When Apple faced controversy over Foxconn, the controversy was driven by people who had never been inside a Foxconn factory, never talked to workers there, had never been to China in all likelihood, and were applying Western contexts and values to a completely different company and culture. The company was faced more with a public relations dilemma than a moral dilemma, despite intensive media coverage (Bilton, 2014)
An anecdote with respect to this comes from a company called Fermata Entertainment. An associate, Binta Niambi Brown, was closing a deal with a client when some information surfaced that could be potentially scuttled the deal (Giang, 2015)
Business Ethics An ethical dilemma is defined as a situation where "an agent has moral reasons for doing two different actions, but where doing both of those two actions in not possible" (McConnell, 2014)
There are different ways of evaluating ethical dilemmas, including deontological ethics and consequentialism. Consequentialism is where the decision is weighed by its consequences (Sinnott-Armstrong, 2015)
In this study, the researcher will utilize different strategies and measures that are geared towards addressing these ethical issues. First, these issues will be addressed through ensuring the protection of human participants in the research by ensuring consent, voluntariness, and confidentiality (Drew, Hardman & Hosp, 2007, p
Since these questions are used to evaluate a concept relating to necessary characteristics for the potential candidate, using an appropriate measurement scale for each question is crucial towards enhancing reliability and validity of findings. While each question is an indicator of the concept, the question alone is not an adequate measure of the concept, which demonstrates the need for a more complete measure of the concept (Engel & Schutt, 2013, p
85). The first question in the survey will be measured through the use of an ordinal scale, which helps in ranking data from the lowest to the highest (Garger, 2010)
The second question in the survey will be evaluated using a nominal measurement scale since it requires a Yes/No answer. Generally, the nominal measurement scale in research is the lowest measurement level that involves classifying data into categories without any structure or order (Markham, n
The summated scale score is also crucial towards measuring reliability, validity, and sensitivity. This is primarily because a good summated rating scale is considered as reliable and valid since the scale generates consistent measurement over time and the ability to inter-correlate each item with the other because they are developed to measure the same construct (Spector, 1992, p