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Top-Notch Hospital has decided to hire medical assistants and patient-care technicians on its labor and delivery unit to reduce salary expenditures.
Question 2: Analyze the ethical aspects of market competition in this scenario.
Solution:
The top-notch hospital has hired more qualified people for positions that require lower qualifications in their labor and delivery unit. Hence, the hospital now has more qualified people doing jobs that are not up to their qualifications. Hence, this results in a beneficial way for the hospital because the hospital is now having a more qualified workforce and the pay it has to give to these employees will also be lower because of their job roles. Hence, the company is getting talented employees at a very low cost.
If we consider this on ethical grounds, the steps taken by the hospital are definitely ethical unless the employees who are hired are aginst the employment at lower job positions. If the employees do not show any such signs then the hospital is definitely within the ethical boundaries and thus there are no ethical considerations as far as market scenario and market competition are concerned.
Thus, the hospital is well within the ethical boundaries and is perfectly competitive with building their quality workforce and hence a competitive advantage for the hospital.