Essay - Ethics and Social Responsibility of Management in Order to Fully...

ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF MANAGEMENT

In order to fully analyze and underst***** the complete extent and scope of ***** ethical issues dealers and managers employed by American Honda Motor Company encountered, it is necessary to explain certain facts related ***** the case. One *****sue faced by dealers ***** managers was kickbacks. In this situation, a co-owner and manager would be notified by a zone s*****les manager to bid on the right to sell used company cars to the public. ***** Honda ***** Company had a policy th*****t required zone sales managers periodically ***** establish auctions so that all ***** in the area could bid on company cars that were driven by company executives or used to train company mechanics. The zone sales manager would ask a co-owner ***** manager to submit bids on each car that ***** $2,000 under wholesale market value in an attempt to target the ***** and ***** for kickbacks.

The z*****e sales manager would then create fake papers that showed other dealers had bid less than the dealer who was ********** for the kickback. After creat*****g these false documents, the zone sales ***** would then announce that the dealer ***** was targeted for the kickback had won the auction. Before the cars were loaded on trucks and delivered to the *****ship, the ***** sales manager would appear at the dealership ***** hand the dealer an envelope containing ***** invoice payable ***** an advertising agency co-owned by ***** zone sales ***** and a relative. The message ***** clear: the zone sales manager wanted a 50-50 split with the dealer on ***** $2,000 windfall each car would bring.

Dealers ***** with this situation were presented ***** an ethical ***** fin*****cial dilemma: if the ***** was paid, ***** cars would be delivered and the dealer ***** make a h*****ndsome profit. If the invoice ***** not paid, ***** cars would go to a de*****ler who was willing to cooperate with the zone sales manager in orchestrating ***** ***** scheme. Most importantly, dealers ***** ref***** to give bribes and ***** ***** Honda executives often found ***** they received fewer cars, delayed shipments of new *****s, and shipments of ***** *****able models. The culture ***** widespread corruption within American Honda Motor ***** began in the late 1970s ***** flourished in ***** 1980s and 1990s as the popularity of Honda automobiles surged to unprecedented levels.

When faced with an ethical and financial dilemma like the one described above, individuals may choose several courses of action b*****ed upon various philosophical and practical principles of ethical conduct. First, there is the categorical imperative, i.e., ***** should not adopt ***** of action unless they *****, without inconsistency, be *****ed by everyone. Under this theory, breaking promises, lying, ***** stealing are ruled out because society would disintegrate if they replaced property rights, truth telling, and vow keeping. Thus, a dealer or manager faced with an ***** dilemma such as whether to accept or make ***** or kickbacks must behave in a way that he ***** she