An american executive of a multinational home-furnishings chain finds that one of the company's production units in philippines employs children to work in its factories. however, most of the children employed at the factory are orphans who will be sold as forced labor or pushed into prostitution, if they lose their jobs. the executive finds that all the available alternatives seem ethically unacceptable. in this example, the american executive faces the tragedy of the commons. a veil of ignorance. an ethical dilemma. the free-rider problem.

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Ishaan Mckay

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15 April, 11:46

An american executive of a multinational home-furnishings chain finds that one of the company's production units in philippines employs children to work in its factories. however, most of the children employed at the factory are orphans who will be sold as forced labor or pushed into prostitution, if they lose their jobs. the executive finds that all the available alternatives seem ethically unacceptable. in this example, the american executive faces the tragedy of the commons. a veil of ignorance. an ethical dilemma. the free-rider problem.

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Valeria Poole · Answer 1

The situation in which the executive finds that all the available alternatives seem ethically unacceptable but must make decision means the american executive faces ethical dilemma. It is a decision-making problem in which neither of the possibilities is unambiguously acceptable or preferable.