Current ethical dilemma:
Selling out to help the needy
July 2008
You work in a decision-making role in a community organisation which works with deprived children. The organisation faces a serious financial shortfall due to cuts in government funding and may need to cut back on its important work.
However, the organisation has approached by a major corporation offering to provide funding in support of its work.
As part of its approach the corporation has suggested that the relationship between your organisation and the company could be enhanced if it could be arranged for some of the children to appear in a series of advertisements highlighting the 'good works' of the corporation.
The funding would be enough to not only overcome the current funding shortfall, but would also enable more work to be undertaken to help needy children.
However, you have concerns about recent bad press the corporation has received about alleged unethical business dealings.
Ethical questions:
- What are the issues?
- Who are the stakeholders?
- What should you do?
- What would you do?
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