Description
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Maximum 1 page single-spaced for your response. *A minimum of 3 citations from the Johnson textbook is required.
Case Study 13.3:
These four scenarios highlight common ethical issues faced in cross-cultural contexts. They are drawn from a variety of cultural settings and organizational contexts. Please play the role of the protagonist in ONE of the scenarios and to determine a course of action based on specific ethical considerations presented in chapter 13. Each scenario poses an issue to be resolved using either the Integrated Social Contracts theory, the HKH model, or both frameworks. Choose just one to write a response to appropriate person relative to the case. You must use a minimum of 3 citations
In your discussion you should:
1. Distinguish between cultural differences and ethical problems.
2. Apply cross-cultural decision-making models to ethical diversity issues.
3. Determine which norms take precedence in cross-cultural contexts.
4. The steps of the Integrated Social Contracts Model and/or HKH model with a discussion related to them.
Explanation & Answer
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Discussion
In the ‘Warlord Tax’ scenario, a form of bribery is to be paid to armed warlords, to
deliver food to 100, 000 starving people in the Horn of Africa. However, the organization’s
policy is never to pay any form of bribes, regardless of how corrupt a region is. This poses a
serious ethical issue to the organization, since failing to pay the tax would significantly
contribute to starvation and malnutrition in the region. Several schools of thought believe that
every region has its ethics. Thus, cultural differences cause variations in what people believe
to be ethically right and wrong. According to normative ethics, we do not always do what we
should. Normative ethics clarify th...