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When talking to the CEO of a pharmaceutical company you are concerned that this company is not sufficiently prepared in case things go wrong and thus begins a crisis : a) Describe 4 of the 5 information priorities of a high reliability organization that help to prevent a crisis (in this case the crisis being that a vaccine is found to be harmful to patients) from happening. Be sure to give examples that relate to a vaccine causing more harm than good. (4 marks)

b) You are aware that people are desperate to receive booster shots so they can go back to normal life again and you hear that bribe money is being offered for access to the vaccine. You want to maintain the company’s high ethical standards. Based on the studies conducted by Mazar & Ariely (2006), how could you enhance the employees’ self-awareness and why might this enhance his or her desire to behave ethically with respect to accepting the bribe (4 marks)?

c) You expect that all employees will have a minimal understanding of Utilitarianism, The Ethics of Rights, and Feminist Ethics. Explain each of these theories and how each one could be applied to either justify either not accepting a bribe for vaccines or to justify accepting the bribe (6 marks).