Project 5: Managing a Global Business
Step 2: Review the Employment Issues Case
URGENT MESSAGE (Special Assignment)
From: Janet Yoon, CEO, Colossal Corporation
To: International Task Force
Hello all, I hope your task force has come together nicely now that you’ve formed your team agreement and have decided on a sound project work plan.
I would like this team to review the Employment Issues case file and address the following questions regarding Colossal’s fully owned subsidiary, New Brands Design, Inc. (NBD):
- From solely an ethical perspective (not a legal perspective), is terminating Elena and Viktor the right thing to do? What other options should be considered and why? Considering all the relevant factors, what is the best solution? Use ethical theory and analysis to support your answer.
- What laws would govern these employment issues if Elena, Viktor, Michael, and Beth all worked for NBD’s headquarters in the United States? Describe each person’s situation, the laws that would apply, and what rights each person would have. Be sure to include all claims and possible defenses.
- Do the laws listed in your answer to the previous question apply to Elena, Viktor, Michael, and Beth as employees of NBD in Serafini? Describe the laws that apply and the laws that do not apply to each of the four individuals as employees in Serafini and explain your reasoning. Be sure to include all claims and possible defenses.
To inform your analysis of these issues, read the background information on employment discrimination and cross-cultural ethical business decision making (specifically focus on the “Ethical Theory in Global Business” resources).
If anyone can provide us with guidance on this, it’s this team. Thanks everyone for your dedicated work.
Keep leading the way!
Janet
Project 5: Managing a Global Business
Step 3: Prepare Your Employment Issues Report
Using your outline and research notes, write a report for the CEO, Janet Yoon. Be sure to meet the following requirements:
- Include APA-formatted in-text citations and an APA-formatted reference list (do not format the body of the report using APA style, just the reference list). See references and citations for details.
- Include a specific recommendation on what action, if any, the CEO should take based on your analysis and conclusions.
- Support your conclusions with references to ethical theory, legal principles, and laws.
- The report should be no more than five pages (double spaced, 12-point font; the reference list does not count towards page limit).
- Title your file using this protocol: teamName_EmploymentIssues_date.docx.
When you have finished, follow the instructions in the final step of this project to submit your report to the Assignments folder. You should try to have this report complete by the end of Week 9.
In the next step, you will read about the second case the CEO needs the task force to analyze.