Final Paper Assignment Outline : Does It Matter H

Final Paper Assignment OutlineName:Institutional affiliation Does it Matter How We Get There?IntroductionSpectro Electronics is a leading supply chain manager and distributor of electronic components to manufacturers. For decades, the company has believed in ethical business practices, including “doing what is right even when no one is seeing you” (Schepers, 2005, p.1). Under the leadership of Jim Snelling since 1992 as vice-president for Global Strategy and Operations, the company witnessed a period of rapid growth. Spectro Electronics managed to expand into the global market at first through global agents and later, by acquisition of its weaker competitors. However, in one acquisition deal, Spectro Electronics acquired ElectroSource, one of its biggest competitors. The two companies had very different business culture. While Spectro Electronics preferred an ethical approach to doing business, ElectroSource only focused on the end result, regardless of the means; some which contradicted the Spectro’s ethics.Some employees from ElectroSource have managed to win a massive contract under the Spectro brand, worth $100 million through unethical means (Schepers, 2005). Snelling, who is now caught up between abiding with the Spectro original strategy and expose the unethical practice at the expense of