Question

The year is 2020. You just got your dream job as a stock broker on Wall Street. They gave you a nice signing bonus and you are making a lot of money. You also have the opportunity to make a large year-end bonus if you meet your sales quota. But your Boss has a reputation for firing new employees that don’t reach those sales goals. Timing could not have been better because your student loans are thru the roof and your parents were just threatening to kick you out of the basement. You buy yourself a couple new suits, rent your apartment in Manhattan and show up 30 minutes early to work ready to start your career. Your Boss, Mr. Money bags, has you start cold calling people to get them to buy stock in TEXLA corporation. He says that TEXLA is a great new company that is working on a new drug that might cure cancer. He failed to tell you that the President of Texla is his brother-in-law. You start making sales calls and find out that the easiest people to convince to buy the stock are senior citizens. The first year you make reach your sales quota and receive a 1 Million Dollars bonus which you immediately invest in TEXLA stock because it has been doing so well. You also invested all of your parent’s retirement savings in TEXLA. Later that year you accidently receive an email that was addressed to Mr. Moneybags from his brother-in-law the President of TEXLA which informed him that the testing shows their new drug actually makes cancer worse. You are the only one who has this information and know that once this information hits the internet the value of the stock will drop to ZERO but no one will ever find out that you have this inside information. You also remembered from your awesome business law class that it is illegal to use “Inside Information” to benefit yourself or your clients. Your Boss will lose his investment, you will lose your investment, your parent’s retirement savings will be lost along with all of those senior citizens that listened to your advice. You only have an hour before the news will hit the press which means you can’t call everyone. What do you do????? Identify the ethical dilemma(s) in this situation. a. Use an ethical decision making model to determine the right course of action to take in this situation.

Answer 1

The decision making model for ethical dilemmas may follow the following step by step process

1)Identify and define problem

2)Take advice and suggestions

3)Search for alternatives

4)Select the best alternative

5)Implement the alternative

6)Evaluate the alternative.

1.In the above mentioned case the main problem is that the information of Texlas drug not getting successful trail testing is know to us only.So the ethical dilemma is what to do before information gets viral as all my family members and I had invested in Texla Corporation.If we use information and sell the stock it would be against the ethics.

2.The best thing can be done is to talk to Mr Money bags about the issue and concerned companies higher authorities.

3.a)There can be various ways to handle the problem as to hold the information going to market and wait for another test of drugs after certain modification.

b)Nothing can be done let the information go to the market as the investor should be first aware before making an Investment which was not taken care before investment.right tools should be used for analysis the risk before making investments.

4.The best alternative is to know whether company is going to perform any further test to modify results if yes the stocks can be hold for the future period of time.

5.Discuss with Mr Moneybags to overcome the situation and minimise loss due the the prevailing situation.

6.Track the information from company regarding trails and outcomes.