Clare Bartlett case

At the end of her first day, Sarah is confused to see her factory workers continuing to work well past the end of their 8-hour shift. She then goes to the factory supervisor (who reports to her) to express concern because the factory does not have the budget to pay so many workers overtime. The supervisor smiles at Sarah and explains that the factory meets production goals by making the factory workers work off the clock. The workers are well aware of this expectation and went along with it in order to keep their jobs. Sarah is shocked to learn this illegal practice had become part of the company culture, but the supervisor explains that the company's CEO (who is Sarah's boss) is well aware of this expectation. What should Sarah do?

What theories and practical issues are they designed to develop knowledge about?

Golden Mean:The Golden Mean virtue is defined as the ability to strike a good balance between extremes in behavior, emotion, desire, and attitude. Aristotle's idea suggests that virtues are dispositions to reach the golden mean between extremes of too much and too little in specific elements of our life. Practical knowledge is the most significant virtue since it allows one to discover the mean for all other virtues. Internal goods like products, activities, and experiences should never compete with exterior goods like money, power, self-esteem, and status. Internal goods can be obtained thanks to high standards of quality. When individuals or institutions are very worried about the external goods, they jeopardize the internal goods.

Rights-based Ethical Theory:Human dignity is recognized in its most fundamental form in rights-based ethics. The ethics pertain to fundamental human rights, whether good or bad. Everyone has the right to live, to be free, and to pursue pleasure. Beauchamp and Childress, writers and ethical theorists, describe "right" as a justified claim that people and organizations can make on other individuals or society; to have a right is to be able to judge what others should or should not do based on one's choices. According to natural law, human rules are defined by morality rather than by some authority. This law is based on the concept that human morality is drawn from nature. Any action taken by a person that prevents another creature from enjoying a decent and happy existence is seen as immoral or unnatural. Any legislation should be moral in some way. Moral responsibility is the obligation to act in accordance with one's ethical principles.

Prudence-Prudence argues that every individual has a life that should be respected, and every individual has obligations that must be performed without exception. One should constantly be cautious when carrying out one's responsibilities.

Temperance-Temperance is the voluntary withholding of oneself from the attractions. Temptations that might lead to violations of obligations and ethics must be avoided. False promises are not to be made since they violate the principles of duty.

Fortitude-Tolerance is referred regarded as fortitude. No perfection can be maintained if happiness is the only goal, and no pleasure can be reached if perfection is the only goal. Both may or may not be compatible.

Justice-A free will and a will governed by moral laws are the same thing. We are free only when we behave in line with our finest natures, and we are slaves anytime our desires and wills govern us. Everyone should be free since there is a universally legitimate will.

Utilitarian Ethics

In engineering, a typical cost-benefit analysis examines the positive and negative monetary repercussions of some activity or policy. It compares the results to equivalent tallies of the repercussions of other acts or policies. This supports the concept of weighing advantages against costs.

QUESTION: why do the executives need to know about the these theories/issue for the Clare Bartlett case?