Read the following case study and then write an analysis and recommendation:
You’re a management consultant who has been asked by Green Company to help design an ethics communication and training program for all Green Company employees. Your meetings to date have been with the head of human resources, and your contract with the company has been negotiated with him. Once the papers have been signed, you begin your research and are quickly stymied by Green’s corporate counsel. He says you will not be allowed to ask employees about ethical dilemmas that have occurred at Green. He specifically asks you to get your information from other sources such as press accounts of problems in the industry, or from other organizations you’ve worked with. In addition, the head of human resources has told you that you’ll be unable to meet the three most senior executives because they’re busy negotiating a large acquisition. You will have access to other high‐level managers who can tell you what they think the seniors want. You’re instructed to write a code of conduct for the company and a mission statement, and to prepare presentations for the senior managers to give to employees sometime next month on corporate expectations and values.
In your analysis and recommendation,
Identify the problems presented by this case based on what you know about developing ethical cultures and programs.
Explain why you think the corporate counsel has responded in this way and what your response to him will be, if any.
Define your ethical obligations as a consultant, if any.
Explain how you will proceed.
Support your analysis and recommendations with evidence from at least three scholarly and/or credible sources in addition to textbook, industry reports, and articles from the University of Arizona Global Campus Library. Be sure to include any links to professional websites used as references or to access company information.
Textbook source: Treviño, L. K., & Nelson, K. A. (2021). Managing business ethics: Straight talk about how to do it right (8th ed.). Wiley.