Ethical Factors and Conflicts Affecting Business Ethics

Case study Company X is a family-type company, in which there has never been a code of ethics. Its owner and general manager, Don Mario, has most of his relatives working with him in the company, which is dedicated to the sale of repossessed properties. His employees include Marcos, who to date is his best salesperson. According to Carlos, Mario's nephew, where he lives a rumor that Marcos is homosexual is heard loudly, so Carlos proceeded to tell Don Mario immediately. Don Mario, upon finding out, calls his son Jose, who is the director of Human Resources, to investigate and, if the rumor is true, he will immediately fire him. If the rumor is not proven to be true, he asks you to continue investigating him until further notice. Later in the day, Jose receives a call from another company to check on the performance of an employee named Margarita. Jose understands that Margarita's job is lousy, so they were considering firing her. In order for her to leave without having to go through the process of removing her, this instead provided the company that is possibly interested in hiring her with excellent references from Margarita. On the other hand, Maria is a beautiful 25-year-old single mother with two children; whom her boss Augusto, don Mario's youngest son, asked to go out with her in exchange for the position of supervisor of the office, which would result in an increase of 20% in her salary, and if she refused, she would invent a situation to get fired. After 5 weeks of Augusto, she agrees to insist and call her constantly during and outside of work hours. When she didn't answer, the boss wrote her daily text messages to convince her. Maria, seeing that all her supervisors are relatives of Augusto and being in such a difficult economic condition, decided to accept the invitation for fear of being fired. On the other hand, the only one unfamiliar with a high position in the company is the Sales Manager, Robert. He uses the company car and his driver to pick up his daughter from school and take her to personal activities, when the vehicle is supposed to be for property visitation functions. Additionally, you use entertainment expenses to cover personal expenses and report them as business expenses. Robert does this because he knows that Don Mario, the owner, has an agreement with the accountant Alejandro to deduct 5 3,000.00 from each auction invoice that will not be reflected in the business books, but rather goes directly to Don Mario's personal account. , so nobody will know about this money. From here, $ 500.00 per transaction is returned to the accountant because he is the one who is in charge of "making up" or falsifying the financial statements so that no one can realize it. Of that $ 500.00, Robert receives half in exchange for his silence. 1. What the case presented is about and identify the ethical conflicts it presents. 2. Come up with a possible solution for each conflict or the measures you would suggest to prevent the unethical action from happening 3. What preventive measures would you use to avoid these ethical conflicts in the company? 4. Are the company policies clear? Explain. 5. Recommendations on the subject of the ethical conflicts presented in the case. 6. Explain the factors and conflicts that affect business ethics