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The case analysis assignment will concern a sharing economy enterprise like Lyft. Should it alter its human resource or other practices to address possible ethical lapses? The written case should be in essay format, MLA style, and should address each of the following questions. Attached is instructions for the case analysis.
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Human Resource or Ethical Lapse?
Many companies in various industries have embraced the use of different styles of doing
their business. A sharing economy strategy is one of the methods utilized by some companies.
Sharing economy is a form of business enterprise where a company accesses human resources or
physical assets with other parties, which can be people or other businesses. The creation of
services or products, their distribution, trading, and utilization of the services or products by
different organizations and individuals are shared (Widener 112). Lyft and Uber are examples of
companies that have adopted this kind of enterprise in the transport and communication industry.
Lyft is a company in the transport and communication industry that provides riding services to
people across the world, who wish travel to different places and this is enhanced by an app
installed on a mobile phone that directs a passenger to a nearby driver (Lyft Company). The
shared resources are human recourses that include human labor, skills and knowledge and
physical resources such as transport routes, mobile phones, privately owned cars, among other
assets. In this case analysis, an ethical issue in Lyft Company is explained alongside relevant
facts. The shareholders of the company, the harms rights, and benefits are also outlined in this
script. Additionally, the possible alternatives to the issue identified and recommendations of to
solve the issue have been explained.
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Just like Uber, Lyft experiences the problem of labor to its workers. The drivers have
been complaining about low wages despite the exploding revenues Lyft earns every year.
Similarly, there is the issue driver security to the company in such a way that Lyft drivers are
required by the company to be fingerprinted like a criminal check in the firm’s business
operations since driver turnover is so high (Holloway 41). Rawlsian fairness and utilitarianism
models are compatible models that apply to the issues above. Drivers of the Lyft Company
complain of low salaries they earn since they feel the wages are not satisfying and that their
complaints may result in maximum satisfaction. They believe that their labor that is maximally
utilized should be maximally rewarded as it applicable for the utilitarianism model. Also, the
drivers are not happy about being fingerprinted and claim that it is unfair for them. The Rawlsian
model best applies to this issue.
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Works Cited
Holloway , Caleb. "Uber Unsettled: How Existsing Taxicab Regulations Fail to Address
Transportation Network Companies and Why Local Regulators should Embrace Uber,
Lyft, an Comparable Innovators." Wake Forest Journal of Busines and Intellectual
Propery Law 16.1 (2015): 22-67. Print.
Lyft Company. A Ride Whenever You Need One - Lyft. 2017. Interne Source. 7 June 2017.
Widener, Michael N. ""Shared Spatial Regulating in Sharing-Economy Districts" ." Seton Hall
Law Review 46.1 (2015): 111-188. Print.
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Human Resource or Ethical Lapse?
Many companies in various industries have embraced the use of different styles of doing
their business. A sharing economy strategy is one of the methods utilized by some companies.
Sharing econ...