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Business Ethics Final Project
Business Ethics Final Project
Business Ethics Final Project
BUSINESS
ETHICS
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Applying Ethical
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Applying Ethical Theories
Utilitarian theory
Utilitarianism has had a broad effect during the previous two centuries, affecting many
among the majority of stakeholders [ CITATION Bri20 \l 2057 ] . The assumption of this theory
is that it relates to the consequence perspective. The hashtag of this theory is “The
To relate and apply this to the WHO case study, an ethical situation will be made. The
ethical situation includes a morale agent, core and series of action, consequences, and
stakeholders. The morale agent is the one who makes the actions in form of decisions,
stakeholders. Applying this to the WHO case study, the morale agent here was WHO
decision maker and he made 6 decisions that included one core and 5 series of actions.
The core decision was Isolation and quarantine followed by a series of decisions that
table will show the ethical situation and the consequences as well as the stakeholders
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Morale Core decision and series Consequences Stakeholders
agent of decisions
Core: Isolation and • Transportation sector – • Community(individuals)
• Prioritizing
healthcare workers
• Providing
vaccination in non-
urgent situations
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This stakeholder map shows the WHO decision and its effect on stakeholders, the short
arrows display the primary stakeholders, and the long arrows shows the secondary
stakeholders.
Finally, the Utilitarianism theory has some challenges, the challenges are that the
theory affects everyone not just a group of people, also its difficult to quantify the
consequence of the decisions, lastly in this theory its end justify the means which is
unacceptable because the mean is not always ethical. Overall, the WHO applied the
utility theory “to the word’’. The result was a draw between the positives and the
negatives which is a good thing considering this is a pandemic that causes a lot of
negatives.
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Deontology theory:
Its name origins from the Greek word deon, meaning duty. Deontology is a type of
ethics that has a defined set of principles, which is why some people refer to it as a
"rule-based ethic"[ CITATION THE16 \l 2057 ]. The following are the two primary categories
of rules used in the deontology theory: legal rules and company’s rules. Legal rules are
a broad area for example the constitution which consists of article the dictate the right
behavior, while the company rules are narrower, they are rules, regulations and policies
which are made by WHO as an institution which decides how to deal with every
While the Covid- 19 pandemic is a new thing to the world and really there were no set of
laws or rules that says what to do in a specific situation, there were laws and rules set
for a global pandemic. When the WHO made their decision, the followed the rule and
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Social justice theory:
In the Utilitarianism the benefit of the majority is the right thing, while in the social justice
theory they care about the minority stakeholders whom have been negatively affected
more. The Covid-19 pandemic affected billions of lives globally so it was nearly
impossible for the WHO to take a decision that benefited the minority more than the
majority, so the WHO did not apply the social justice theory.
evaluate the decisions made by WHO in the case study in order to reach the best
decision that will interrupt the speared of the disease. The first step is identifying the key
facts in the case study, by differentiating between facts and opinions. A list of key facts
is listed as follow:
Key facts
1- The Chinese government sent out a public alert that unknown symptoms had been identified in the city
of Wuhan.
2- The causative organism was identified to be a novel Coronavirus named by COVID-19.
3- The infection has rapidly spread throughout China and reached multiple regions.
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international public health emergency.
6-Isolation and quarantine are the two WHO quickest actions that illustrate the most extreme of state
powers.
7- These actions caused some social and economic consequences.
8- WHO suggested the Remote working as a working style that allows employees to work outside of a
traditional office environment
9- Community Engagement is a clear message which has been sent by WHO to all business organizations
to develop the social pressures and economic depression caused by the pandemic.
10- Resource allocation has been known as one of the most WHO important actions for managing the
pandemic.
11-When a hospital does not have enough staff or equipment to provide support, priority (using scoring
systems) is assigned to patients with the greatest likelihood of benefit from
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STEP 2: Identify the Ethical Issues
Step two is about determining whether the decisions that the WHO made are ethical or
unethical and include some ethical disease such as, normative myopia, Intentional
blindness, and Change blindness. Where the decisions that has ethical diseases in the
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gradual changes over time”)[ CITATION Lur \l 1033 ] the changes in waves of corona that result
different side effects for people therefore this
one type of vaccine will not fit all people. Fact
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positively or negatively from the decisions made by the WHO, also stakeholders could
be Primary who had been affected directly by WHO decisions, or Secondary who had
A: Primary Stakeholders
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A.1 Community: they were negatively affected when the WHO decided to apply
isolation and lock down as some people suffered from depressions and
some families was unable to feed their children because of all work had been
stopped for a period. Although, they get affected by this decision positively where
this lockdown and isolation decreased the probability of getting infected by the
disease.
