Focus The purpose of the paper is to develop a response to the ethical issues ..

Focus
The purpose of the paper is to develop a response to the ethical issues … not torestate the technical problems. A suggested breakdown of the paper is to haveonly one third of the content cover the technical engineering issues, and theremainder to discuss the ethical issues, the failures and solutions. In presentingthe solutions, students are to consider what obviously what went wrong and howthe engineers involved in the scandal performed their duties, did or did notfollow corporate policy or other regulations, if criminal laws were broken … andhow, if management was changed, new policies and procedures could beimplemented to prevent a repeat of the disaster/tragedy/controversy. Just as inthe Discussions, a review of the corporate culture and the breakdown incommunication is necessary. Commentary and opinion matter … but, critically,there is a need for offering solutions backed up by use of the readings andreferences. A successful paper will review the issues and make use of the keyterms and concepts from the readings. Each stakeholder will be mentioned, theirperspective examined and, again, solutions will be offered.Paper InstructionsThe purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate knowledge of key terms andconcepts from the course materials and related readings. You will need to conduct additional research in other to answer the question(s) asked. The focus of your paper is to concentrate on the ethical concerns. Time spent on any technical math or science concerns is to be kept to a minimum. Your answers must devote much of the paper to an examination of the ethical issues, theories and solutions. Cites and quotes are necessary. Appropriate reference sources include case law, scholarly research papers, articles published in academic journals or government websites, but not personal webpages or Wikipedia. Traditional news articles may be used if necessary to provide appropriate context. Submission of this Assignment must be made by the date and time indicated above in either Word or PDF format. Failure to submit on time, or in an improper format will not be accepted.
Topic – THERANOS SCANDAL
You are to apply the process of ethical analysis and apply theoretical ethical principles to what happened to the Theranos corporation. Seen as an epic failure of moral and ethical culture, engineers stood in a position of trust to produce a safe effective product. That did not happen, and a massive fraud cost investors and patients. Applying what you have learned in the course, from the readings and the Discussion postings, analyze what happened, who was a fault and what solutions could be applied to prevent this from happening in the future. You are to apply the process of ethical analysis and apply theoretical ethical principles to the Theranos scandal. Outside research will be necessary.
You are to answer the following questions:
1. What was the engineering issue that Theranos sought to solve?
2. What role did the engineers play in developing the techniques, devices and/or products, and in promoting them?
3. What were the technical problems in the case?
4. Who were the stakeholders in the case?
5. What were the ethical problems in the case?
6. Why weren’t there more whistleblowers?
7. What were the engineers’ responses to the ethical problems?
8. What were the corporate responses to the ethical problems?
9. What professional codes or standards were implicated?
10. What was the role of government oversight or regulation?
11. What are your recommendations about the Theranos scandal?
12. How could it have been prevented?
A reminder again to cite and quote heavily. Consider the following references:
Case study: Lessons learned from Theranos’ corporate culturehttps://medium.com/the-coleman-fung-institute/case…
NEW LOOK INSIDE THERANOS’ DYSFUNCTIONAL CORPORATE CULTUREhttps://www.wired.com/story/a-new-look-inside-ther…
Schadenfreude for Theranos — and satisfaction in how engineering doesn’t liehttps://www.designworldonline.com/schadenfreude-fo…