structure and fostering an ethical organizational culture are suggested to prevent similar issues.

Case study report - Ethics and Decision Making

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................2
1. Identifying the Ethical Issues..................................................................................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
2. Ethical approaches that can be used to address ethical issues................................................4
TASK 3 ..........................................................................................................................................6
3. Strategy Framework in order to arrive at the best final resolution for the ethical issues........6
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................7
4. The methods of decision making that will be discard by manager.........................................7
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
The organisation is required to act ethically as this act will help business entity in
achieving success and fostering growth. It is essential for company to address when the have to
make ethical decision and required to face ethical issues. The manager in an enterprise is
required to formulate effective strategies as this will aid firm in dealing with the complex and
critical situations. The moral sensitivity is defined as the level of awareness about the ethical
issues in various situation .Organisation in order to act morally should have potential to make
some sort of determination and interpretation of conditions in context of tactics that can be
adopted in order to deal or respond to uncertain situations.
The project has focus on identifying the ethical issues or challenges faced by Just Jobs
company. Study will highlight the major ethical approaches that can be adopted by cited venture
in order to identify the ethical issues.
TASK 1
1. Identifying the Ethical Issues
The given case study is centred around the utilisation of financial resources and
distribution of profit among partners in the newly established company. As in the given case the
partners has decided to take only small portion of profits for personal use. Bills wife has been
diagnosed with uncommon condition that will require amount of 2,00,000 $ for medical
treatment. This is the reason for which the Bill has to withdraw large amount of money from the
capital and has to face conflicts with other partners. Ethical issues are defined as the specific
situation in which manager in the organisation has to select the appropriate strategy or other
alternative from the several options that can measured as right or wrong. The objective of the
cited venture is to provide maximum benefit to the stakeholders and expand its core business
activities. This purpose is not suitable with the present situation where the partners are facing the
financial issues in their personal life and has not been able to fulfil their essential requirement for
which they have to withdraw large amount of money from the capital of business . This factor
has great effect on the success and growth of the cited venture. It has lead to the decrease in
profitability of organisation and has lead to the conflict between partners. This situation has
occurred due to the Just Jobs management decision to take high investment risk in order to
provide maximum benefit to the shareholder. The market reaction has proved that the manager
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decision is wrong and it is the unethical behaviour of organisation. This factor has great and
direct impact on customer value which has further lead to the dissatisfaction among the clients
and shareholders .The effect of this situation can be analysed through evaluating business
performance (Neal, Pearlman, White and Hwang, 2018.)
At the initial start up of business, during the pre financial stage , generating the public
awareness and corned about the effect of corporate action has occurred. Concerns about Local
employment and renewable energy have always been the major and signifiacnt issues.
In the next phase, of business life cycle, the organisation has to face the legal obligation
due to the failure to comply with the laws formulated by the government. This factor has great
impact on the operational activities by cited venture. The companies Act also has adverse effect
on the employer and employee relationship. The other problem that has been faced by the
organisation due to this factor is high employee turnover rate. This situation has occurred due to
the increase in dissatisfaction among workers (Rothman, 2017)
As the Just Jobs is newly established company operating in dynamic business
environment, the economic forces in external environment has direct effect on the firm
profitability and sales. The just Jobs taking high initiative to sustain in highly competitive
environment. The company in order to become more competitive pressuring the others to
capitalize on their reputation and issue more shares with the commitment of providing high
shareholder value to have the capital to accelerate their expansion plans.
This factors have great impact on the sales and profitability of firm. Legal issues has
direct effect on the growth and success of cited venture. Business entity has to face various
conflict that has lead to increase in economic and social pressures. This situation has occurred
due to the wrong decision taken by the one of the partner. It has great impact on the business
operations of Just jobs company. This factor has influence on the decisions of the manager and
various partners within an enterprise. The business entity has to face these ethical issues as its
directors and manager has failed to determine or interpret the challenges or uncertainties that are
associated with investment. They have not developed the effective strategies and policies in
order to deal with such challenges.The lack of sufficient amount of resources and capital to fulfil
the requirement of business operation has direct impact on the quality of product. This factors
have great impact on companies brand Image and reputation of organisation. It also has adverse
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influence on consumer buying behaviour. The increase in the withdrawal of capital by partners
for personal use has great effect on the business performance and financial stability.
