-Critical Thinking Exercise

Topic #1I would deliver the presentation as planned because I believe that the higher boss should know and be aware of what is going on at this national company. The boss should know that the employees feel that they are working hard, and also the boss should know that the management in this company does not care about customer service. The presentation should be delivered on time because everyone including the boss’s boss should know all about the negative results because by doing that anyone that is responsible whether it was the vice president or the managers can be held accountable for these results. Similarly, the boss should know about the positive results as well.

Some other alternatives are: delivering the presentation on time, but without stating the negatives results, but when boss leaves they should discuss the negative results with the management team, then take make the needed changes based on the outcome of the surveys. The next alternative is delivering the presentation but state many positive results, and only state one negative result that is not serious or important.

I believe that delivering the presentation on time is the best option and it is the most ethical one, because it is important to tell the truth which in this case is stating the negative and also the positive results of the survey.

“Should the Federal Government Be Able to Oust a Drug Company CEO?”

I think that it is just not fair to force the CEO of Forest Laboratories to retire for a criminal act that he did not commit in the first place. But whoever committed this criminal should be held accountable and be punished, and not the CEO of the company.

The alternative that I chose is that “Individual managers should not be held responsible for the unethical behavior of other people in the organization. After all, Solomon did not personally do anything wrong”. Solomon is the CEO of this Drug Company, it is not fair to him to be forced into retirement for something he did not...