Cultural ethics and hiring

• Very personal questions about family background, age, maritalstatus and religion are asked at the interviews.

• Preference is given to anyone who has family already working forthe company. A person with good credentials but no connectionsthrough family or close friends to the company will not behired.

• Religion creates rank. People of one religion would only be hiredfor menial positions while people of the other main religion couldbe hired for any position.

• Women are paid 2/3 the salary of men for doing the same job andmarried women can only work at this company if they have theirhusband’s permission.

• Employees are promised one wage at the interview but paid a lowerwage in reality.

Please answer the following questions:

• All of the differences are legal and normal in Country H. Does thatmake them ethical? Why or why not?

• What would you do? Would you go along with their practices? Wouldyou try to change the minds of the people you supervise and changethe ethics of this company? Would you give up the job because ofethical concerns and fly home?

• Choose whether it would be better to use ends-based thinking,rule-based thinking, or care-based thinking to make a decision asto what course of action to take in this situation, and saywhy.