Question: Case #2: Answer each question with either TRUE or FALSE. Lee has been working at the Carcinoma Tanning Salon for two years and loves the
Case #2: Answer each question with either TRUE or FALSE.
Lee has been working at the Carcinoma Tanning Salon for two years and loves the job. When Lees friend, Pat, asked Lee to help get her a job there, Lee has an excellent working with the salons manager; and when asked, granted Pat the job without even an interview. The manager told Lee: If you say Pat is qualified to work here, I have so much confidence in you that your recommendation is all I need to give Pat the job.
At first, Pat and Lee worked different shifts. When they came to share a shift, Lee noticed that Pat would occasionally give a friend a tanning session without charge, something forbidden in the employee policy manual. When Lee confronted Pat because, in taking the job, Pat, like all employees, had signed an agreement to uphold the salons policies. Pat said the company was making plenty of money and her friends would not come at all without a little encouragement. Pat then claimed that what she was doing was really helping to build business and that the boss was wrong for having a policy against it.
Lee did not know what to do. Lee did not want to blow the whistle on Pat, and cause her to lose her newfound job. On the other hand, Lee felt a sense of responsibility for Pats behavior in the workplace because Pat obtained the job based on Lees good reputation.
1. From Lees perspective in case #2, Lee is facing an ethical dilemma. TRUE OR FALSE?
2. From case #2, one can see that Lee is confronting a choice between the ethical principle of loyalty, as it applies to friendships, and the ethical principle of honor, as it applies to the meeting of ones promised expectations. TRUE OR FALSE?
3. In case #2, one can conclude that the problem is only a legal issue because both Lee and Pat signed an agreement to uphold the companys policy manual. TRUE OR FALSE?
4. From case #2, one can see that Pat has violated the ethical principle of honor. TRUE OR FALSE?
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