Q Directions: Choose ONE question to answer by Wednesday nite at midnite and respond to ONE of your classmates’ posts by Saturday nite at midnite. DB questions for Cases 5, 6, 7, 8: 1. Can employee action against unethical behaviors such as those at Enron make a difference in a culture so entrenched with greed and arrogance as it was at Enron? If you had been an Enron employee, would you have been willing to write an email, make a call or ask for a meeting with the CEO to alert him to the ethical problems you observed? Why or why not? Do you think you could have been a “whistleblower” and reported the problems to a government agency or the media? Why or why not? 2. If you had been working for Toyota as the VP of Communications, what would you have advised the CEO to communicate about the acceleration problems to the media, the public, the government etc? 3. What lessons does the Sanlu Milk case provide for American organizations regarding Chinese organizational culture and media transparency in the face of such a serious crisis? Was this also an issue with the recent Conavirus epidemic? Discuss. 4. When corporate presence is strongly opposed by local communities as in the Tata Motors Limited case, but there are strong profit motives to stay, should companies try to win over communities or should they leave? How effective is reference to Corporate Social Responsibility in a crisis like this? Why or why not? 1. Can employee action against unethical behaviors such as those at Enron make a difference in a culture so entrenched with greed and arrogance as it was at Enron? If you had been an Enron employee, would you have been willing to write an email, make a call or ask for a meeting with the CEO to alert him to the ethical problems you observed? Why or why not? Do you think you could have been a “whistleblower” and reported the problems to a government agency or the media? Why or why not?
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