From the course: Leadership Ethics
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Ethics in action: Managing a quandary
From the course: Leadership Ethics
Ethics in action: Managing a quandary
- Let's take a moment to look at a real-life case, an engineer in an organization who find themselves in this ethical gray area. Bob. - So I'm going to talk about a situation where this individual has multiple ethical standards that they're expected to uphold, but upholding one is going to cause them to compromise the other. A very difficult situation. But, as you say, a true story I think we need to discuss. So there's an engineer named Michael, and Michael is working on new electric cell technology for, you know, electric cars and power cells for electric cars, using a completely different chemical property associated with it and they're getting some absolutely fantastic results. They go through some environmental tests associated with this, and there is a potential that there could be some physical danger or health danger for a user of a vehicle in some odd circumstances, right, of the use of these batteries for a…
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