This paper considers the ethical dilemmas in the Priya Blue case.
1. What is a stakeholder?
? A stakeholder is a person or group of people who can affect or are affected by an action or policy.
2. Who are your stakeholders as the owner of the Norway?
? Environmentalists
? Myself, my employees, my BOD.
? My family, the families of my employees, the families of my BOD.
? My stockholders
? Consumers of seafood taken from areas where materials from Alana may "infect"
? Workers of Priya Blue and their families
? Owers and operators of Priya Blue
3. You sold the rights to break up the Norway to another company, Priya Blue Industries. Do you have any responsibility for how Priya Blue decides to break up the ship?
? Yes. The manner in which Priya Blue operates was deemed acceptable as a part of the sales contract, at least by implication.
4. Imagine that Priya Blue is not part of the case and that YOU ? as the CEO of Big Shipping Company ? are responsible for breaking down your own ship. Identify three possible strategies for breaking down the ship and the possible consequences of each strategy.
? Lowest cost. This strategy involves the process that is the lowest cost to the company, regardless of other considerations.
Consequence ? The problems here seem obvious. This strategy takes advantage of low cost labor in a country where environmental regulations are lax. The workers are at risk, both in the short- and long-terms. The workers families share that risk and are possibly ...