For this short exercise, you will read the moral dilemma and you will respond wi
ID: 3183075 • Letter: F
Question
For this short exercise, you will read the moral dilemma and you will respond with decisions based on your own moral reasoning. You are a food chemist employed by a company that makes baby food. You suspect that there is a flaw in the manufacturing process and that this flaw has resulted in contamination of the baby food. This contamination can result in serious illness, even death of those that consume the baby food. You have been told by your supervisor that there is nothing wrong with the baby food. You have been warned that if you blow the whistle you will be putting the company in jeopardy. If you blow the whistle, you will be fired from your high paying career and you will be banned from ever working in the baby food industry. As the sole provider in your household which includes your spouse, your three children, and your parents, your family depends on you. What do you do? Why? After thinking carefully about the above moral dilemma, do the following: Using your critical thinking skills, describe in great detail the decision that you would make and explain why. Identify the moral value(s) or principle(s) on which you based your decision.Explanation / Answer
Answer to part a)
If I am food chemist , and I trace out that there is some contamination in baby food, due to the manufacturing process of the company , it turns out to be my responsibility to inform the management about it
Every company has its own whistleblowing porcess, and being a baby product manufacturing company , it may have more stringent rules to follow related to the quality of the product. The whistleblowing process can be followed and the management must surely be approached. May be it is the fault of the supervisor and the management is not aware of it. The management can thereafter support the cause and rectify the manufacturing process. This may help save the life of the babies who consume the products of this company. yes there are some chances that the management is also involved in it , and it would expect us to stay silent and continue doing the flawed work, in that case the people outside the company must be appraoched. This is surely risky as it may lead to loss of job , but isn't it that you are doing a good cause, and you will surely get a better offer soon
And infact if you stay silent , sooner or later there would be complaints raised by the company and then you would again lose the job , and this time no body would offer you a good job again. Thus it is better to inform about it to the right authorities, so that action is taken before it is too late, even if this may cost you your job
.
Answer to part b)
The moral values included in here, are honesty and loyal . Here the company expects you to stay silent and that would be considered as being loyal to the company . Whereas if you follow honesty , you will let the right people know about the wrong being done by the company. Thus there is aconflict between the two values : honesy and loayalyt towards the company. in the above decision we preferred Honesty over loyalty.
Related Questions
drjack9650@gmail.com
Navigate
Integrity-first tutoring: explanations and feedback only — we do not complete graded work. Learn more.