Ethical Dilemmas
ETHC-445-68329 Massey Principles of Ethics
Rehan Ashraf
Homework Assignment, Week-3
DeVry University
Scenario 1
The Mayor of a large city was given a free membership in an exclusive golf club by people who have received several city contracts. He also accepted gifts from organizations that have not done business with the City but might in the future. The gifts ranged from $200 tickets to professional sports events to designer watches and jewelry.
Analysis
There is no doubt; the mayor is an unethical person. It’s not a bad thing to exchange gifts unless there is some unethical string attach to it and as the scenario clearly mentioned that the mayor received those gifts to provide certain unethical favors back to the gift senders. A person may have a counter argument that those contractors were not doing something illegal but rather providing services to the city and creating more jobs. It is may be true that those contractors will contribute to city development but it eliminates the process of merit. What if there are better people with great ideas for city development, would they get chance to contribute to city’s development, the answer is no thus the city’s future growth and construction will be limited to certain hands. Therefore for mayor to accept gifts is completely unethical and it reduces or completely eliminates the chances for well skilled contractor to get merit based contracts.
Mayor may think his favors does not harm the city but rather providing extra jobs and development for the city. This may provide extra jobs and few developments to the city but in long run this process will keep the city behind from other cities where merit based selection will boost their city’s development. Let’s assume, there are two architecture engineering students, who are about to graduate from the engineering school, first of them has proven skills to be the best architectural engineer while second student barely passed the engineering school. However the second
Rehan Ashraf
Homework Assignment, Week-3
DeVry University
Scenario 1
The Mayor of a large city was given a free membership in an exclusive golf club by people who have received several city contracts. He also accepted gifts from organizations that have not done business with the City but might in the future. The gifts ranged from $200 tickets to professional sports events to designer watches and jewelry.
Analysis
There is no doubt; the mayor is an unethical person. It’s not a bad thing to exchange gifts unless there is some unethical string attach to it and as the scenario clearly mentioned that the mayor received those gifts to provide certain unethical favors back to the gift senders. A person may have a counter argument that those contractors were not doing something illegal but rather providing services to the city and creating more jobs. It is may be true that those contractors will contribute to city development but it eliminates the process of merit. What if there are better people with great ideas for city development, would they get chance to contribute to city’s development, the answer is no thus the city’s future growth and construction will be limited to certain hands. Therefore for mayor to accept gifts is completely unethical and it reduces or completely eliminates the chances for well skilled contractor to get merit based contracts.
Mayor may think his favors does not harm the city but rather providing extra jobs and development for the city. This may provide extra jobs and few developments to the city but in long run this process will keep the city behind from other cities where merit based selection will boost their city’s development. Let’s assume, there are two architecture engineering students, who are about to graduate from the engineering school, first of them has proven skills to be the best architectural engineer while second student barely passed the engineering school. However the second