$13-6$c Understand Yourself Exercise

Influencing an Ethical Decision

Read the following scenario and complete the assignment that follows it:

Soon after you begin a new job, you receive a troubling report from the company$$s new $401($k$)$ provider. Several social security numbers do not match the names of the employees who provided them, which suggests that these individuals may be illegal aliens and ineligible to work in the United States. You begin an investigation, but your boss quickly orders you to stop, explaining that the company cannot afford to terminate those employees even if they are illegals because that would leave the company shorthanded. When you express your concern about this deliberate violation of federal immigration laws, the company$$s leadership is unworried. They have reasoned that the Immigration and Naturalization Service has bigger fish to fry and that even if they are caught, the fine would be an acceptable business expense, since the company is making huge profits due to the cheap labor.

Assignment: Using what you have learned in this chapter, describe what you would do to change the company$$s policy toward employing illegal workers. How effective do you think you would be$?$ Why?