Gumdrop Northern

Recently, several issues concerning the practices of Gumdrop Northern has risen, especially concerning the company’s ethical practices. The company has been charged with several breaches of ethical practice both in business and in humanitarian affairs. It is important to find resolutions to these missteps in order to avoid future legal problems and to improve stakeholders’ interest in the business.

This paragraph helps the student give an overview of Gumdrop’s grievous ethical blunders. It was revealed recently that Gumdrop Northern has been selling landmines to insurgents working against American interests in the Middle East. The most notable of these customers is the Taliban working in Afghanistan and in Iran. In fact, it has been revealed that Gumdrop Northern received at least half of its revenue, reaching nearly $500 billion annually, from these illegal activities. Gumdrop Northern was selling landmines to the terrorist network while, at the same time, providing the US Military forces stationed in the same areas with subpar armor and vehicles. In an almost ironic twist, the landmines sold to the Taliban were also subpar (and oftentimes defective) killing those that set the landmines up due to faulty switches. Landmines are already extremely dangerous, posing a significant risk to local populations especially children (United Nations Association in Canada, 2010). More often than not, it is children that are maimed or killed by landmines. Significant effort has been made on a global level to restrict and even outlaw landmine use (UNAC, 2010). Gumdrop Northern has received a considerable amount of legal trouble due to their manufacturing and selling of landmines. The fact that those landmines were sold to insurgents and enemies of the United States only exacerbates the matter. The US military attempted to seek legal restitution from the company, and the families of the soldiers and civilians hurt or killed had filed several lawsuits in an attempt to seek...