Discussion Board Forum 1 Case Study

Benji Watson should not choose to work for New Gen Health as it would violate his spiritual and ethical values. New Gen Health is not the only company that is recruiting him. Being that Benji is a Christian man, he is concerned with how a company portrays themselves.

While he was at New Gen Health’s “Get to Know Us” event, he brought up things he had read about the company both positive and negative. The recruiter immediately dismissed the positive things as just the Public Relations department’s way of exaggerating the truth. When Benji brought up the negatives he had seen, the recruiter said that it was just people disgruntled people whose down fall was not the product of New Gen Health and that the their lawyers would remove the negative information immediately. These comments call into question New Gen Health’s business ethics as they are deceiving and manipulative to put a good light on them. These actions go against the business ethics that God instructed his people in Deuteronomy 25:13-16, “You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light. You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. You all have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God is giving to you. Fall all who do such things, all who behave unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God” (Patterson, Kelly, & Dargatz, 2006, p.255). This passage describes how Christian people and businesses are supposed to treat individuals and other companies.

Benji should not sign a contract with New Gen Health as they do not represent the spiritual and ethical values he has. He should visit with all the companies that are recruiting him and then make his decision on what company matches his values.

References

Patterson, D.K., Kelly, R.H., & Dargatz, J. (Eds.). (2006). The Women’s Study Bible (2nd Ed.). Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson....