Darwin's Company Is Facing a Difficult Ethical Issue

question 175

Multiple Choice

Darwin's company is facing a difficult ethical issue.The firm has identified the various stakeholders and their issues and gathered the available data.Everyone with an interest in the issue has engaged in brainstorming and evaluating alternatives.Management reviewed and refined the alternatives.It should now choose the course of action that

• A) maximizes profits.
• B) creates the least possible publicity.
• C) involves the fewest employees.
• D) minimizes costs.
• E) seems best after weighing the concerns of all stakeholders.

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Definitions:

Conditional

A logical statement that has an if-then structure, implying that if one condition is met, then another condition follows.

Negation

In logic, the operation that takes a proposition to its opposite in truth value.

Disjunction

A logical operation that results in true if at least one of its operands is true.

Conditional

A statement, often expressed as "if-then," that specifies a condition and the outcome if that condition is met.