apply utilitarian ethics to an organizational problem. In order to be best prepared and perform well on the case assignments, please be surethat you complete the Background Information readings and the SLP before completing your Case.

Read the following excerpt concerning the philosopher Jeremy Bentham, the father of utilitarian ethics:http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/utilitarianism-history/#JerBen

Please read the following case study from the Markkala Center for Applied Ethics:

http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/supplier.html

Here is the actual outcome:

http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/supplier_comments.html

The key aspects of this assignment that should be covered in your paper include the following:

• What do you believe is/are the key utilitarian ethical problem(s) confronting the supplier/transistor company in this Case?
• What advice do you believe Jeremy Bentham would have given the supplier company?
• Apply Steps A through D of the Utility Test to the above case. Be sure that you carefully document each step in the process.
• Choose one of the following five tests: Rights Test, Exceptions Test, Choices Test, Justice Test, or the Common Good Test. Click here: http://ethicsops.com/EthicsTestsLinks.php. Now, apply the test you’ve chosen to the above case. In your paper, be sure that you have fully discussed your decisions at each step.
• Compare and contrast the results you have obtained from the Utility Test with the additional test you have selected. Which of the two tests is most informative, and why?