Your design is a high profile product for your company in the USA. As such, the

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Your design is a high profile product for your company in the USA. As such, the media makes every effort to monitor the project's progress. Several vendors have been selected for sourcing the parts, all overseas. Things are looking good until your manager comes into your office and tells you that the media has just released a story that the manufacturer of your highest-cost part uses child labor, that is children as young as 14. The legal working age in the manufacturer's country is 14. To complicate matters, to change vendors would result in an additional cost of 15% for this high-cost item. You have been invited to a meeting to discuss how to proceed. Using your text from your engineering ethics course, prepare a recommendation for the meeting. This recommendation should not be based on opinion but rather on problem-solving approaches when dealing with cross-cultural ethics problems as found in your text. Would your recommendation be different, and if so, why, if the manufacturer used children as young as 12 with the legal working age still 14 in the manufacturer’s country?

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in company point of view it is better to have child labour since it reduces 15% of wages burden on children

eventhough child labour is illegal we might come with agenda that banning child labor outirght may not work in countries with systemic, widespread poverty and no social security programs to help out poor families in dire straits.

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