Description
Select a company or organization whose fairness or ethics is currently being scrutinized in the news or in social media. Provide enough background information about your selected company to convey its size and prominence in society, and then explain in detail the alleged fairness and ethics violations. Conclude your paper by choosing to support the allegations or refute them, and explain your reasoning based on what you have learned. In your discussion, be sure to include the information below.
- Summarize the concept of fairness as it relates to decisions.
- Explain how personal and business ethics can be subconsciously overridden in decision-making. Does your selected business exemplify this?
- Describe how the company could improve its image regarding fairness and ethics in decision-making.
Your paper must be a minimum of three pages in length, and it should contain at least two academic references. Please use APA formatting and citations.
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Running Head: BUSINESS ETHICS BREACH AT AMAZON
Business Ethics Breach at Amazon
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Business Ethics Breach at Amazon
Few companies have enjoyed such a meteoric rise as Amazon in the last two decades
with the online retailer making immense strides to become one of the largest companies in the
world today (Izogo & Ozo, 2015). Started in 1994, the company has taken advantage of the
increased migration of businesses to the internet to become a leading provider in retailing of
goods to all parts of the world (Donici et al., 2012). It operates in a low-profit margin model with
great emphasis placed on delivering the goods at the lowest possible price to the clients (Izogo &
Ozo, 2015). This way, more customers are lured into purchasing the goods with the provision of
shipping to the desired location, giving it a massive edge over physical retailers. The latter do not
offer such after-sales services. Such has been the large impact of Amazon to customers with
many people trusting the retailer as a legit and reliable shopping channel. However, the recent
Corona Virus pandemic has seen Amazon embroiled in a brawl with its workers (Bain, 2020). A
number of them have threatened to sue the company over the poor working conditions that those
who operate in warehouses are exposed to with little being done to ensure that they are wellprotected.
Fairness and Decisions
Fairness at the workplace is a critical facet that all institutions should uphold especially
when handling their employees’ issues. On this regard, Amazon has massively failed with the
handling of the grievances done in an unsatisfactory manner and thus causing the escalation of
the issue. Amazon has failed to fulfil the ethical obligation of protecting its employees, and a
result breached the ca...
