An American Manager of a Multinational Company Who Is Working

question 121

Multiple Choice

An American manager of a multinational company who is working in one of the company's production plants located in a foreign country, employs child labor at the manufacturing unit he oversees. When criticized as unethical, the manager argues that such actions are ethically defensible because every company in the country is doing it. What ethical approach is this manager using?

• A) utilitarianism
• B) righteous moralist
• C) naive immoralist
• D) Kantian ethics
• E) ethnocentrism

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