Assignment
Ruskin manufacturing and Parker Products are two business entities enjoying relationships as the suppliers and the buyer respectively. In this scenario, deadline, Ruskin Manufacturing Company had the opportunity to provide small machines in perfect order to Parker Products. In this sense, Ruskin Manufacturing promised to do that on the 10th of the month in context. In the process of interaction between the two business entities, Parker had already extended the deadline on one occasion. The head of the quality control had great faith and confidence in meeting the deadline in relation to the delivery of the small machines. Unfortunately, he learns by 8th on the shortage of the new component machines within the supplies. He decides to evaluate the adoption and implementation of two crucial alternatives or options.
The first option during this scenario focuses on the approval of breaking up and regrinding the remaining elements of supply undergoing replacement. This alternative was achievable within the deadline, but the speed of its execution would have increased the level of impurities in the process. The other option was to approve the application of the old components to cover for the new components. In this case, the product would have the ability to function effectively without the detection by Parker Products. Although, the company would not obtain the ordered supplies, the products would act towards meeting the standards for durability and safety. In relation to meeting the 10th deadline, the head of quality control (Tim Vinson) adopts the second option without detection of the difference by any relevant entity apart the company itself (Ruskin Manufacturing).
The scenario presents unethical aspect of the organization, Ruskin, in dealing with Parker products with reference to the supplies of the small machines. This relates to the second option in handling the shortage of the new products or components just two days before the deadline. In the execution of their roles and duties, in relation to the public interaction, it is ideal for engineers, and relevant geologists to uphold elements of ethics (Ferell p. 173). Engineers and geologists must have the ability to understand and act in good faith towards the adoption and implementation of the code of ethics. BC Code of Ethics promotes the need to operate in relation to the safety and durability. The second option by the entity, Ruskin, in replacing the lacking new components with the old ones ensures the ethics of safety and durability in the context of standards (Miller et al, p. 270).
This ensures that production and delivery of the supplies must focus on enhancing the safety of the individuals taking part. The other entity must enjoy quality products thus the need to ensure durability standards in the production and processing of the products. Despite meeting this element code of ethics in relation to the BC Code of Ethics, Ruskin Manufacturing entity fails to promote honesty, integrity, and openness in its interaction with Parker Products during the ordeal. According to the BC Code of Ethics, members and licenses of the code must operate in good faith towards the enhancement of honesty, truth, fairness, courtesy, and integrity in production and distribution of the crucial products. Violation of this code of ethics though failure in meeting the integrity and honesty elements in production and distribution is a hindrance to the enhancement of reputation of the company (Freeman p. 259). Despite the failure in finding out the essence of the supplied products, Ruskin Manufacturing entity is in the process of denting its reputation thus the adoption of unethical methods to meet the demands of the other party, in this case Parker Products.
Works Cited
Alberta Code of Ethics. AR 150/99 Sched; 37/2003, 8/2005
Jennings, Marianne. Business: Its Legal, Ethical, and Global Environment. Mason, OH: South- Western Cengage Learning, 2012. Print.
Ferrell, O C, John Fraedrich, and Linda Ferrell. Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making and Cases. Mason, OH: South-Western/Cengage Learning, 2013. Print.
Miller, Roger L. R, and Gaylord A. Jentz. Fundamentals of Business Law: Summarized Cases. Mason, Ohio: South-Western Cengage Learning, 2013. Print.
Freeman, Lee A, and A G. Peace. Information Ethics: Privacy and Intellectual Property. Hershey, PA: Information Science Publ, 2005. Print.
