...Amber Davis had recently graduated from college with a degree in general business. Amber was quite bright, although her grades might lead a person to think otherwise. She had thoroughly enjoyed school—dating, tennis, swimming, and similar stimulating academic events. When she graduated from the university, she had not found a job. Her father was extremely upset when he discovered this, and he took it upon himself to see that Amber became employed. Her father, Allen Davis, was executive vice president of a medium-sized manufacturing firm. One of the people he contacted in seeking employment for Amber was Bill Garbo, the president of another firm in the area. Mr. Davis purchased many of his firm’s supplies from Garbo’s company. After telling Bill his problem, Allen was told to send Amber to Bill’s office for an interview. Amber did as instructed by her father and was surprised that before she left that day she had a job in the accounting department. Amber may have been lazy but she certainly was not stupid. She realized that this job was obtained because of the hope of future business from her father’s company. Although the work was not challenging, it paid better than the other jobs in the accounting department. It did not take long for the employees in the department to discover the reason she had been hired—Amber told them. When a difficult job was assigned to Amber, she normally got one of the other employees to do it, inferring that Mr. Garbo would be pleased with them...
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...wrong to hire Amber? Was Amber’s father wrong to ask Mr. Garbo to help out his daughter? Mr. Garbo considered hiring Amber keeping in view the commercial benefits attached with it but from ethical standpoint he was wrong in doing so. We further noticed in the case study that his decision in long run turned out to be more damaging than beneficial for the organization. • Amber was over paid that means extra burden for the company. • Amber realized that the biased decision was made under pressure of maintaining the sales generated due purchases from Mr. Garbo’s organization by her father’s company and this led her to be lazy and commanding in her work. • She started taking longer lunch hours and develop habit of arriving late for work and leave early. Mr. Allen Davis is also to be blamed equally for the situation because the influence used by him was not only ethically wrong but also jeopardize the business relationship between two organizations and also put the career and development of Amber at stake. • Amber started taking work for granted. • Mr. Allen created a wrong example for her that she might practice for rest of her life. • Mr. Allen’s help resulted in her daughter not paying attention and hence not learning from her work and that would eventually result into a career block for her. Q1) Does Amber has any ethical responsibility in this case? If so explain. Amber being an intelligent individual soon realized that she got the job due to his father’s...
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...3 Q1. From an Ethical standpoint, was Mr Garbo wrong to hire Amber? Was Amber’s father wrong to ask Mr Garbo to help out his daughter? Ans1. From an HR perspective, both were wrong. First of all, Mr Allen Davis being a responsible person who was positioned as Executive Vice president shouldn’t have utilized his business relation for his own betterment. Secondly, though Mr Garbo was aiming for future retention of his client. He shouldn’t have offered a job to Ms Amber without following regular recruitment process. As a result Mr. Garbo created a none equality among his employees which would lead to non-retention of productive & profitability work force. In short, shortcuts in doing business would not be favourable to any organization Q2. Does Amber have an ethical responsibility in this case? If so, explain. Ans2. As Ms Amber was very well aware about the reason behind her intake. And the intention of Mr Garbo to hire her in a higher pay scale. At least she should have made an attempt to prove herself as a better employee and retain the confidentiality. But in return she had ruined the internal and external relation of both the firms. Due to her unorthodox activities, she had spoiled environmental relationship among employee-employer relationship. And a result of her nature of taking things lightly and irresponsibility in the work would spoil the business and friendship between her Dad and her company. And eventually she would become a danger for her dad’s job...
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