Question

4. You are about to graduate from the MBA program of a leading university. You specialized in management information systems (MIS) and will start a job with a company that commercially develops Web pages. You own a personal computer that is a couple of years old. You have decided to sell it and buy new equipment later after you see what kind of projects your employer has you working on. So you post a flyer on campus bulletin boards about the computer for sale. You have decided not to tell prospective buyers that you hand drive acts as its about to fail and that the computer occasionally crashes without warning. Is this ethical? Would you be likely to do this if you were this particular student?

Answer 1

No, this is not ethical.

Step-by-step explanation:

Ethics is moral principle which governs a person. A person is ethical if he considers benefit for others and his acts or thoughts does not harm anyone. In the given scenario the person is trying to sell his old computer which has many issues. These are not listed in the flyer. If the person does not want to list the issues then he must tell to specific buyer when he comes to buy the computer. He must tell all the faults and problems to the potential buyer.