Charlie Davis Case Summary

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Should Charlie Davis cover for Alex Adams mistake of not locking up the restaurant because they are best friends and Adams needs this job? This ethical issue conflicts between the principles of role duty and egoism. Role duty is knowing and acting according to your specific duties as a professional and carrying out your job description. While egoism is “me first” and it promotes one’s own best interest over anyone else’s. In this ethical issue, Davis’s role duty is conflicting with Adams’ egoism. Charlie Davis has his own job that he needs to worry about and fulfilling his duties as followed in his job description while conflicting with Alex Adams’ egoism. Alex Adams just wants to protect his own job, even though he didn’t fulfill his duties that ultimately may have led to robbery, rather than tell the truth to his boss like he should. In this case study, Adams is violating veracity. He has the duty to tell the truth, but he is lying to cover himself as well as trying to get Davis to lie. He is also violating his respect for …show more content…

The first solution to this issue could be for Charlie Davis to lie for Alex Adams. In result to this solution, they would both keep their jobs as well as their friendship. If they pursue this solution, there is always the chance of Keller finding out the truth or Charlie Davis would have to live with the guilt of lying to his boss for as long as he works there. In this solution, altruism is upheld, while it violates role duty, veracity and lawfulness. Altruism is upheld in the solution because Davis his putting his friend first, regardless if it puts himself in harm’s way. It violates role duty because Adams’ did not do as he was supposed to then pushing Davis to follow suit by lying. Veracity is violated because he is not telling the truth and lawfulness is also violated because he is not obeying the law to not

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