Question

All employees are expected to act according to their organization's Code of Ethics or Conduct, based upon the values of the organization. Furthermore, product safety engineers are asked to: (a) Determine "safety" ofproducts (b) Obtain various non-govermmental agency certifications for products (c) Confirm that products comply with govenment regulations (d) Examine and test products according to various standards They are required to do this using the minimum time, money, andnumber ofproduct samples - usually at the end of the product development process, when changes are more difficult and everyone wants to ship products

Answer 1

Scenario 1

In this situation employees must ask for extended deadline and must collaborate with cross functional teams to make sure quality and quantity of products are assured. Else legal audit can bring this loophole and employees can be caught in fraudulent or unethical activities. Even if organisation has to extend deadlines or incur cost they must ensure quality and benchmarking, else cost of lawsuit and potential damage can be hummoungous .

Scenario 2

The employees must destroy thr records anyhow because it can come under legal ambit and can prove dangerous if such manipulated or fraudulent or unethical breach of data is found and can harm company reputation .