Please Clearly Identify The Choice Made

Which of these situations demonstrates how companies of strong moral character have pursued ethical strategies?

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Employees at Thinx, a manufacturer of womens absorbent underwear, tolerate harassment, low pay, short maternity leaves, and the high demands of their jobs because they believe that the company is dedicated to a just cause.

Employees at Wayfair, the online home furnishings giant, walk out of the companys Boston headquarters to protest its sale of $200,000 worth of bedroom furniture to a government contractor that operates a network of shelters for migrant children near the southwestern United States border.

McDonalds board of directors dismiss CEO Steve Easterbrook after determining that he had engaged in a relationship that violated company policy prohibiting employees with a direct or indirect reporting relationship from dating or having a sexual relationship.

Quaker Oats management announces the company will retire the Aunt Jemima name and character that had been associated with racial stereotyping after widespread international protests against racism.

Employees at REI, an outdoor recreation equipment retailer and employee-owned cooperative, report on social media that their store managers in Arizona and Texas had not properly informed them about colleagues who had tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

Notions of right and wrong, fair and unfair, moral and immoral, ethical and unethical

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ultimately depend on a persons own values and beliefs.

ultimately depend on the circumstances: nothing is really black or white when it comes to ethical standards.

are governed mainly by religious views held in different geographic regions of the world.

are present in all societies, organizations, and individuals.

vary enormously from country to country across the world.

According to the school of ethical universalism

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what behaviors are ethically right and ethically wrong vary across religions, but the boundaries of what is ethical or not are universal within religions.

concepts of right and wrong universally apply to all business situations within a given country but can vary across countries or cultures.

ethical guidelines exist only when there is universal agreement as to what behaviors are ethically right and ethically wrong; anything not universally viewed as unethical is thus within the bounds of what is ethically permissible.

all societies and countries have some definition of what is ethically permissible (in this sense, ethics are universal); however, the definitions of what is ethically permissible vary according to the prevailing religious doctrines in each country.

many of the same standards of whats ethical and whats unethical resonate with peoples of most societies regardless of local traditions and cultural norms; hence, to the extent there is common moral agreement about right and wrong actions, common ethical standards can be used to judge the conduct of personnel at companies operating in a variety of country markets and cultural circumstances.