Question

Cultural ethics and hiring

• Very personal questions about family background, age, marital status and religion are asked at the interviews.

• Preference is given to anyone who has family already working for the company. A person with good credentials but no connections through family or close friends to the company will not be hired.

• Religion creates rank. People of one religion would only be hired for menial positions while people of the other main religion could be hired for any position.

• Women are paid 2/3 the salary of men for doing the same job and married women can only work at this company if they have their husband’s permission.

• Employees are promised one wage at the interview but paid a lower wage in reality.

Please answer the following questions:

• All of the differences are legal and normal in Country H. Does that make them ethical? Why or why not?

• What would you do? Would you go along with their practices? Would you try to change the minds of the people you supervise and change the ethics of this company? Would you give up the job because of ethical concerns and fly home?

• Choose whether it would be better to use ends-based thinking, rule-based thinking, or care-based thinking to make a decision as to what course of action to take in this situation, and say why.

Answer 1

Ans. 1

All given statements are not seems to be ethical because they are against the modern way of thinking and they are also violating the social structure. Gender, religions, race and ethnic groups are elements of society but they cannot be measure of job recruitments and other social participation.

Ans. 2

I would never go along with this kind of with this kind of practices because they are not representing the modern society as well as not helping the society to develop in moral way. I will not allow such kind of practices in company, I will work with members and aware them the harm of these practices. The eligibility and capability never comes by religion, gender so how we can hire anyone with these measures.

Ans. 3

Any decision must be taken with the respect of personal beliefs but should not be prejudicial, the growth of company always depends on productivity not on cultural and traditional views. We must separate tradition from corporate culture. Diversity is a symbol of modern approach and social participation so that I will support modern culture rather than traditional one.