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A Case Analysis of Ethical Decision-Making

ETHICAL DECISION-MAKING IN AN ORGANIZATION: A CASE ANALYSIS

Description of the Situation and Identification of the Ethical Issue

The situation is one in which the writer of this case was a member of a project analysis team that was charged with assessing the financial feasibility of a new aircraft model. The essential determination of financial feasibility for the new aircraft model involved several elements. The first consideration was the breakeven point - both financial and production volume. With respect to the financial breakeven point, the initial criterion was the number of years that would elapse between program launch and financial breakeven. The next consideration was the production volume required to reach financial breakeven. Assuming that the time required for attainment of the financial breakeven point was acceptable, the second criterion was the probability that the requisite volume of aircraft could be sold between program launch and the time-point of financial breakeven.

Highly detailed and in-depth analyses were performed to over the better part of a year of long overtime days to develop the extensive financial projections required to assess the financial feasibility of the proposed new aircraft model. Extensive negotiations between the design, engineering, production, sales, materials acquisition, finance, and human resources functions within the company were conducted to develop data that were as accurate as they could be considering that the life of the new aircraft model was expected by approximate 25-to-30 years.

When (after just over 11 months of work on assessment project) the feasibility assessment for the new aircraft model was at last complete in draft form, the writer of this case was a member of the team that presented the study to the executive vice president of the company. The executive vice president was charged with reviewing the feasibility study before a final version of the study...

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