Presentation on PROFESSIONAL SPORTS: REWARDING AND PUNISHING THE SAME BHAVIOUR by Tipu

1. Presentation On
Professional Sports: Rewarding And Punishingthe
Same Behavior?
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Henry Ford
Shajahan Tipu
ID: 173006011
Green Business School
Green University of Bangladesh

2. Case Summary
• In this fast era, almost in many sports most of players use performance enhancing drugs (i.e. steroid) to increase their
energy level and fitness.
• It is an unethical practice. Currently, there is a punishment system for using performance enhancing drugs that is a 10-day
suspension for first time offenders or fine $10000.
• But this punishment is a relatively minor setback.
• Rafael Palmeiro is an example.
• Palmeiro received a 10-day suspension and forfeited $167,000 of his $3 million salary, and a banner celebrating his 3,000th
hit was removed from Camden yards.
• Professional sports may be trying to have their cake and eat it too.
• Behavior that may lead an individual or a team to fame and fortune may also be behavior that demands punishment

3. Case RelatedTopics
• It is a bat-and-ball game
played between two teams of nine players
each who take turns batting and fielding.
• The batting team attempts
to score runs by hitting a ball then
running counter-clockwise
around a series of four
bases: first, second, third, and home plate.

4. Answer:
• If I were the commissioner of baseball, then I also put a punishment policy like “three strikes and you are out”.
• Because it is very effective and it has a lesson for others.
• Every player knows that if he use steroid, obviously he will be punished and if he repeat it for third time he
will be out.
• You can’t reward players that take steroids. Steroids are an illegal drug
That is why it could be a positive point for players to avoid from steroids.
Question :3
If you were the commissioner of baseball, what steps would you take to try to
reduce the use of steroids in baseball? Is punishment likely to be the most
effective deterrent? Why or why not?

5. Steroid
Steroid is one of the most used performance enhancing drugs to increase energy level
and control fatigue.
• A steroid is an organic compound with four rings arranged in a specifi
cconfiguration.
• Examples include the dietary lipid cholesterol, the sex hormones estradiol and
testosterone and than inflammatory drug dexamethasone

6. Question :4
Is it ever “okay” to allow potentially unethical behaviors, which on the surface
may benefit organizations, or persist? Why or why not?
Answer:
• No, it is never okay to allow potentially unethically behaviors, which on the surface may benefit organization.
• Because it is risky practice and it can be harm for an organization.
• A real example of Microsoft Company is in front of us in 1998.
• Microsoft use some unethical practices to precede its business in market but other companies like Apple, Intel
etc put a case on Microsoft.
• Microsoft face many problems, that’s why we should not use unethical practices whether it is beneficial or
harmful for organization.

7. Conclusion
• From the above discussion, we are quite clear that there are very few short term benefits of using steroid. It
has many side effects and great reaction that causes many fatal diseases of the user like high blood pressure,
heart disease, liver damage, cancer, kidney damage.
• The use of drugs by one athlete may coerce or force another athlete to use, simply to maintain equality;
therefore heightening the competition.
• So, to avoid the use of steroid by players, the concerned authorities have to make rules and regulations and
should apply them properly because we know that any undesirable behavior can be avoid through negative
reinforcement i.e. punishment not through reward.