You are an outside director of Crowler Inc., a manufacturer of kitchen and bathroom fixtures such as faucets, shower heads, and shower doors. Crowler has 29,000 employees worldwide, including 18,000 manufacturing employees in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Its headquarters is in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. The CEO has proposed that Crowler increase its manufacturing capacity by adding a large facility to manufacture kitchen faucets, thereby increasing manufacturing employment by 3,000 workers. The board of directors is considering whether Crowler should expand its manufacturing facility in Brownsville, Texas, open a new factory in Indonesia, or close the Brownsville facility and move its current operations and the new operations to Indonesia. Using the Guidelines for Ethical Decision Making, what do you want to know before you make a decision?