Gabriela Rico Flores
Intro To Business
Mr. Garnier
23 June, 2010
Critical Thinking Unit 3 Making decisions for a company’s future is really hard especially when your company it’s not doing well financially speaking. Every decision you make could either save your company or take it to bankruptcy. In many occasions this decisions are based on ethical matters. This means doing something you know is wrong but that will save your company. Now something “wrong” doesn’t mean you are going to go bomb the bank or kill someone, it’s more like conducting low-quality business by not providing the service you promised your customers. In this case, I have five jobs that need to be completed in order to make payroll and basically keep the business running. I’ve been informed these jobs can be delivered but they all have flaws. These flaws are not very significant and I know I can easily lie to my customers and tell them the defects were there when the furniture was brought in. I obviously know this is unethical, as I’ll be making profit for an incomplete service. Yet this is the only way to save my company. Before making a decision of this magnitude, I would inform myself a little further, this way I can make an educated decision. First, I will ask the foreman if there’s any way they can hurry things up to try and complete the five jobs without any flaws. If there’s no way I can accomplish this I would check each job individually and make a price adjustment so that the customer