Length
This case is 23 pages in length.

Abstract

This series of cases focuses on the rights of employees. These rights include the right to work safe from bodily and/or emotional harm; free from double standards; free from firing as retaliation to "whistle-blowing."

The issue of personal ethics is also introduced. Case 6.6 discusses the topic of moral responsibility an industry has toward the consumer. Case 6.7 discusses the concept of a corporation's responsibility toward others in the industry with whom it does business.

This case includes 9 individual case studies with discussion questions for each:

        Case 6.1 Catherine Wagenseller: The Fired Killjoy

        Case 6.2 NASA and the Space Shuttle Booster Rockets

        Case 6.3 Orders of Shoot To Kill

        Case 6.4 Beech-Nut and the No-Apple-Juice Apple Juice

        Case 6.5 New Era - If it Sounds Too Good to Be True, it is Too Good to Be True

        Case 6.6 Dow Corning and the Silicone Implants: Questions of Safety and Disclosure

        Case 6.7 The Changing Time Cards

        Case 6.8 The Extension of Benefits to Partners of Homosexual Employees

        Case 6.9 Cheap Labor: Children, Sweat Shops, and the Fifty-Hour Work Week

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