Health-Tech Materials is a firm that manufactures medical equipment purchased by hospitals and clinics. The firm employs over 2,500 workers in its two manufacturing facilities located in Texas and Arizona. Recently, Health-Tech dismissed a number of employees for ethics violations ranging from improper Internet usage to stealing company funds. In addition, the firm has been sued by two former employees for wrongful discharge. As a result, Health-Tech's top executives are evaluating the firm's hiring process, ethics training system, reward system, and disciplinary system to determine how to promote ethics and fair treatment.
Which of the following, if true, best supports the argument that Health-Tech should utilize online ethics program software?
A) The Health-Tech legal department requires the firm to post its ethics code and hiring procedures on the firm's web site to prevent legal problems.
B) Health-Tech discusses its code of conduct during employee orientation and also provides new employees with the firm's handbook.
C) Health-Tech executives want to quantify the types of ethical issues that are most common at the firm in order to provide the most relevant training to employees.
D) Health-Tech managers are required to monitor the computer usage of subordinates to determine their levels of productivity.
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