Reflecting on the concepts in the course, select and research one (1) of the company situations listed below and discuss the legal and ethical issues surrounding it. A citation for each company is provided to get you started and you may use this citation as one of your sources. You must include APA in-text citations as well as full citations in an APA-formatted Reference list at the end of the paper.
Your essay should include the following, organized in your paper using headings with logical and smooth transitions.
1) A well-stated introduction that
identifies the company,
briefly explains the company’s legal and ethical problem, and
provides a thesis statement for the paper that provides the reader a well-conceived approach or practical perspective on the problem presented by the company’s situation. This will demonstrate more than one academic topic is covered.
2) Discuss how the philosophy of economist Milton Friedman’s shareholder or free market ethics may have influenced the leadership of the company.
3) Identify and define another ethical framework that the company leadership could have utilized in this situation and explain how this ethical framework would have led to a different result. Explain specifically how the company effectively would have employed this framework.
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