Utilitarian Ethics
Business Ethics 3825
Case of the Sole Remaining Supplier
Relevant stakeholders
Internal stakeholders
External stakeholders
Utilitarian ethics: Action plan
Desired aims
Specific Actions
Raising the quality control standards
Develop elaborate Standard installation and operation procedures (SIOP)
Right of revoking supply contract unilaterally in case of non-compliance to SIOP
Optimal good achieved
Case of the Sole Remaining Supplier
The case of 'sole remaining supplier' is regarding a firm that manufactures heart pacemakers. The pacemaker is a modern device that is used by the heart patients who have a medical problem of skipping heart beats. If regular heart beat (averagely after each 1.2 seconds) does not take place, the pacemaker stimulates the heart and it beats regularly. In its earliest years of invention, patients solely depended upon pacemaker whereas their own heart normal heartbeat was suspended. There were serious reservation in public, doctors, and the supplier company as to the...
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