The purpose of this memo is to present my research strategy for the gender and ethnicity discrimination problem McNeil Informatics is experiencing with Crescent Energy. The goal of this strategy is to discover whether past discrimination is present from Crescent Energy.

Summary
Overall, I was surprised by the discriminatory behavior of Crescent Energy, but happy to see Denise handle the situation in a professional manner. With regards to the research, I think we need to look at past company interactions Crescent Energy has had. After we have established a pattern, we need to take corrective action to make sure all of Crescent Energy’s decisions in the future are based solely on company strength.

Discussion
With the background given on Crescent Energy, we have found this company to be a run through a family basis. At their company headquarters, their support staff and clerical staff is made up of women who are related to a family member in the company ownership. The leaders of the company are mainly male.

Denise McNeil is the owner of McNeil Informatics. She is a young female with a high degree of education. She employs men and women who obtain both executive jobs and clerical/supporting staff jobs. Denise attended a meeting with Crescent Energy as the representation of McNeil Informatics. When Denise met Mr. Fayed, the Crescent Energy leader, he slightly smiled and mentioned that he was not aware of the fact that a woman ran McNeil Informatics. Denise took necessary action to deal with this situation, while maintaining a professional attitude.

McNeil Informatics needs to find proof of a history of discrimination by Crescent Energy. To do this, they need to analyze Crescent Energy’s choice of distributors, employees, customers, and possible partnership companies. After this analysis is done, McNeil Informatics needs to analyze the surrounding companies and see whom they have selected for distribution, customers, and employees. After this, they need to investigate the options for these areas.

Recommendation
Once the information above has been established, I would like to meet with you to discuss the options we have when dealing with this scenario.

This memo’s purpose is to address the issue of prejudice Denise McNeil, founder of McNeil Informatics, is questioning by Crescent Energy. Denise McNeil is struggling with an ethical issue on whether or not to give into conforming to the standards of Crescent Energy, based on their expectations of a business structure.

Summary
I believe that Denise McNeil should not conform to the expectations of the Crescent Energy’s officials. She should not hide the sex or ethnicity of her employees and leadership members due to the typical business structure of Crescent Energy in Saudi Arabia. Although, this job is possibly a huge career booster, there should be no encouragement of discrimination, regardless of the possible revenue. There are rules to ethical communication when dealing with business agreements and strategies.

Discussion
Crescent Energy is an oil-refining corporation with revenues in the billions of dollars. Despite the purchasing power of Crescent Energy, McNeil Informatics should not conform to the type of work structure Crescent Energy expects. The person she wishes to designate as the principal investigator, Mark Steinberg, should be completely disclosed in all business strategies. McNeil Informatics should not mislead their potential business partners, Crescent Energy.

One of the main principles for ethical communication is truth. To hide the information of McNeil Informatics employees would not be truthful. In addition, part of ethical communication is to avoid discriminatory language, which would include both verbal and nonverbal communication. Crescent Energy is using discriminatory language towards McNeil Informatics. They used both verbal and nonverbal communication as discrimination. The verbal would be their comment about a woman running the company, and the nonverbal is the slight smile.

It is also part of ethical communication not to mislead the readers. In this situation, McNeil Informatics should not mislead Crescent Energy by lying on paperwork or removing information about the founding of the company. This is called the moral minimum. This is described as not supporting habits of discrimination in company information.

Recommendation
I recommend that Denise McNeil leaves all information and materials the way they are to ensure McNeil Informatics is being completely ethical.