After studying this chapter, you should be able to: Describe why an understanding of basic approaches to ethical decision making and corporate social responsibility is important, explain the basic approaches to ethical decision making, identify the different implications of each approach in real-life situations,. | Judgment in Managerial Decision Making 8e Chapter 8 Fairness and Ethics in Decision Making Copyright 2013 John Wiley & Sons 1 Accepting a Job Offer You are graduating from a good MBA program. Subsequent to your discussions with a number of firms, one of your preferred companies makes you an offer of $110,000 a year, stressing that the amount is not negotiable. You like the people. You like the job. You like the location. However, you find out that the same company is offering $120,000 to some graduating MBAs from similar-quality schools. Will you accept the offer? - Consider the following scenario about a hypothetical job offer. - Most people are bothered by the fact that they receive less than others even though they may be happy with the job offer without knowing about the salaries of others. 2 Price Increases Hurricane Katrina hits southern Louisiana, leaving many people homeless. For commodities such as building materials, demand is up and supply is down. This is a condition that | Judgment in Managerial Decision Making 8e Chapter 8 Fairness and Ethics in Decision Making Copyright 2013 John Wiley & Sons 1 Accepting a Job Offer You are graduating from a good MBA program. Subsequent to your discussions with a number of firms, one of your preferred companies makes you an offer of $110,000 a year, stressing that the amount is not negotiable. You like the people. You like the job. You like the location. However, you find out that the same company is offering $120,000 to some graduating MBAs from similar-quality schools. Will you accept the offer? - Consider the following scenario about a hypothetical job offer. - Most people are bothered by the fact that they receive less than others even though they may be happy with the job offer without knowing about the salaries of others. 2 Price Increases Hurricane Katrina hits southern Louisiana, leaving many people homeless. For commodities such as building materials, demand is up and supply is down. This is a condition that leads economists to predict an increase in prices. In fact, in the aftermath of the hurricane, a small building-supply company more than doubles its prices on many items that are in high demand, such as lumber. Are the price increases ethical? Are they rational? Now, consider this scenario about price increases in response to an increase in demand caused by a natural disaster. Though it is rational to increase prices in response to increases in demand, people are outraged by what they perceive to be an unfair price increase that takes advantage of others’ misfortune. This problem and the prior problem illustrate that perceptions of fairness and ethics often cause decisions to deviate from what would be predicted by economic theory. In order to better predict the behavior of others, it is crucial to understand how fairness and ethics come into play. 3 Supply and Demand A hardware store has been selling snow shovels for $15. The morning after a large snowstorm, the store raises the .
