Charlie sat at his desk the morning after his nightmare. He had answered the mos
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Question
Charlie sat at his desk the morning after his nightmare. He had answered the most pressing e-mails in his inbox and had a piping hot cup of coffee at his elbow. He looked down at a blank legal pad, ready to make notes about what to do in case his nightmare became reality. The policies that organizations put in place are similar to laws, in that they are directives for how to act properly. Like laws, policies should be impartial and fair, and are often founded on ethical and moral belief systems of the people who create them. In some cases, especially when organizations expand into foreign countries, they experience a form of culture shock when the laws of their new host country conflict with their internal policies. Suppose that SLS has expanded its operations in France. Setting aside any legal requirements that SLS make its policies conform to French law, does SLS have an ethical imperative to modify its policies to better meet the needs of its stakeholders in the new country? Suppose SLS has altered its policies for all operations in France and that the changes are much more favorable to employees—such as a requirement to provide child and elder-care services at no cost to the employee. Is SLS under any ethical burden to offer the same benefit to employees in its original country?
Explanation / Answer
Yes, SLS must have an ethical imperative to change its policies according to the laws and ethics of the new country. Because each country will be having its own ethics and laws based on its economic conditions, culture etc. Because the SLS has setup its operation center in that country it must follow according to this country rules. If not the country will not allow the company to carry on its operations. So it is must to tune the ethical rules the company is having according to the stakeholders country. Yes of course SLS will get Ethical burden if they offer the same benefit to the employees. And also it is ubfare to set ethical rules of one country in another country. Because each country will have its own rules. Coming to this situation it is more beneficial to the employees, here because of this employees obviously get benefitted from this but the company will spend amount from profits in this case. If there is less profit generating then company will go under financial crisis. Also if the company setup its operation center in some other country there the amount generated to that organization will be different and the amount generation in our country is different. So the final opinion is it is ethical burden to the company.