The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781337535878
Author: Frank B. Cross; Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Cengage Learning US
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Chapter 5, Problem 1IS
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Case summary:A company AC, in order to amend its past discrimination, decided to adjust pay differences among its employees. The company AC considered it a moral obligation.
To explain :Presence of ethical conflict between the company AC and its employees, and between the company and its shareholders.
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