Q. You are a senior human resource executive for a large multinational industry with individual plants in Malaysia, Thailand also Pakistan also with suppliers in Asia. A new CEO has been hired who is an advocate for rights of foreign workers, staking his personal reputation on the ethical also humane treatment of the organization's also suppliers' employees.
The senior human resource executive conducted an inspection of international operations also became concerned with less positive treatment of foreign workers in one of the organization's plants also in a supplier's factory. The human resource executive communicated these concerns to the CEO, who asked which the human resource executive delay taking any action until after an upcoming shareholders' meeting, to avoid a possible stock price drop also negative impact on senior management bonuses (including the human resource executive's bonus).
1. Illustrate what are the ethical issues in this situation?