Case 5: Eve and Trade Secrets Who has moral responsibility for deciding what to do? In this case we are introduced to Eve DuPlacie, an information technology professional working for Orange Company. Orange company is a huge corporation who produces wireless mobile device, and rivals her previous telecommunications employer Banana Company. Eve has found herself in an ethical dilemma of whether or not to provide her new employer with trade secrets that she is contractually obligated not to disclose by her previous employer. Her new employment contract with Orange obliges her to utilize all her skills and knowledge of the industry to help improve Orange’s products; however, her previous employment contract at Banana contained a clause requiring her not to disclose any of their commercial information for a year after her contract ended. She is obliged by her current employer to disclose the trade secrets, and obliged not to disclose them by her previous employer. Seeing as how there are no others in the case who would influence Eve’s decision, Eve is the only one morally responsible for deciding where her loyalties lie. While there are factors within the case from both perspectives that perhaps could influence her decision, Eve is still the only person responsible for her course of action. Whose interest must we consider? This case provides us with multiple parties who are owed moral consideration while attempting to reach a decision. Banana Company, Orange Company, and
There are two major lawsuits which the main populace has defined as frivolous. One of those cases is the McDonald’s split coffee case. This is the case where the plaintiff spilled her coffee and was rumored to sue McDonald’s for 2.7 million dollars and win. The other’s case is the Pearson dry cleaning case where a man sued Chung Dry Cleaner’s 54 million dollars for losing his pants. The plaintiff won in the McDonald’s Case and the Plaintiff lost in the Dry clearance’s case. In this paper we are going to dissect each case by the facts, the law, the issues, the ethical issues, the defendants preventative
In today’s 21st century, it takes good ethics for every company to strive competitively to maintain as the best top competitor in their industries; and has its provocations of smart goal as to how successfully they anticipate their business to function, when it comes to finances, attracting and recruiting employees, begin an admirable corporation to citizens, and while showing customers and employees love, courteous, and appreciation. Companies forestall unethical behavior of bad reputation to uphold the organization values. These atrocious speculations can permanently cause decreased revenues and will degrade the company name, sometimes irreparably damaged.
Case Description: Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of South Florida, etc., vs. Carlos Bermudez, et al.,
Bart J. Van Dissel and Joshua D. Margolis’s Martha McCaskey, is a case study about Martha McCaskey, a young, inexperienced graduate in her first full-time job facing an ethical dilemma. McCaskey has to make decisions between promotion from successfully completing a project but conflicting her ethics and professional integrity and alienation from losing 20% of the division’s total revenue and future businesses due to failure of completing the project. To further analyze the case and derives ideal solution, we should understand that McCaskey is not the only major stakeholders influenced by the event. Other major stakeholders and their problems have to be identified. By understanding goals, concerns a problems of each stakeholder, we could then conduct analyses of alternative solutions in order to derive recommended solutions for McCaskey.
For this case study, both Kareem and ABC Corporation ought to be responsible for the potential legal failures as there was room for both parties to prevent the results of this situation. One of the issues presented in this case begins when Kareem did not reveal his
Greenman v. Yuba Power Products (1963) 59 C2d 57, and Escola v. Coca-Cola Bottling Co., 24 Cal.2d 453, 150 P.2d 436 (1944) are Important cases in product liability law, establishing strict
Soft Drink Corporation is charged with violating the Sherman Act through conduct subject to the rule of reason. When applying the rule of reason in this situation, a court will not consider
Most conflicts scholars and courts now recognize the principle that the parties to a contract generally may agree upon the law which will govern their relationship.' "One of the few non-controversial maxims of conflicts is that the autonomy of the parties should be given great weight.” While the principle of party autonomy has only recently achieved preeminent and almost uncontested status in American conflicts of
This review will address several issues associated with the legal, business, and ethics related to the case. First, it will address the legality of the case by reviewing the definition and analysis of General Investment (GI) as a holder in due course. Next, this review will analyze the business effects
In the second case with Liebeck v. McDonald’s the issue of negligence is presented. Prior to
The court reasoned that the defendants “recognized BSC's corporate status,” emphasizing Mayor’s status as BSC’s president, Castellano’s business partner, and Planet Laundry’s “co-principal.” Because “the one-day delay in BSC's formation was, from the [defendants’] perspective, utterly inconsequential, they cannot now be heard to deny BSC's corporate
Anne clearly used poor judgement, both by her actions against the company and by encouraging another employee to do the same. As the senior employee, she abused the trust instilled in her by the company to appropriately train new employees. Anne should have represented the company in accordance with their ethical policy and company standards. I was struck by how nonchalant she was when speaking about her unethical actions. It reminded me of what Johnson called “ethical fading”. According to
Having a lot of competitors is a challenge for SecretSales to differentiate itself and to keep up their popularity and profit. In order to beat the competition, the business needs to identify threats and weaknesses of the other similar businesses and take advantage as soon as possible; they must know what others are doing wrong and not ignoring or underestimate them. Analysing customers’ needs and marketing trends, SecretSales can stay ahead of the game.
In “The Skeleton in the Corporate Closet,” some very significant and profound ethical dilemmas are presented, which cut directly to the core of the corporate culture of the organization involved – General Parkelite Company (GPC). I begin my evaluation with a brief overview of the case, and then proceed to identification of the central and peripheral issues involved, delineation of the facts and suppositions used in my analyses and as the basis of my recommendations, and finally I present my analyses and recommendations.
Software industry work includes developing software, websites, webpages and many more. New emerging technology itself allow offenders to use technology to steal code or develop same type of software or web page using the existing documentation. For example, users can get source code of any software which is developed using .NET framework or C#