The Informant Essay

The informant is a movie that is all about ethics and professionalism, corporate governance and social responsibility. This movie depicts the unethical ways a company or employees of a company can carry themselves for selfish reasons. This movie is about a high-ranking employee at the company Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), named Mark Whitacre, and it is all about him blowing the whistle on his company. A whistle blower is a person whom exposes the unethical behaviour, any fraudulent activities or any type of violation of the law. And this was Mark Whitacre, a whistle blower. This movie is placed in Decatur, Illinois, in the United States of America, in the early 1990’s to early 2000’s. Throughout the movie, Mark is seen to be the ‘good guy as he
In ‘The Informant’ the main unethical issues that are portrayed throughout the film is price-fixing and stealing from the company. Price-fixing is when a business such as ADM, comes together with its customers and collude on a fixed price for their goods or services and this is counted as illegal and unethical as it demands the customers of the business to create a higher expense to themselves whether or not they find the product of a high quality or not. Thus, in the movie, representatives of ADM went out to meet with their competitors in order to agree on fixing the price on their goods.
Stealing from the company, or embezzlement, is highly unethical. Especially for a well-earning scientist such as Mark. Mark has embezzled over $11.5 Million from the company for the last few years that he has been working at ADM. This is counted as a crime as it is counted as