At 9:00 am last Friday, the phone rings in your office and you are placed on the phone with Mr. Watson who is the community relations director at the UAB Tobacco Company located in Dallas County, AL. This is the largest tobacco company in Alabama and maybe the United States. They called to inform you that your agency (The Dallas County Literacy Council) has been selected to receive a $100,000 check to remodel the agencies youth services facility. You have recently had the board of directors approve a policy that all facilities in the agency will go smoke free. Some of the employees are very angry that they must leave the property to smoke, and a few have resigned. Since the smoke-free policy has been adopted, you find that fewer of the clients are smoking. Mr. Watson would like to come to the next board meeting with his camera crew to present the check. The board will need to agree to have the film footage used in a national advertisement for the UAB Tobacco Company.
The Dallas County Literacy Council is experiences financial difficulties, and the youth services complex is badly in need of repair. As the CEO of the Literacy Council, do you accept this donation and have your agency featured in the advertisement campaign? What are the moral, ethical, or legal considerations of taking these funds? How will you justify the advertisement of tobacco to promote literacy and fund your youth services programs? What other stakeholders may be upset by your action or inaction?
Prior to making your decision you have been up all weekend (little sleep) and very anxious as this poses multiple ethical concerns. In 1.5 pages please address your decision to accept or not accept the funds and support the decision with a sound administrative rationale.
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