Fernando's Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, 3rd Edition

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Part 1

 Business Ethics

operations, were trained suitably to enable them to be absorbed in the company’s other divisions

while others who were not in a position to be deployed within the company were paid wages for

a reasonable period of time until they secured alternative employment elsewhere. But this is not

an easy job—it is more easily said than done in real-life situations. Therefore, ethicists nd it

difcult to offer a solution to these conicting situations. Barry (1986), however, proposed the

following decision making rules regarding cases of conicts and mixed effects:

1.

Choose the more importan

t obligation between two or more ...