Business Law

Response

My preliminary opinion of Mr. Geffken's assessment of Benji's case was that of disdain and opposition. However, upon further analysis of my colleague's assessment, I found his apparent systemic approach to this case stimulating. Mr. Geffken's subjectivity is that of a pro-business advocate, who "tends to glorify the presumed efficiency of for profit enterprise" (Nelson, 2010). Accordingly, I would consider him to be a realist, taking business for what it is, business. Mr. Geffken's premise is that Benji should accept the position because he can be a resolute Christian by changing the corporate culture of New Gen Health Sciences. This is opposite to my assessment, but my colleague makes staunch arguments to back his premise. My colleague's assessment of Benji is based off the capitalistic nature of business, ethical dilemmas when accepting a job, and taking a proactive approach as a businessperson and Christian.

My colleague has an accurate assessment of Benji's case. First, he understands the importance of being revenue driven, and that companies have certain cultures that may have to be conformed to as a new employee. In the case of Benji, my colleague points out that yes, integrity was discussed when Benji spoke to the recruiter, but it was not a main focus of the company. The primary focus was to maintain a capitalistic structure to the business and ameliorate any integrity issues with the use of attorneys. However, Integrity can be viewed in many ways, and Robert Solomon (1999) uniquely observes, "The word integrity means "wellness", wholeness of virtue, wholeness as a person, wholeness in the sense of being an integral part of something larger than the person - the community, the corporation, society, humanity, the cosmos" (p. 38). From this quote, and the ideals of my colleague, Benji can achieve wholeness as a Christian and businessperson alike by taking the job with New Gen. New Gen wants Benji to reach out to fellow Christians to expand the sought after market. In regard to this new business endeavor, my colleague states, "From a purely capitalistic standpoints, New Gen's business strategy does not seem unethical". Therefore, where I may see this as an unethical approach to business, Mr. Geffken believes the position that Benji would be taking is in not unethical.

Also, in regard to ethics, my colleague does not believe that New Gen's product sales to distributors were unethical. In his opinion, if a few companies go bankrupt, even if these companies are advent Christians; they signed a contract and know the extent of the business relationship. This point was overlooked in my assessment of the case and is pivotal to adequately assessing a business.

However, an ethical dilemma does occur for my colleague in the case of Benji in regard to moral standard