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2/18/24, 1:59 PMBadaracco’s Right vs Right Framew ork
Learning Topic
Badaracco’s Right vs Right
Framework
There are a variety of ethical frameworks that may be used instrumentally
to analyze those difficult questions that businesspersons must regularly
address. Some ethical issues present clear yes or no answers, a clear right
and wrong, but other ethical issues are much more difficult to address.
Professor Joseph Badaracco developed a framework for addressing those
more difficult questions, and particularly those questions of “right versus
right”; that is, when an ethical dilemma could result in multiple “right”
responses, based in attempted adherence to multiple, conflicting ethical
values that cannot simultaneously be fulfilled. Badaracco’s framework aims
to resolve ethical dilemmas involving conflicting yet legitimate moral
values.
Resources
Harvard FSS: Defining Moments: A Framework for
Moral Decisions
(https://libanswers.umgc.edu/faq/339659)
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Electropic LLC
Course Resource
Electropic LLC
Notice: Contains Confidential Information
Electropic LLC is a respected and profitable website design and hosting
company in Colossal Corporation’s technology group. Melissa Aldredge has
been a project manager at Electropic LLC for several years and was recently
considered for promotion to a senior project manager position. Ultimately,
the promotion was awarded to another long-term employee, June Pyle.
June and Melissa have a history of one-upping each other and sharing an
internal rivalry within the company.
Melissa recently reported internally that she had learned that June, who
was given the promotion over her, had never finished her MBA degree. All
of June’s business cards have “MBA” after her name, and the signature line
of her email reads “June Pyle, MBA.”
Electropic LLC’s policy manual states that potential employees must submit
transcripts for all degrees listed on their resumes. However, this
requirement was not in place 10 years ago when June Pyle was hired. June
has a history of stellar performance and was promoted not because of her
MBA, but because of her consistently exemplary work. June has received
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Electropic LLC
excellent performance evaluations during her time at Electropic LLC, and
her leadership has led to increased revenue as well as positive press for the
company. Her record of success is what led to her promotion.
As a result of Melissa’s report, the director of human resources sent an
email to all employees who were hired prior to the policy change requiring
transcript validation, asking that they provide transcripts to validate their
credentials. June did not respond to the director’s request for transcripts
and was called into the director’s office. In a very tense and tearful
interview, June confessed to the director that she does not have an MBA.
She admitted that she was 12 credits away from completing her degree,
but when her dad got sick, she had to drop out. She said that she really
needed a job to support her family and she put the MBA on her resume
hoping it would help her find a job. She shared that she always intended to
go back to school but became so busy with work that she didn’t have time.
Once she was hired, she felt that there was no turning back and she had to
keep the lie going by placing “MBA” in her email signature line and on her
business cards.
An MBA was not a requirement for the assistant project specialist job June
was hired for 10 years ago, but four years ago, it was made a requirement
for the senior project manager position she holds now. Two of the current
senior project managers do not have MBA degrees because they were
promoted before this requirement was in place.
Vice President Dodger has asked you to write a memo with your
recommendations on how human resources should handle this issue. June
has a record of excellence with Electropic LLC, and her superiors would be
unhappy to lose her; however, ethical practice and the law must be
considered here as well.
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