(Meisenbach, 2018.)This factor has great impact on the expansion strategy by firm.
In addition to this the other that are faced by the Just Job companies are increase in
pricing and financial pressure, the company has to face conflicts with workers related to wages
or salaries and pensions. As enterprise has fail to meet the requirement of its workforce. The
employees were demanding for greater comfort at workplace and increase in environmental
responsibility, strict regulatory norms related to safety and emission coupled with market
demands for improving business performance. Among all the issues or challenges the major
problem faced by cited venture is continue series of financial engineering failure and financial
issues. As in such situation, the business manager and technical department or engineer find
difficult to maintain balance between all these expectations (Gale, Hyde and Modi, 2017)
At the societal level organisations that interpret regulation as unwelcome requirement
rather than general responsibility may built situations where cheating is considered as ultimate
solution to business problem. But the adverse outcome of discovery threaten the organisation
relationship with every stakeholder impacted by the issue, affecting the business in such a way
that would be difficult to anticipate and avoid. It is very essential for manager in Just Job to
focus on these issues. As this factor has great effect on the organisation sales and profitability.
In context of Just Job the one of the partner has decided to facilitate unethical conduct
knowingly that this factor may have adverse effect on the brand image and reputation of the
company. The cited venture has facing issue to resolve the ethical problems due to stiff
government regulations. The cited venture is required to focus on customer satisfaction and on
social welfare. AS this will assist firm in redeveloping brand image and gaining customer
loyalty. Due to the conflicts with other partner , Charles who is the Beth brother have to bear
high pressure loan to be paid off. The unethical conduct executed buy him is that he has raise
money through gambling.(Sundberg, Garvare and Nyström, 2017)
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TASK 2
2. Ethical approaches that can be used to address ethical issues
The various approaches that can be adopted by cited venture in order to address or
identify ethical dilemmas is moral sensibility approach.
The procedure that will help cited venture in dealing with the ethical issues are:
1. Collecting the relevant information and facts in order to addressing the ethical issue- It is
required by manager in Just Jobs to analyse the relevance of the facts and figures. They
are required to conduct internal as well as external audit. It is required by the manager or
leader in cited venture to ensure the elimination of assumption and identify the actual
problem.
2. In second phase, it is essential for manager to recognise the stakeholders those who have
been affected by the ethical issues.
3. Next phase, the manager or leader in the organisation is required to consider the ethical
issues or problems involved. It is very important for the management to determine or
analyse the effect of various business problems on the brand image of the company and
its influence on customers.
4. IN the next stage, manager is need to develop their focus on addressing the principles
which are impacted by the ethical issues.
5. Overviewing the business policies, procedure and system and analysing the are which
required to be improved. Developing appropriate strategies and planning suitable tactics
for bringing positive change at workplace. If the strategies and business plans are already
developed then in such case the manager in the cited venture is required to make changes
or amendments in the same as per the demand of situation.
6. Alternative course of actions are to be considered by manager in order to find appropriate
solution to the problem.
7. Implementing plan and course of action in order to solve issues.
Communicating with the external as well as internal stakeholders is the effective tool that
can be adopted by cited venture in order to recognise the unethical issues within an organisation.
It is required by the manager in cited venture to conduct internal as well as external audit as this
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activity will enable firm to address the ethical issues and analyse the appropriate solution to the
problem (Wachs, ed., 2017)
TASK 3
3. Strategy Framework in order to arrive at the best final resolution for the ethical issues
The strategies that can be adopted by cited venture in order to resolve Ethical dilemmas are:
The manager in Just Job company is required to consult business code of ethics for
formal direction. This strategy will assist cited venture in dealing with ethical issues. The code of
business ethics can provide guideline on the basis of which the manager can analyse the
advantages or disadvantages of business decision. It provides clear basis which helps the
manager in ensuring that the decision made is aligned to the ethical commitment.