A.2 Government: they were negatively affected because of lock down and
isolation, all the government interest work had been stopped; more than 60000
collected, the international trade decreased as the import and export stopped.
B: Secondary Stakeholders
B.1 Organizations and Small business: they were negatively affected as their
work and business all around the world stopped as well as all trades.
cut off half of employees as they will not be apple to pay salaries for all
employees. In addition, some employees do not have all the capabilities to work
from home.
B.3 Health sector: the health sector gets affected positively the WHO decisions
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B.4 Transportation: the transportation sector gets affected negatively as people
stopped to use transportation due to decisions of lock down and remote working.
Step four aims to examining the available and alternative decisions that should be
innovative and creative in order to be applied and generate positive and effective
results. The alternatives for the lock down and isolation decisions made by the WHO
are as follow:
1- Creating an application that clarify the health status of the application user,
whether they has infected by corona or not by answering some question and
doing some blood test, if yes they will be isolated and monitoring by the health
sector via this application where this application will follow their movement, and if
they leaved their home for any reason immediate alert will be sent to health
10-15 minutes corona test, every country will be responsible to do a test for the people
for free and report the result for short period. For example, booths that do a quick
corona test will be spread all around the country including ( malls, schools,
organizations, university, government institutions, and streets with free or cheap cost.
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This decision will enable people to early and quickly know if they gets infected or not,
therefore, this will limit the spread of the disease and the number of infected people as
well.
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STEP 5: Evaluating Alternatives
Now coming to weighing the two alternatives that were mentioned in step 4 which are:
These alternatives will be evaluated on how they can harm or benefit the primary and
secondary stakeholders.
Organizations
Alternative Community Government & Employees Healthcare Transport
s Small sector sector
businesses
Har Benefit Harm Benefi Harm Benefi Harm Benefi Harm Benefi Harm Benefit
m t t t t
Mobile
Application
On-Door
15 Minutes
PCR
First, we will evaluate how the mobile application alternative can affect the primary
Community – when the citizen downloads the application onto their phones and decide
to go outside, they will be alerted if they are in an area with people who have logged on
the app that they are infected with COVID-19. The application will automatically request
the healthy citizen to leave the area immediately for their own safety.
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Government – The application will help the government collect data that will help
identify the part of the population that has been exposed to COVID-19. By the help of
this data, they will be able to support and protect their citizens more effectively and
efficiently.
organizations and small businesses were forced to close due to the lack of customers.
According to [ CITATION Mar20 \l 1033 ] the highest business sector affected by the
pandemic was the travel and tourism sector by 54%. However, with the help of the
Employees – Unemployment was one of the major issues people faced worldwide
when the pandemic hit. As stated in an article by [ CITATION Nin21 \l 1033 ] about 225
million people worldwide lost their jobs. On the other hand, when the application is
made many employees will be able to keep their jobs as the businesses will be able to
identify if the employees are infected or not by showing proof on the application.
Healthcare sector – This sector will be benefited greatly as when a citizen logs that
they have symptoms for COVID-19 the hospital nearest to him will be expecting the
citizen to arrive for a PCR test. The application will help hospitals avoid any
Transport sector- this is the only sector that will be affected in the case of the mobile
application alternative. As the citizen logs in the application that they have COVID19
they will not be allowed to use any form of transportation and this will lead to the
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Secondly, we will evaluate how the On-Door 15 minutes PCR alternative can affect the
stakeholders. The two alternatives share the same benefits and harms when it comes to
the organizations, employees, healthcare sector and transport. However, they differ in
Community – The idea of an on-door PCR can be quiet annoying for some citizens.
For instance, a person can visit 2 different malls in the same day and get tested twice,
this can cause irritation and inflamed nostrils from the PCR.
as they are the ones who will be paying for the enormous amount of PCR tests that will
be taken. The government could potentially be paying up to 3 PCRs per person every
day.
