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Identify a current event or contemporary social issue that involves ethical values. Your issue must be broad enough to sustain deep philosophical analysis and must have relevance to your community. A good choice of issue is one that (1) involves a decision that must be made that involves competing ethical values and considerations, (2) includes with various available options about which reasonable people can disagree, (3) concretely affects people’s lives, and (4) might be influenced by external and internal factors such as social norms, oppression, religious and other personal beliefs, socially-imposed constraints (such as laws), and physical limitations. Issues that only affect a few people or have only a minor impact are probably too narrow. Issues that you are not open to examining with an open mind will also not work well for this assignment. For some topic suggestions, you might want to browse the website of a reputable news organization or review some political blogs you follow.
Identify at least two news articles on your topic located using the South University Online Library and/or reputable news outlets. Make sure that the articles you choose present at least two different accounts of the values that should be considered in addressing the issue and include information and facts that you can use to develop your arguments and analysis. If you cannot locate two news articles on your topic, or if all of the articles share the same perspective, you should choose another topic. You should cite the two articles using correct APA citation.
Explain at least one ethical theory from your assigned readings. Cite support from the primary text selections in the chapter as well as authoritative secondary sources such as the course text and online lectures.
Analyze the issue using the theory of ethics. For example, you might discuss utilitarianism, deontology, virtue/care ethics, or existentialism.
Contrast this analysis with the approach a second theory would take. For instance, you might contrast deontology with utilitarianism by distinguishing duty from the principle of utility, or compare care ethics and existentialism by discussing the relative approaches to intersubjectivity

Please follow all the guidelines of this assignment and please do not use yourself to discuss.

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Reebok India case
 A fraud of Rs 8.7 billion alleged by Reebok India which was done by Subhinder Singh 
Prem, former MD (Managing director) and Vishnu Bhagat its former COO (Chief Operating 
Officer). When this issue came into notice, Reebok had lodged a First Information report stating 
that both former officers had stolen Reebok inventories and set up many warehouses which were 
not legal and against the norm; they were termed as secret warehouses, and fudged accounts and 
got involved in fabricated sales to cause billions of dent to the company. 
 Sales were fabricated to these warehouses to increase sales in order to gain lucrative 
incentives by these two former officers. Rent was also paid allegedly by some other company 
known as Shivam Enterprises. (Press Trust of India, 2012)
 Mismanagement in corporation of Reebok led to this scam was commented by many 
investigating agencies such as Income Tax department which is under Finance ministry, SFIO 
under corporate affair ministry and the wings of economic offenses.  Also undefined planning, 
operations and governance of business were not managed properly. Inflated bills were recorded.  
This was a violation of Company act guidelines, And it had 1.4 billion tax evasion which Income 
tax department is making sure that company does not claim “bad-debt”.  (Press Trust of India, 
2012)
Ethical Issues 
1. Frauds reported previously which was against the senior officials of Reebok, but being 
the managing director of the company Mr. Singh did not take any legal action or 
terminated him, he just said that he sought permission to report the fraud to auditors. That 
does not nullify Mr. Singh’s responsibility as being the head of the department. (Yadav,  
2012)
2. Generally in India, when organizations do have rejects sales, a percentage cut of the same 
is absorbed by the management,

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