Organizational Behaviour Case Questions.

1) Is sending jobs out of the country unethical?

2) Using consequential and rule-based and character theories and evaluate Jill's options

Jill Warner and President of Ace Toys and sat looking at the monthly profit and loss statement. For the fifth month in a row and the company had lost money. Labour costs were killing them. Jill had done everything she might think of to reduce costs and still produce a quality product. She was beginning to face the element that soon she would no longer be able to avoid the idea of outsourcing. It was a concept that Jill had complete everything to avoid, however it was beginning to look inevitable.

Jill felt sturdily about making a quality American product using American workers in an American factory however if things continued the way they were, she was going to have to do something. She payable it to her stock holders and board of directors to keep the company financially healthy. They had entrusted her with the future of the company and she could not let them down. It wasn't her money or company to do with as she pleased. Her job was to ensure that Ace Toys flourished.

But if she chose to outsource the production segment of the company, only management as well as the sales force would keep their jobs. How might she face the 500 people who would lose their jobs? How would the minor community that depended upon those 500 jobs survive? She as well worried about the customers who had come to depend on Ace Toys to produce a safe product that they could give to their children with confidence. Would that quality hurt if she sent production half-way around the World? How could she confirm that the company she hired to produce their toys would live up to Ace's standards? Would the other company pay a fair wage as well as not employ children? The questions seemed infinite but Jill needed to decide how to save the company.