Global warming and environmental issues have become serious problems. Keeping this in mind, is it right deceive customers if your main motive is to save the environment and help save trees?

Mod 5- Ethics in Practice Cases A Little Green Lie Chapter 15 Q 1 Q4
I work for Telecommunication Company as a sales consultant. The environment is very competitive and as salespeople, we are always required to surpass our quotas and make money. Lately the company has decided to go green, which is good for the environment. However, the true motive behind the companys initiative is to save money on paper bills, as the managers have confessed to us. As a way of making us convert customers to paperless billing, they have factored paperless billing conversion into our metrics, which means that if we do not perform, we can be reprimanded or fired. One of the area managers suggested we tell customers that the company is no longer sending paper bills and that if they wish to still receive a paper bill, they will be charged a fee (which is completely false, paper bills are free to customers). I usually see customers fall for it and go paperless in order to save money, and the sales consultants who have applied this method are usually our top rankers. The manager said it is not really lying especially if you are helping selfish customers to help the environment.

Q1: Global warming and environmental issues have become serious problems. Keeping this in mind, is it right deceive customers if your main motive is to save the environment and help save trees? at least 60 words not to exceed 100 words

Q4: What would you do if you were in this position and what would be your motive behind it? 60 words not to exceed 100 words

Mod 6- Ethics in Practice Cases A Whistler-Blowers Windfall Chapter 17 Q1 And Q3
When the False Claims Act was instituted in 1863, the motivations of the government were pretty clear: penalize companies or people who defraud the government. When the government enacted higher potential rewards and easier filing procedures in 1986 and then again in 2009, the number of whistle-blower filings exploded, with annual filings nearly doubling over five years from 2009 to 2013. However, something else exploded as wellthe growth of serial whistle-blowers.

Serial whistle-blowers file suit after suit in the hopes of landing the big one. Often these are health-carerelated cases. Since 1986, over 25 people or groups fall into this category of serial whistle-blowers with five suits or more filed in the last two decades. The phenomenon is also reflected in the number of frivolous lawsuits that do not result in any settlement or judgment, which were 74 percent of suits filed from 1987 to 2010, according to the Justice Department.

One investigation into a serial whistle-blower found that a physician who received $38 million, and was praised by a federal prosecutor for this good citizenry, had filed 12 suits against different laboratories with a string of allegations surrounding unfair drug pricing practices and false performance claims. While the physician claims that all his filings were based on nonpublic documents and his original sources, many have been thrown out or abandoned because of deficient allegations. In 2016, that same physician was due to receive another $59 million from another price-fixing allegation against a large pharmaceutical company. However, the government continues to see value in the whistle-blowing incentives, particularly in the health-care industry. From 2009 to 2013, it collected $12.3 billion in civil recoveries.

Q1: Is it appropriate to file more than one whistle-blower claim? ( min 60 words not to exceed 100)

Q3: Beyond the whistle-blower, who benefits from the pursuit and settlement of these claims? ( min 60 words not to exceed 100)

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