Ethical Issues in management

What’s Wrong with This Picture? Pages 252-253

You’re a management consultant who has been asked by Green Company to help design an ethics communication and training program for all Green Company employees. Your meetings to date have been with the head of human resources, and your contract with the company has been negotiated with him. Once the papers have been signed, you begin your research and are quickly stymied by Green’s corporate counsel. He says that you will not be allowed to ask employees about ethical dilemmas that have occurred at Green. He specifically asks that you get your information from other sources such as press accounts of problems in the industry, or from other organizations with which you’ve worked. In addition, the head of human resources has told you that you’ll be unable to meet the three most senior executives because they’re busy negotiating a large acquisition. You will have access to other high-level managers who can tell you what they think the seniors want. You’re instructed to write a code of conduct for the company and a mission statement, and prepare presentations for the seniors to give to employees sometime next month on corporate expectations and values.

After reading the case and using the knowledge gained in the chapters, you must analytically address the questions at the end of the case on page 253: all 4 questions.