The book “Decisive Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right” written by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. real-life situation, involves the production and marketing of RU-486, the pill French abortifacient. The real situation involved various stakeholder groups in the decision to produce and market the French abortion pill; Roussel-Uclaf, a pharmaceutical company, and Dr. Sakiz were making the decision. Dr. Sakiz was a physician with a long-standing personal commitment to RU-486. He would make the final decision on introducing the drug. Dr. Sakiz helped develop the chemical compound; on which the RU-486 was based. “In a business context, customers, investors and shareholders, employees, suppliers, government agencies, communities and many others who have a “stake” or claim in some aspect of a company's products, operations, activities, markets, industry and outcomes are known as stakeholders. These groups are influenced by businesses, but they also have the ability to influence businesses; therefore, the relationship between businesses and their stakeholders is a two-way street negative press generated by special interest groups forces a company to change its practices” (Ferrell 31-158). Thus, the real-life situation of the French abortion pill, the stakeholders were; -abortion, women, Hoechst, Roussel-Uclaf employees, the French government, the French Ministry of Health and China Each stakeholder has their own fundamental values underlying their respective positions; some may have the same core values or have their own core values, not share them. The pharmaceutical industry and its employees would win and lose in the decision that would be made. I...... half of the document ......mma in a deontological way but completely opposite to Dr. Sakiz's deontological approach. Those were the stakeholder groups and their core values, involved in the real-life situation of the French Abortion Pill: RU-486. The dilemma Dr. Sakiz faced between his personal values and those of the company; basically making a decision between right choices and right choices, just as the title of the case suggests. And how he managed to deal with the dilemma he was facing. I have stated my perspective on this real life situation; if I were in Dr. Sakiz's shoes, what would I have done and why would I have done it. Works CitedFerrell, OC "Business Ethics." Ethical decision making and cases. Michele Rhoades, Joanne Dauksewicz. Mason: South-Western Cengage Learning, 2011. Print.Badaracco Jr., Joseph L. “Defining the Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right.” Press.
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