311 Week 7 A / For WIZARD KIM

The maximum point value for each item is stated in parentheses. Actual points will be awarded by your instructor with feedback.

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1. (5 pts) State the name of the company you have selected for your Week 7 Research Paper.

Purdue Pharmaceutical -The paper will major the discussion on the Opioid lawsuits concerning ethic and business laws.

2. (5 pts) The company you have chosen to write about (no. 1 above) made a business decision --chose a course of action – which adversely affected others as well as the company.

The company was faced with an ethical dilemma. As you have learned, an ethical dilemma is a conflict between alternatives where neither alternative is desirable. Choosing either one will compromise something. Each choice will have its downside: it could compromise ethics, cause ethical problems, cause harm, raise difficult questions, or otherwise lead to an undesirable situation. Ideally, the decision maker would do both acts or neither, but he cannot. He has to choose and can only choose one. The dilemma is being confronted with these undesirable choices and having to choose one. In a single, well-crafted sentence, state the ethical dilemma that was presented in your chosen company’s situation.

Purdue Pharmaceutical is in a dilemma to decide the continuation of its Purdue production—stopping production would stop the alleged deaths and addiction but still paint a picture of being the real cause of the issues, a perspective that the company denied alleging the problem to customer drug misuse

3. (5 pts) Name and briefly define the ethical framework you will discuss in your Research Paper as an alternative to Milton Friedman's free market ethics.

The common good ethical approach—According to this theory, any firm, whether commercialized or not, should base their decision making on their implication to the direct and most vulnerable clients.

4. (15 pts) List the three (3) additional legal topics you will discuss in your Research Paper with respect to your selected company. Remember, none of these should relate to ethics, antitrust or consumer protection issues. Be specific. Simply stating “torts,” for example, does not define a topic. Which type of tort?

1. Tort on labour and employment

2. Tort on bankruptcy

3. Tort on healthcare insurance

5. (70 pts) Starting on the next page under the heading, References, list in an APA formatted Reference list, at least seven (7) credible references you will use for your Week 7 Research Paper. (It is understood you might add more references on the final paper or that you might need to amend some references.) Use APA Guidelines. This list should look like the Reference list as it appears at the end of an APA paper.

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