PHI 2397B MT 2 2023
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PHI 2397B: Business Ethics
Fall Semester 2023: Prof. K. Ferguson
Second Midterm Exam
Instructions -
Answer
any three
of the questions listed below. Each answer should
be about 500-600 words in length, although some of your answers may be a little
longer and others a little shorter, depending on the question you are answering.
Each question you answer is worth 10 points for a total of 30. You must upload
your answers to Brightspace (under “Assignment”) by 3:30 PM this afternoon,
Nov. 24 (exceptions will be made for those students who have extra time
accommodations).
List of Questions to Choose From
1)
Explain as clearly as you can what whistleblowing is using examples to
illustrate. Why should an employee not blow the whistle unless doing so is
essential to prevent some greater harm? Discuss in detail under what
conditions blowing the whistle is justified and/or morally required, using
examples to illustrate where helpful. Support your view by argument.
2)
In recent times, some self-proclaimed “progressivists” (for example, Senator
Elizabeth Warren, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, among many
others) have floated or promoted the idea that billionaires should be
“abolished”, presumably through taxation. In your opinion, would this be a
justified, feasible, beneficial, and morally justified course of action? Defend
your view by argument.
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3)
When Canadian companies do business in other countries around the
world, they often find themselves under pressure to give bribes to officials
in those countries in order to win contracts. What policy or policies do you
think the Canadian government should apply with respect to our
companies’ paying bribes in foreign countries? (Remember that it might in
some ways be in the financial interest both of our companies, and also of
the Canadian people, to engage in bribery.) Support your view by argument.
4)
What position does business professor Ian Maitland defend with respect to
the issue of international sweatshops in his article “The Great Non-Debate
Over International Sweatshops”? Why does he refer to it as a “non-
debate”? How does Maitland try to defend sweatshops? Is there any
reliable evidence in support of Maitland’s position or approach to this
issue? If so, what is it? All things considered, how plausible is the view that
sweatshops have been, and continue to be, beneficial in some ways for
developing countries.
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