Impro Company operates in a state where corporate taxes and workers’ compensatio
ID: 2378183 • Letter: I
Question
Impro Company operates in a state where corporate taxes and workers’ compensation insurance raes have recently doubled. Impro’s president has just assigned you the task of preparing an economic analysis and making a recommendation relative to moving the entire operation to Missouri. The president is slightly in favor of such a move because Missouri is his boyhood home and he also owns a fishing lodge there.You have just completed building your dream house, moved in, and sodded the lawn. Your children are all doing well in school and sports and along with your spouse, want no part of a move to Missouri. If the company does move, so will you because the town is a one-industry community and you and your spouse will have to move to have employment. Moving when everyone else does will cause you take a big loss on the sale of your house. The same hardships will be suffered by your coworkers, and the town will be devastated.
In compiling the costs of moving versus not moving, you have latitude in the assumptions you make, the estimates you compute, and the discount rates and time periods you project. You are in a position to influence the decision single handedly.
Instructions
(a) Who are the stakeholders in this situation?
(b) What are the ethical issues in this situation?
(c) What would you do in this situation?
Explanation / Answer
a)
Stockholders are the stakeholders in this case
b)
Ethical issues are: In this there are 2 situations one is view this situation on behalf of the company side or another is on behalf of him self and other employees or co workers
If he is just view this situation on behalf of the company side then he will decide to shift the company to Missouri because in the present state the company is facing problems with higher taxes. But this decision will cause loss to him as well as to other workers to shift their entire families.
If he is just view this situation on behalf of him self and other employees or co workers then this decision will cause loss to company
So he has to take decision that will cause loss neither to company nor to the workers.
c)
If I am in this situation then I will follow the ethics without thinking selfishly. I will take decision that will not cause loss neither to company nor to the workers.