Your manager at Ethical Auditors is an avid Kantian. Over the course of the last two years, you have had many personality conflicts with her, as well as major arguments over what are the best accounting practices.

Despite these conflicts, you always completed your tasks accurately and on time.

At your two-year review, she recommends you for promotion. You know the recommendation is rooted in her sense of duty and not her kind feelings for you.

(a) Do you think her duty-based approach to ethics supports or undermines your promotion? Why?

(b) Do you think your manager’s dutybased approach to ethics supports or undermines her status as an ethical person? Why?