THE EFFICIENCY OF SIX SIGMA IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY

The ethics of Six Sigma in the pharmaceutical industry will be evaluated using workable ethical theories. Because Six Sigma can be applied to many different industries and has shown relative success in other fields, using Six Sigma in an industry with strict regulations and procedures in place may be a good fit for this statistical process. Behind this process, certain ethical viewpoints will also be considered. These theories will all be applied and assessed to ethical issues that may occur when using the Six Sigma technique. The theories used are Rule Utilitarianism, Kantianism, Act Utilitarianism, and Social Contract Theory. In this paper we will examine the ethics of Six Sigma in the pharmaceutical industry.