Ethical theories:
The ethical theories that are applied onto the two alternatives are the Utilitarian,
Firstly, coming to the Utilitarian, the theory is accepted in the mobile application as the
alternative provides a win-win situation for majority of the stakeholders. However, this
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theory was not accepted in the on door 15 minutes PCR as this alternative will cause
the government a great loss of funds spent on purchasing PCR tests. Secondly, the
next theory is Deontology. In this theory both of the alternatives were not accepted as
they do not prevent good consequences from occurring. Lastly, the social justice theory
was accepted under both of the alternatives as they respect the individual human rights
It is concluded that the best alternative to be chosen between the two alternatives is the
mobile application. The mobile application is the chosen alternative as it has been
The Decision has been made Milestone (time per day) selected decisions
WHO will program the
5 DAYS application
It will later ask governments to
COVID
To finalize, the decision that has been made is for WHO to create an application that will
track a citizen’s health, location and if they have had done any PCRS or taken the
vaccine. The software application will be design and developed by WHO which
estimating will take 5 days. Afterwards, they will ask every country if they will be able to
enforce this application on their citizens as they believe it will help decrease the number
of cases worldwide. This will approximately take 7 days to ensure they have reached all
the countries from each representative they have. When a confirmation from the
government is claimed the application will be available to the specified country. Later,
the citizens will be able to download the application on their mobile phones and sign up
with their national ID number of their country. This process can take up to 3 days to be
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successful. Finally, the WHO will be able to monitor the number of cases approximately
GANTT CHART
The citizens will download the application and proceed to make accounts using their National ID of their country
The WHO will have the ability to keep track records of the COVID-19 cases
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Corporate social responsibility also known as (CSR) refers to “the responsibilities that a
2) responsibility to deny harm even if you are not the cause of the harm
Responsibility not to cause any harm is just obeying the law and not hurting anyone or
any organization. To deny harm is you are trying to stop people from doing harm finally
The world health organization is under the category of the second responsibility which is
“to deny harm even if you are not the cause of the harm” and that is because the WHO
is trying to deny the harm of COVID-19 even if they are not the cause of the harm
1) Family
2) Happiness
3) Employability
4) Pollution
5) Education
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1) The Economic model
The economic model also refers to the (win-win) model because all the users
benefits from the outcome of the model. The model main concept is to go after profit
as long as it is legal and within the law, and to allocate all the resources into the
most efficient place. Since the organization satisfy the consumer demand therefore
maximum consumer satisfaction will occur. This model state that the business dose
not have any legal responsibility beyond the economic and legal ends. The world
health organization is under this model as both the organization and the users
benefits from finding a solution and the decreasing of numbers of cases in the world
The philanthropic model stats that the business should engage in the society in more
ways that goes beyond the law and economics. In this model charity is sometimes
done for 3 reasons, the 1 st reason is good reputation to the organization, The second
reason is good public relations and finally it sometimes help with tax deduction.
From the perspective of philanthropic model any thing that is done for financial
reasons not ethical reasons is not ethically correct. For example, in 2011 Heinz did a
“rise against hunger” event which was whenever someone liked there Facebook
page Heinz would donate to the meal bank and this gives a great brand awareness
part of the society that the organization operates in, and that the business should
obey the normal duties and ethical obligation that every citizen in that society face.
The model also emphasizes on the difference of the CSR responsibilities. The model
also states that all businesses has responsibility to respect the right of its employees
and customers.
4) Integrative Model
This model focuses on the Corporate social responsibility towards environment, the
model stats that the firm should balance its financial with its environmental goals.
The model also says that any firm success should not be measured only using their
profit but also their ecological and social bottom line of sustainability. There are two
types of organization who uses this model the non-profit organization and profit
In-depth analysis
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Our Chosen alternative solution is using a mobile application to track the number of
The 1st strength of our solution is it gives great track of COVID-19 cases which means
that the exact number of cases will be available in each region and makes it safer for
countries as well. The second strength is that it gives accurate data about the cases for
example it stats that this person has tested positive or has met someone who tested
positive. Finally, since the application uses GPS tracking system the application can
also warn the user that there was a confirmed case around the area he is in, this will
The 1st weakness is that the app requires a mobile phone, which means since according
to [ CITATION FPT12 \l 1033 ] 1 billion people around the world does not have a mobile
phone, so not everyone can be tracked or feel safer using the application. The 2 nd
weakness is that the application requires 24/7 network connection and GPS tracking,
and this can drain the battery of the phone of users, in addition to the network can be
insufficient. Finally, the 3rd weakness of our solution is that the application can be easily
manipulated for instance, the application requires both network and GPS tracking
system so the user can simply leave his phone at home and go outside, in addition to
the user can also just close the WIFI and the GPS tracking.
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The application can be linked with 3 rd part items or applications in the future, for
example the application can be linked with a bracelet to make it easier for the users and
the guards to check if this person has COVID-19 or not by scanning a barcode or
reading a RFID chip. The second opportunity is that the application can be easily
updated in the future which means that any additional features can be added such as
There are 2 threats in the application which are Bugs and Glitches, this threat can affect
the app in a bad way for instance, it can say that a user has tested Positive even if he
did not, it can also say that a COVID-19 Case was near your area while there is not and
vice versa.
The application has pros and cons but definitely the pros outweigh the cons and it’s a
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