Question

Unipeg Corporation has uniform high sales targets for its employees all across the globe, regardless of the environmental constraints in each market. Employees are penalized for any shortfall. This has caused many employees to falsify the values of their sales. In this context, the roots of unethical behavior can be traced to:______.
1. varying ethical standards in different nations.
2. national differences in factors of production.
3. cultural differences of countries.
4. unrealistic performance goals.
5. strong personal ethics among employees.

Answer 1

Answer: 4. unrealistic performance goals.

Explanation:

Unipeg Corporation has a standardized performance target across the globe which is high enough on its own without having to account for environmental constraints.

This is very unrealistic because different environments have different constraints that can either increase or decrease sales.

Say for instance Unipeg is engaged in the sale of trendy women clothing including mini skirts, sleeveless tops, crop tops etc but has a presence in Iran or Saudi Arabia. The sales there cannot be expected to match up to sales in Japan or Brazil for instance and to expect such is unrealistic.

Penalizing the Employees for these shortfalls has led to them falsifying data and that is down to the unrealistic nature of Unipeg's designs.