Ethical Analysis assignment!

A Case for Ethics Analysis

You are a U.S. citizen currently on a three-year assignment as the IT manager for your

company’s Armenian manufacturing plant. The company is a U.S.-based Fortune 1000 company,

and the Armenian plant employs 1,500 workers. The plant budgeted for 250 new computers and

associated software to replace all computers over six years old.

The cost of the software licenses is $125,000 (USD). Unfortunately, the plant has been hit hard

by the worldwide financial crises, and you have been told that your department must reduce its

budget by $100,000. You been focusing on two options. The first is not to purchase all the

software licenses needed and instead make illegal copies of existing software. The software

piracy rate in Armenia is 90%. The second is to terminate the employment of IT employee. You

have identified who would be terminated based on their recent job performance and their

relatively low level of anticipated future work activity. What would you do?