Building a Backdoor to the iPhone

Develop ability to analyze ethical issues in the context of business decision-making. Apply conceptual understanding of knowledge, theories, models and procedures to solve a range of management situations and problems related to ethical behavior Read the case Building a Backdoor to the iPhone: An Ethical Dilemma, and answer the following questions 1. What are various kinds of executive management decision? Where do ethical dilemmas arise? 2. What dilemmas did Tim Cook face? 3. What were Cook’s primary responsibilities, which would have influenced his decision to refuse to succumb to U.S government pressure to build a backdoor to the iPhone? Examine the contradiction in these responsibilities, if any. 4. Assess the ways in which Tim Cook may have resolved the dilemmas. 5. What should Cook have done?