Ethics Case Study

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Luke is part of a project that involves developing land recently bought by ABC company to build an adult entertainment retail store. Luke’s brother, Owen lives in the same neighborhood that this land is located. When the plans for the store become public the value of homes in Owen’s neighborhood are expected to declined. Luke knows his brother is thinking about selling his house. Owen has mentioned, he has reserves about even putting his home on the market for sale

ISSUE
The ethical issue is conflict that Luke faces is that between disclosing confidential information about the company to his brother, or being 100% honest and/or remaining loyal to to a member his family.

ANALYSIS- application of ethical theories

Utilitarianism
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Using Utilitarianism theory, it would require Luke to inform his brother of the company’s plan to build. It would be Owen’s best interest to sell his home, if perhaps he and/or his community were at risks physically for example. In such a case, the stakeholders of the community, whom would also could be the majority percentage, would be most venerable to the plans that may be detrimental to life creating more seriousness. However, given the facts Luke has stated this not the case. Luke interest in his brother’s property value recommendation comes from speculation yet to be realized on paper. It would be more an ethical disclose company information to Owen. This risk of stakeholders being quote unquote “harmed” by Luke’s potential disclosure would most certainly be in the same capacity as if the previous scenario were the case be, but Luke himself could face disciplinary action to no real benefit to anyone other than Owen. It would seem that ethical …show more content…

Luke has to decide what makes sense to him that will coincide with common sense law, ethics and moral. Luke has to ask himself this question, What would the world be like if everyone did or did not think and act as he does?
If Luke decides to tell his sibling about the project, he will definitely still be close to him, but it will backfire in his workplace. Luke could lose his job if he goes ahead of the company and reveals the information. Although, he will help his brother by giving him heads up, and somehow he can take the offer he has for his home. However, this can cause some type of suspiciousness among his neighbors, and if they find out, it will be a catastrophe and the only person that will be blamed is Luke, besides being Owen’s brother, he is in charge of the

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