Discussion 1 Chapter 1

Please read Opening DecisionPoint: Selling Less Meat. Page2

Provide insights on the following questions/requirements.

Do Companies have a social obligation to try to sell less meat?

Explain why. (3-5 sentences only)

Yes. Companies have social obligation to try to sell less meat. When companies serves less meat,
it is good for environment and the person's health. I know that the present and future generation
businesses have adapted to changing values. The company can help others with no cost. It's
obligation of the company to be a socially responsible but don't forget that company have also
obligation to continue making a profit for their shareholders. I conclude that no one is being
forced into anything, it is the matter of their choice.

Discussion 2 Chapter 2

Read Opening Decision Point: What would you do? page 46

Provide insights on the following question(s)/requirement(s).

1. What would you do on the three different scenarios?

a. You as the first person to find the iPod and nobody knows the incident.

b. You as a friend who were asked for an advice on the incident.

c. You as a student representative who will decide towards the student whom accused of
stealing the iPod.

If I am the first person to find the iPod, I will bring it back to the owner. I will look whos the
owner of the iPod or surrender to the Lost and Found of school. There are so many reasons
why you shouldnt keep that iPod. One reason is, we know that the cost of iPod is not
inexpensive. No one will just put it there and just give it away. Im sure that the owner of that
iPod works hard to buy the thing or if he/she is a student the parents of the student worked hard
just to earn money and buy iPod. The most important reason is, its not yours. Whatever you do;
to keep or to surrender, will reflect you as a person. If you want to have a peaceful life, bring it
back to the owner. And one more thing, stealing is a crime.

In the second scenario, if I as a friend who was asked for an advice on the incident. I will tell my
friend to surrender it to the owner. As Ive said earlier, iPod is not cheap. Its not just a candy. I
will tell to my friend that keeping a thing that is not yours is unlawful and against the will of
God.

In the third scenario, I as a student representative who will decide towards the student whom
accused of stealing the iPod. I will try hard to find and determine the facts or to what really
happened. Unintentionally or not. If it is intentional, I will decide the best punishment to the
student.

Discussion 3 Chapter 3

Read Opening Decision Point: Executive Compensation: Needed Incentives, Justly Deserved,
or Just Distasteful? Page 102-103

Provide insights on the following question(s)/requirement(s).

1. Is executive compensation purely a private matter between an employer and employee, or

should it be a matter of public concern and government policy?

2. Explain your answer. (2-3 sentences only)

It should be a matter of public concern and government policy. Executive compensation is very
important issue for investors in considering when they are making decision. The process should
be more transparent. So that, every people know the financial compensation and other non-
financial that is receive by an executive from their frim like salary, bonuses, shares and etc.

Discussion 4 Chapter 4

Read Opening Decision Point: Creating an Ethics Program, page 148

Provide insights on the following question(s)/requirement(s).

1. If youre the human resource person, how will you answer the CEO's questions about her own
role in promoting ethics?
Human resource person are responsible in planning, directing and coordinating the
administrative functions of an organization. They must help the organization to ensure that ethics
is a top priority of an organization. To answer the question, how human resource personnel
promote ethics. One thing is human resource personnel should explore the problems or pressures
in the environment that leads to the employees improper behavior and bad decisions. They
should be the one who knows and concerned about the end results and consequences that an
organization will take.

Discussion 5 Chapter 5

Read Opening Decision Point: Walmart's Ethics, pages 212-215

Provide insights on the following question(s)/requirement(s).

1. Does Walmart acted unethically?

2. Explain your answer.

Yes, Walmart acted unethically. Walmart has acted unethically in the way they treat their
employees. First unethical behavior towards their employee. Employees start out at lower wages
than union corporations and they ended up quitting by the end of the first year. Walmart is a non-
union organization. They are supposed to pay employees for every minute they work. Second is
Walmart is wrong by bribing their employees just to report on co-workers who favored a union.
It encourages wrong behavior. Third is Walmart was requiring their employees to work overtime
without pay and to work off-the clock. Last is Walmart has been discriminating against women.
Only small amount of the employees of women are in higher position but more than that is in
low position than men. Men are paid more than women. Walmart failed to provide equal
employment for women and thats very unethical. These are some of the unethical business
practices that hurt the Walmart reputation.