Ethical issues that general electric healthcare faced

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Case Study: GE Healthcare (B): A CSR Dilemma

Read the case study titled "GE Healthcare (B): A CSR Dilemma" located in the XanEdu case pack (Link Below)

Reviewing the case study titled "GE Healthcare (A): Innovating for Emerging Markets" may be helpful in supporting your arguments.

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

1. Determine two (2) specific ethical issues that General Electric (GE) Healthcare faced when implementing its strategy to introduce low cost diagnostic equipment to developing countries. Recommend two (2) actions that GE can take to resolve these ethical issues.

2. Analyze the concepts of professional and applied ethics and determine whether GE Healthcare breeched these concepts in the development of its low cost alternatives for diagnostic medical equipment. Provide one (1) specific example to support your rationale.

3. Determine whether GE Healthcare has any responsibility in resolving the issue of a preference for male children in cultures where its diagnostic ultrasound products are sold. Recommend one (1) strategy that would enable GE Healthcare to balance its responsibility of continued growth and development with any ethical or moral concerns investors and human rights groups might have regarding the use of its equipment in controlling the birth rates of male children in some cultures.

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