Sharing the dilemma with the supervisor to take benefits of gaining experience. Discussing about
the situation with other executives will help manager in identifying the appropriate way to
overcome such situations (Rose, Morris, Lobley, Winter and Dicks,2018)
The other strategy is the manager is cited venture is required to develop rules and
regulation for the employees and standards according to which the various activities in the
business would be facilitated. As this activity will assist firm in eliminating the ethical issues.
Providing workplace ethical training to workers or staff members is other strategy that
can be adopted by Cited venture. As this activity or strategy will assist Just Job manager in
ensuring the participation of employees in procedure of resolving ethical dilemmas. In context of
Just Job , it is required by the cited venture to stop the sales of the vehicles that is creating
pollution and have adverse impact on the environment (Castille and Fultz, 2018)
It is required by leader to set the transparent and openly integrated ethical standards for
routine operations. It is essential for business entity to adopt the model of integrity with the
direct reciprocal communication in an enterprise. The manager in the cited venture should
facilitate internal as well as external audit as this will assist business entity in identifying the
appropriate solutions in order to deal with ethical issues. Other strategy is that the organisation
can utilise its resources to recognise or develop the alternative course of action in order to deal
with such situation.
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It is required by manager to formulate effective strategies considering the uncertain
situation that can arise in the future. As this activity will assist organisations in dealing with
complex, critical as well as difficult situations (Stenmark,2017)
TASK 4
4. The methods of decision making that will be discard by manager
The decisions that have adverse effect on moral principles will be discarded by the
manager. Other Judgement that will be discarded by manager or leader in an enterprise are
emotional conclusions. Decision based on assumptions , Self deceptive , unconscious decision
making procedure. As these factors may give rise to ethical issues. It can further lead to situation
of conflicts between employer and employees or among various stakeholder in the organisation.
Self deception leads to the moral implications. It may increase the chances of fade decisions
which can have adverse impact on the employee behaviour at workplace. Ethical fading is
defined as the unconscious, institutive and deceptive procedure which may encourage an
individual to disregard the ethical problems. This situation can further lead to formulation of
decision which can give rise to conflicts with personal as well as profession values and
standards. The manager should ensure the elimination of bias decision. As the irrational or bias
judgement lead to the high risk of disaster and increases the chances of uncertainties. As in the
case of Just Jobs venture has to bear legal obligation and additional cot due to the bias decision
made by its management. The judgement made by the manager has great effect on the reputation
of the company and also on its growth as well as success. It is required by organisation to
develop effective accounting system, As it will assist business entity in monitoring the financial
performance of business and controlling the cash flows. Effective accounting system will also
help firm, in identifying the suitable sources for raising funds to meet business requirement.
When the manager or organisation recognise that it they have facilitated unethical act ,
the firm or manager experience cognitive dissonance. It is the psychological pressure that is
experienced by Just Job when the manager in cited venture has realised that the decision made
by them does not match with the business code or policies. The manager in order to deal with
such situation rationalise their troubling attitude. Moral disengagement assist with cognitive
dissonance (Yam, 2018)
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In case of Just jobs company, the partners should not make individual decision. As it is
partnership firm all the parters are required to make decision by consulting with each other. This
activity will help them in making the appropriate judgement and accomplishing business goals as
well as objectives.
CONCLUSION
The report has concluded that the Just Job company has to face major unethical issues
due to the withdrawal of money by partners for personal use . It has been identified from the
project that if the just jobs company had been open about the ethical issues in the meeting , the
business could have delayed the procedure until the solution has been analysed by the
management team. It has been concluded from the assignment that the decision making
procedure and conclusion drawn by partners have great impact on business performance. It has
great effect on the brand image and reputation of the company. The assignment has highlighted
the decision that the manager in Just job is required to discards in order to eliminate ethical
issues.
The study has provided various strategies that can be adopted by cited venture in order to
overcome ethical dilemmas. It has been recommended to the Just Job that partners in an
enterprise should make decision by consulting with each other. As this activity or strategy will
assist business entity in eliminating uncertain situations. It has been suggested to manager in the
cited venture that he or she should avoid bias decision and make conclusion on the basis of
various considerations.
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