Cutting the fat and reducing the layers of management is inevitable. However, increasing shareholder wealth by trampling on stakeholders is immoral and unethical. Although it is difficult to say with certainty what the correct answer was, we can look at some of Kidder's principles for resolving ethical dilemmas to evaluate the decisions made. For example, ends-oriented thinking, which is about doing what is best for the masses, was clearly not factored into this decision-making process. Shareholders and senior management appear to be the benefactors of CSC's example. Furthermore, the principle of care-based thinking also seems to have been neglected in this decision-making process. I would find it hard to imagine that senior leaders view the behaviors they propose as if they were the object rather than the agent, and consult their feelings before determining that 40% of the workforce should fall into the category of people not meeting expectations (Hughes et al., 2014). Overall, CSC's decisions were clearly not entirely moral or