Business Ethics

Business Ethics

Answer 1

In my judgment the possible utilitarian benefited from building the Caltex plan in South Africa in 1977. This may have been more important than correcting the moral rights of Apartheid. This does not mean that Apartheid in any way shape or form is yet justified or permissible. Therefore, it is true to the fact that the jobs offered in the plant may have been some of the best means available for blacks and other minorities in South Africa to care for their families. Whereas, freedom and full civil rights are critically important for everyone in order to achieve their full potential and claim in the place they are living. Beside this, there are other basic needs that must be satisfied before to look and anxious regarding the intellectual, spiritual and other personal rights and freedoms. It would be in favors for those people whose families are dying from hunger or starving to death.

Furthermore, the Caltex plan did have the authority to pressurize the government through political power in order to change the law. Financial investment means a great deal to a country. It was a shame for Caltex who was not considering the problem faced by the nation through deteriorating the laws of repulsive to humanity. However, it is also a fact that at the time the standard of South African Blacks and other minorities life was deplorable. They had poor homes, poor availability of food and poor educational programs. They were denied the right to pursue certain jobs, and were offered wages that were far below that of South African Whites. This needed the laws which supported their rights and their moral. For many of the South African Blacks, for whom so many outside the country took it upon themselves to speak, without their authority, they may have preferred to have one of the Caltex Jobs which offered them a better living wage and better job conditions. Just because some Black South Africans spoke of the need for absolute freedom, that may not have been the priority of the average South African Black and it seems equally disrespectful to assume that “we” are right about what they need in the “long run” (Collier & Wanderly, 2004),.

Answer 2

If I would have been the stockholder in Texaco or Standard I would have voted in favor of all three stockholder resolutions. I think that under utilitarian philosophies it may not necessarily have been the best choice for Caltex, Texaco, or Standard Oil to not open plants in South Africa, as a shareholder I would have to vote my personal conscience. Any kind of financial reward, such as helping to generate national income from the extraction of natural resources or building a national industry such as petroleum, seems unconscionable given the basic premise on which the government of South Africa survives.

The initial resolution demanded Caltex to finish the entire operation in South Africa until and unless the government ended Apartheid. My vote would be in favor for this ...