Management focus on testing drugs among the developing countries across the globe

Management focus on testing drugs among the developing countries across the globe

According to research conducted after Pfizer drug testing in Nigeria, many questions were raised as to whether Pfizer’s experiment was justified. Additionally, there were many allegations, which indicated that Pfizer and his team continued to keep Nigerian children on Trovan in as much as they did not respond to the drug (Gerard, 2009). Pfizer failure to put the children to other alternative drugs was wrong considering the Nigeria crisis. His behavior was unethical. After the failure of the first drug test to the children, it would be risky to allow the company to proceed with the test. The life of children is precious. Therefore, conducting drug tests experiments on children might end up being risky or might lead to loss of lives among children.

In this case, a visiting American executive exposes a foreign subsidiary, which has employed a 12-year-old girl in its organization and against the organization’s law on child labor. The American executive asks the organization’s local manager for the immediate replacement of the child so that the child goes back to school. In as much as the local manager claims that the child would end up being a street child since she is an orphan, the whole of idea of employing the child in the organization is very wrong. After establishing the root causes of the situation, the North American executive would first try to build a consensus with the organization in order to release the child from the organization. After which, the executive would try to seek other alternatives to help the child for the sake of her own future. Being an orphan and no place to go, the best option would be to enroll the child into a children’s home. Enrolling the child into a children’s home would be the best option, which will then enable the child get elementary education and a place to call home (Assefa, 2008).

John Rawls’ concept on veil of ignorance

John Rawls’ concept on veil of ignorance generally reflects on the aspect of social concept, which plays an important role in formalizing economics concepts (Kukathas, 1990). The concept determines various issues such as slavery morality based on thought experiments. In simple terms, the concept blocks the knowledge that no individual knows the real burden and social cooperation benefit, which might befall him (Kukathas, 1990).

This concept effectively applies with reference to oil multinational organizations towards the protection of the environment. Most oil multinational organizations conduct their operations for their own benefits and ignoring the plight of the society. In most cases, oil organizations are ignorant of individual plight and the aspect of social cooperation while conducting their operations for economic benefits (Pogge, 2007). At the end of it, they tend to assume the consequences of their operations most of which befall them.

Outsourcing production

Outsourcing production to some of the developing nations where the cost of labor is generally low is sometimes a good move. It is obvious that no individual possess the right to any job unless the job is very competitive. Labor costs are generally a factor, which is small when it comes to outsourcing decisions (Sharan, 2011). This means that it would be unethical not to outsource in a situation when a different nation is able to provide better and effective services at lower prices. It is ethically defensible if a particular country is competitive and can conduct the productivity processes more cheaply unlike the home country. Alternatively, it would be unethical to allow a poor developing nation to continue production in a competitive market yet there are nations, which can do the process faster and cheaply. Outsourcing will allow strengthening of the economy in both nations. The aspect of outsourcing comes with the whole package. Therefore, facilitating payments after an outsourcing process is ethical.

Reference

Assefa, B., & Boyden, J. (2008). Combating child labour. Geneva: International Labour Office.

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Kukathas, C., & Pettit, P. (1990). Rawls: A theory of justice and its critics. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press.

Pogge, T. W. M., & Kosch, M. (2007). John Rawls: His life and theory of justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Sharan, V. (2011). International business: Concept, environment and strategy. Delhi: Dorling Kindersley (India)/Pearson.