Leaders

Law/Ethics Conflict Paper


This paper will address an incident in an organization where law and ethics conflict. The paper will analyze one incident that has the decision/action being legal but is not ethical and the incident also has a decision/action being not legal but it is ethical. The paper will also examine the resolution for this incident.

Background Information
Jim has been an excellent CEO. He has worked with the organization for about twenty years. When he was first hired by the Board of Directors, he came into a very troubled organization that was struggling financially and structurally. The organization had always been in the entrepreneurial stage and has never really looked at itself as a business. Many of the rules were made up as you go or you called the good old boy attorney and asked his advice. There were no real policies or procedures. Auditors and attorneys were used often.

The organization was doing poorly when Jim was hired. Jim was actually...