Case Study:- The Fitzgerald Machine Company is a $25MM per year custom metal fabrication shop. It has a work force of 30 machinists and 15 office personnel. Don Bradish was hired from Peptine Corporation three months ago as Fitzgerald’s production scheduler. His background includes an undergraduate industrial engineering degree and three years of purchasing experience with Peptine immediately after college. He is a good fit for Fitzgerald’s needs. He was hired by Jane Fitzgerald, Vice President of Operations and daughter of the company president. Recently the company has been having difficulty meeting delivery schedule deadlines. Don was hired to improve the company’s performance in on-time deliveries. So far, he has been learning the systems of the operations and studying possible solutions, but he has not yet determined the best course of action to recommend. On Friday, June 21, a $300,000 order, which had been in the shop for nearly two months, was scheduled for shipment. On the Wednesday before scheduled delivery, the customer called and asked that delivery be delayed due to a labor dispute and work stoppage at his location. Although he expected the strike to be settled within one week or less, he was concerned that delivery of the order from Fitzgerald during the strike might cause unnecessary misunderstandings in the labor dispute. Don discussed this request with Jane, and they agreed to accommodate the customer’s request on the condition that the customer agree to being billed on the originally scheduled delivery date and to pay on the originally contracted payment terms. The customer accepted those terms. On Friday morning, June 21, the production manager reported to Don that the order would not be completed as scheduled and would probably require at least one more week to finish. Concerned about the impact of this delay on his job status, Don decided to investigate the cause of the delay before informing Jane of the problem. Before he could complete his inquiry, Jane called to inform him that she had just mailed the invoice for the order as agreed. She also suggested that Don negotiate with the customer a storage fee for the order, which would be paid in addition to the billing arrangement. Don wondered what he should say to Jane next. NOTE: Each answer and response should a minimum of 10 sentences in length and provide detail and examples. Justice approach 1. How fairly does each of the options balance the benefits arid burdens among the various stakeholders (Don, Jane, customer and production manager)? Use examples for the benefit and burden. 2. Which stakeholders bear the most burden if Don withholds information from Jane? Apply the justice approach.

1st Question Answer :
Some times benefits create budens and burdens create benefits. With out burden there is no benefit. In case of business management there is a game between benefit and burden. These two are tied up with business ethics. Every business management decision should be rational, moral and should be followed by equity, transparency.Such type of ethical decisions would effect the reputation of an organization. Ethics are to be follwed inaccordance with rules and procedures.
Here in this case , stake holders are : Don, Jane, Customer and Production manager. Here one benefit that is Customer problem about labor dispute and work stoppage arid buden of production manager problem(unable to finish the order) . That too customer is agreed to pay bill as per the originally contracted payment terms. Management prepared bill for that . But the team was unable to process the order. It is a burden to the team. That burden was smoothly handled by managemnt ethically as there is a problem on both sides. In this case , customer is requesting the delay. As customer agrees the bill as per contract, jane prepared bill and apply the rule of paying storage cost. Thus here benefits are arid burdens.
Example :We can see the more about benefit and burden principle application by this case law Halsall v Brizell [1957] Ch 169.
2nd Question Answer :
If Don with holds information from Jane, the burden is to be beared by customer , production manager. Ultimately that impacts organization’s reputation. Don has to improve his management skills, diplomatic skills to handle situations ethically.
As per justice approach,
people are treated as per their levels, benefits, status, burdens differently.
Rules and conditions are clearly stated and took the willingness of particular parties to enforce .
Compensations are even set and levied as per the rules and consent of parties.
Stake holder welfare is also an important point here
It is the art of management to turn a problem in to profit ethically.
Thus as per justice approach , company has benn following rules ethically.
 
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