Case #3

You are a company manager in new product development, and were recently hired by a large chemical company to oversee the construction of production facilities. The plant to manufacture the solvent was built on land adjacent to the East River. Chemical Corp. had already applied for and received the necessary permit to dump waste materials from the process into the river. The EPA has granted Chemical Corp. a permit to release more waste in the river than they thought was allowed. They can either add a new extension, which would cost money, but would drastically reduce waste. Or the could ignore the proposal and follow the high guidelines and go against what their company stands for

In this situation there are two different responses
The company could spend the money to build a new expansion to their factory. This would drastically reduce their waste and bring them way above EPA standards. This decision would go hand in hand with their publicly stated philosophy.
On the other hand they just found out that theEPA set really low standards for their waste deposits. They could follow this new guideline and not have to spend any money. But this would be ignoring their publicly stated theology and going against what they believe in.

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