Assignment

Business Ethics in Saudi Culture

Q.1
Should company managers in Saudi Arabic abide by Saudi
norms governing the treatment of women? Should they
accept the culture’s refusal to recognize human rights or
should they try to initiate reform? Why?
Ans:
 Every company could set their own culture rules as
long as it is still inside the company. But the
company also has to considered about the culture
outside their territory.
 They must respect to the Arab culture because they
will meet and cooperate with Arabian people.
 As for the treatment to woman, they should make
rules that combined their western perspective and
Arab perspective.
 The company cannot enforce things, which they
think is right.
 Q.2
Should company managers raise objections to
those practices that appeared highly immoral to
them or should they quietly go along with these
practices?
Ans:
 Combine the practices within American company
with practices that exist in Saudi Arabia.
 The company should negotiate the acceptable moral
standard with the Arabians to avoid any damages
that will be felt by the company and Saudi Arabia
society.
Q.3
Does the case support ethical relativism or does it
suggest that there are certain things that are wrong
no matter what, or neither of these positions?
Ans:
Ethical relativism is the theory that, because
different societies have different ethical beliefs,
there is no rational way of determining whether
people of this or that society believe it is morally
right or wrong. No, that are wrong no matter what.