Written ASSIGNMENT #3 Now that you have some practice, based on the work in you in your group, as to the content and process for doing a SWOT analysis, please complete the following written assignment

Running Head: ETHICAL DILEMMA

Ethical Dilemma

Cambridge College

Amazon is one of the largest e-commerce companies across the world. The company has been in existence over the years, and they have made great progress. They managed to secure a larger market gap, and they have established roots all over the world. The company started as an e-book to one of the largest online sellers across the world. Amazon has always come up with the best strategies that have enabled them to be on top of the list and offered the best services and products. In this case, the first thing to consider are stakeholders of the company who play a significant role in ensuring that everything becomes a success (Bower & Paine, 2017). The stakeholders are people that they are affected by some of the decisions being made by the company.

The first thing is to understand who stakeholders are and the role they play in ana organization; for instance, Amazon has got various stakeholders who are affected by the decisions being made by the company, and some of these stakeholders’ impact on how the company is making decisions. The company has got various stakeholders, including the senior management and the directors of the company, employees, customers, supply chain partners, and the community. Each stakeholder, in this case, has got the special role they play in the organization. For instance, the senior management and the directors have the role of ensuring the company makes more profit, and the company is always on the right track. They also come up with various ways on how they can enhance customer innovation at all times. In this case, the employees have the responsibility of ensuring that everything is done on time and the customers get their deliveries on time.

The supply chain partners also have a got an essential role they play in the company. They always ensure that the company has got the right products on time. The other key stakeholders who ensure the company's continuity are the customers who make orders for the products and buy them without the customers in this case. Then the company cannot function anymore or make any progress (Favre, 2007). The other stakeholder for the company is the community members who ensure that the company functions well without any difficulty. They also come up with the right way in which they dispose of some of the packaging products used by the company (Fisher, 2014).

There are various ethical issues that the company faces daily. but the other thing is that the company has got a better advantage as they are ethically right when it comes to paying their taxes. In one way or another, the company ensures that the taxes are always paid on time, and they follow all the regulations set up by the country. But it has also been stated that the company does not follow the right regulations when it comes to paying taxes. They pay fewer taxes to the government. It is a key thing that needs to be considered as the company thinks that they are doing the right thing by avoiding paying their taxes on time to the government. According to the theories presented in class, it is evident that the companies' ethical dilemma is something that the companies face. In his case, an ethical dilemma can be stated to be some of the things that the company avoids considering that ends up ruining their reputation or stopping activities being conducted by the company.

In this case, I will describe ethics. One of the conflicting issues that create an ethical dilemma within the amazon company is the fact that the company does not pay the right taxes. Another ethical dilemma that the company faces, in this case, is the fact that the workers are not treated well, and they are poorly paid. It is one of the key things that makes it difficult for the company to deliver well to its clients. The management lowly treats one of the conflicting issues in these cases its ten facts that the company does not pay enough taxes and the workers. It is something that names it difficult for the company to achieve its set goals. In this case, I used the proactive standard to determine the ethical dilemma that the company is facing and some of the key issues that are affecting the progress of the company. The issue became an ethic after the company failed multiple times to pay their taxes, yet they were earning so much profit. The other thing is that the company failed to treat or pay its employees the right way (Davis et al. 2016).

Several things need to be considered in this case so that the ethical issue can be addressed. The first thing is that the company has the role of ensuring that all its stakeholders are involved in the process of decision making. They also have the role of ensuring that they are treated right and not miss anything. The company also needs to consider the role played by the company and the workers in this case and come up with ways on how they can be treated the right way. The company can also consider the socially responsible way, such as the accommodative approach that will help engage all the stakeholders and ensure that the company has a better reputation. When focusing on corporate social responsibility, the company is always focused on ensuring that they offer the best service, and the people are satisfied at all times. The company can achieve all is by ensuring that the stakeholder is involved at all times, and the company can meet the set deadlines and pay the taxes as per the law (Amazon. 2020).

References

Amazon (2020). About Amazon. Amazon. Retrieved from https://www.amazon.com/#01E4JJ6RTA4E0M6W2WEQ6SHC58

Bower, J. L., & Paine, L. S. (2017). The error at the heart of corporate leadership. HBR’S 10 MUST, 165.

Davis, A. K., Guenther, D. A., Krull, L. K., & Williams, B. M. (2016). Do socially responsible firms pay more taxes? The accounting review, 91(1), 47-68.

Ethical Consumer (2020). Amazon.com Inc. Ethical Consumer. Retrieved from https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/company-profile/amazoncom-inc

Favre, E. (2007). Online auction houses: how trademark owners protect brand integrity against counterfeiting. JL & Pol'y, 15, 165.

Fisher, J. M. (2014). Fairer shores: Tax has ns, tax avoidance, and corporate social responsibility. BUL, Rev., 94, 337.