Home Depot Ethical Dilemma Paper
RUNNING HEADER: ETHICAL DILEMMA
Home Depot Ethical Dilemma
Problem Statement In 2008, the CEO, Frank Blake was implicated for failing to report employee abuse. The allegation indicated tends from forgery, falsifying documents, harassment, and retaliations. Blake was aware of, and in numerous instances, participated in the alleged abuse, cover-ups and retaliatory actions, which involve the stockholders to demand the termination of Blake. His violation of ethics breaches were numerous, deliberate, and so egregious that a person would deem nothing less than immediate termination of all those involve (Blatchford, 2008). A little over a year, Home Depot was sending known sex offenders to be homes to provide a service. They were mishandling …show more content…
The Kantian theory sets out to restore reason to what is regarded as a rightful place in our moral life (Boatright, 2009). In this case, the former employee knows that there may not be a guarantee that he gets his job back even after exposing the unjust behavior working under the management and the CEO, Francis Blake. The employee that did the whistle-blowing was promised certain things for being an employee, once the employment began nothing that was discussed was applied or received. In the Kantian theory the employer had to make the offer look good to attract the employee to work for Home Depot, the tactics were immoral. Making an offer to an employee that the employer knows he cannot keep might would have cause the potential employee to decline the offer and seek employment elsewhere. No rule that would make such an action morally right could possibly be justified (Boatright, 2009). Using false presumptions are wrong; Kant denied that any consequence, such as pleasure could be good. In deontological theory, duty rather than good is the fundamental moral category, as the result the only thing that can be good without qualification is what is called good will, performing an action solely because it is our duty (Boatright,
Home Depot Ethical Dilemma
Problem Statement In 2008, the CEO, Frank Blake was implicated for failing to report employee abuse. The allegation indicated tends from forgery, falsifying documents, harassment, and retaliations. Blake was aware of, and in numerous instances, participated in the alleged abuse, cover-ups and retaliatory actions, which involve the stockholders to demand the termination of Blake. His violation of ethics breaches were numerous, deliberate, and so egregious that a person would deem nothing less than immediate termination of all those involve (Blatchford, 2008). A little over a year, Home Depot was sending known sex offenders to be homes to provide a service. They were mishandling …show more content…
The Kantian theory sets out to restore reason to what is regarded as a rightful place in our moral life (Boatright, 2009). In this case, the former employee knows that there may not be a guarantee that he gets his job back even after exposing the unjust behavior working under the management and the CEO, Francis Blake. The employee that did the whistle-blowing was promised certain things for being an employee, once the employment began nothing that was discussed was applied or received. In the Kantian theory the employer had to make the offer look good to attract the employee to work for Home Depot, the tactics were immoral. Making an offer to an employee that the employer knows he cannot keep might would have cause the potential employee to decline the offer and seek employment elsewhere. No rule that would make such an action morally right could possibly be justified (Boatright, 2009). Using false presumptions are wrong; Kant denied that any consequence, such as pleasure could be good. In deontological theory, duty rather than good is the fundamental moral category, as the result the only thing that can be good without qualification is what is called good will, performing an action solely because it is our duty (Boatright,