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Suicide At The France Telecom

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Marlon Alonso
Kelly Shaw
Mark Thomson
Andrew Difrancesco “Suicide at The France Telecom”

1. What are the business and the ethical issues? Why does making an ethical decision in this case become a dilemma? Many ethical issues arise from such a wave of suicides, especially coming from France Telecom which in one of the most successful companies in France in the telecommunications field was involved in a controversy when 23 of its employees committed suicide . The were losing high level workers that have been working for the company for years. Also, they have to pay off a large amount of debts due to the downfall of their stock prices. Other business problems were the heavy workloads because they were not a lot of employees to do the job and only one person was responsible of doing all the job, the lack of control was a big issue in this company because they were very unorganized with their employees and assigning jobs, poor communication, job security because they were losing their jobs, and lack of management support. This company had several problems and difficult situations that required that a person or the organization as a whole to choose between alternatives that must be evaluated as right or wrong. This lead to some ethical issues in this case, such as how the human resources department were creating programs with the goal of eliminating employees from FT’s payroll and also reassigning employees to new positions, which might involve relocation and

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