What Would You Do

question 129

Multiple Choice

What Would You Do?
Imagine that you are the head of a company that manufactures secondary wood products for the construction industry.Recently, there have been many reports of a plywood subflooring product that has been failing in a number of commercial locations resulting in several complaints about ruined floor coverings and, in one instance, partial collapse of a third floor, which injured three people.Your head of research and development has asked you to stop selling the product and wants to run tests on the product to determine the problem.However, third-quarter earnings reports are due out in two weeks and public knowledge of problems with a lucrative product may delay the financing of the company's expansion plans and also lower stock price.Your dilemma: Do you delay or refuse the product research, thereby enhancing the expansion plans but risking other damage and public safety, or do you immediately stop sales of the product and run the necessary tests, thereby risking the expansion plans?
-Refer to What Would You Do? (Scenario) .If you (as head of the company) made your decision based on what was best for the shareholders, you would be operating with the ________ view of social responsibility.

Definitions:

Lifetime Distribution

The allocation of income or wealth over the span of an individual's life.

Income Mobility

The extent to which income receivers move from one part of the income distribution to another over some period of time.

Income Inequality

A measure that highlights the uneven distribution of individual or household income across a population, leading to economic disparity.