Personal Ethics in Business essay worth 40%!!! After we studied the theories from the book "The Ethics of Leadership" by "Joanne B. Ciulla" , your assignment is to write a compare and contrast essay...

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Analysis of a Case Study
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The pivotal endeavor of this paper is to make a thorough analysis of a case study through
comparing and contrasting different theories of ethics to justify the ultimate ethical decision that
must be taken in order to do away with the dilemma which has been revealed through the case.
In order to meet the need of this paper some specific theories related to ethics are going to be
included. The analysis, comparison and contrast that will be made in this paper will be based on
the theories of Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, Bernard Williams, John Stuart Mill, and Max Weber.
The case study is based upon the ethical dilemma of whether or not to take the corneas,
from the organization Doctors Without Borders, direly needed to treat the ten blind people in a
camp that has been established by a small aid agency in Congo to give care to around fifty
people who have fled the various civil wars in the region. The aid agency worked with myriads
of non-governmental organizations including C.A.R.E, Doctors Without Borders, Christian
Children’s Fund, etc. To render help to the suffering populace of the Congo region the aid
agency established a camp to accommodate fifty people who have suffered a lot from the civil
wars of the concerned region and have fled those wars to barely exist. The condition in the camp
was stable until a deadly parasite, dwelling in the water, started affecting the eyes of the
inhabitants of the camp. The parasite did affect the eyesight of ten people in the camp including
children and they were made blind by the infection. Now the aid agency is desperately in need of
corneas as only the cornea transplantation can save the victims of the parasite from further
sufferings. The agency contacted Doctors Without Borders for help and the latter informed that
they will be providing two ophthalmologists in the area soon but they will be needing corneas for
transplantation which is impossible to get in Africa. The agency, within few days, received a call
from the area director of Doctors Without Borders who informed the availability of twenty
corneas which can be exchanged by a Chinese agency in lieu of a truck and ten cases of medical
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supplies. It was also informed that the corneas were donated by a wealthy Hong Kong
usinessman who bought those corneas from a middle man who buys body parts for transplants
from prisons. The dilemma occu
ed by learning that these body parts are actually gathered
through unethical execution of criminals by co
upt prison wardens who have developed the
process as a means of earning huge profits. Now the question is whether or not it is ethical for
the aid agency to take the corneas from the Chinese agency. The discussion will now tend to
analyze the important principles which should aid in the decision making process and which
decision should be taken as a means for doing the greatest good. The analysis will also include
the ethical duties of a person who is given the charge to handle the situation along with the
identification of the major stakeholders. The long term consequences of the decision should also
een incorporated within the discussion and the contrast between the right decision and the
wrong one will be pointed out. But all these efforts will be rendered through discussion the issue
from the perspectives of the theories propounded by the eminent personalities whose names have
een mentioned earlier.
The analysis will begin with the discussion about the action which would have been taken
y Aristotle if he would have been involved in the concerned issue. The virtue ethicist Aristotle
would have judged the situation from the perspective of some ideal character traits which are
eing derived from natural internal tendencies but that are needed to be nurtured. Virtues,
according to theory of virtue ethics, “are habits that form out character.” (Ciulla, p.53) Any
human being, according to this theory of ethics, must flourish and to flourish in a positive
manner the specific habits must be practiced. Hence, if Aristotle would have been the leader of
the small aid agency he would try only to get engaged in ethical activities and should try to foster
ethical behavior within the organization. Through the amalgamation of the concepts of
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truthfulness, justice, generosity and self-control, Aristotle would have judged that whether or not
it would be wise to obtain the twenty corneas which have been gathered by executing people not
for serving justice but for means of earning money. But though the entire process is unethical,
Aristotle would have pondered over the actions that “should express co
ect reason.” (Ciulla,
p.57) On one hand he would have considered not to take the corneas as they have been obtained
y methodically killing people in prisons for selling their body parts in lieu of money. He would
have considered rejecting the deal also because if the corneas are being taken then it would mean
to get involved in the cycle of unethical actions. But on the other hand, Aristotle, being the leader
of an aid agency rendering service to suffering human beings, would have also considered that
logically helping the blind people by gifting them their eyesight should be the greatest good and
hence, anything needed to render such good must not be considered unethical. Aristotle might
have thought about all the stakeholders in respect of this case including himself, his agency, the
ten blind persons, the organization Doctors Without Borders, the Chinese agency, the rich
usinessman who donated the corneas, the middle person from whom the corneas were
purchased by the middleman and the prison wardens who sell the body parts of the executed
criminals unethically. Through the analysis of the role of each and every stakeholders Aristotle
would have found that the corneas were obtained from those persons who were punished for
their unethical and immoral deeds and now these corneas can be utilized to give sight to those
lind persons in the camp and so, he would have thought it to be ethical to help the blind persons
who are the major stakeholders in this case. As being the leader of an aid agency Aristotle would
have practiced the right habit of helping people in need and this continuous habit of helping
others would have helped him to decide to take the corneas from the Chinese agency as these
corneas were necessary for those little children along with some adults in the camp to see the
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light of this earth again. And helping the helpless would have been considered by Aristotle as the
greatest virtue and hence, a truck and ten cases of medical supplies might have exchanged for the
corneas needed for the transplantation.
The discussion will now analyze the situation from the point of view of Immanuel Kant.
Kant proposed the...