Incident #$1$

Setting You work as a sonographer for a company that owns a dozen imaging diagnostics clinics in a major city. A sonographer is a medical professional who uses ultrasound medical equipment to create images for medical diagnostics. You are assigned to several clinics, working at each clinic for a few days or a week. You typically rotate across four clinics closest to your home, but occasionally are assigned to one of the company's other eight clinics in the city. Each day, the clinic assigns each of its half$-$dozen sonographers to a specific consulting room and they receive patients who have been pre$-$booked by the clinic administrative staff. The company owns more than one brand and model of ultrasound equipment $($GE$,$ Toshiba, Siemens, Philips, etc.$),$ so some rooms have different equipment. Each ultrasound machine has similar functions, but staff tend to have more experience with and preferences for one model than for others. Also, some machines are easier to use for some purposes $($e$.$g$.,$ scanning, video imaging$)$ or have more modern controls or displays.

On this particular day, you are assigned to a clinic where you have worked only a few times in the past. As you enter your assigned consulting room, you see another sonographer already preparing the equipment for the day's use. The sonographer explains that she decided to use this room because she doesn't like the ultrasound equipment in the room assigned to her. She claims that the clinic rarely assigns her to that other consulting room. She says that you can take the consulting room she was assigned. At that point, she turns away to continue her equipment preparation. You are able to work on the equipment in the other consulting room, although it is not your favourite machine, either. Also, you notice from your appointment sheet that one patient today requires a special type of scan that is much more difficult to complete using the equipment in the other room than in the room to which you were assigned. You barely know the other sonographer. She seemed somewhat presumptuous in casually taking your assigned room, but wasn't aggressive or threatening in her statements. She works frequently at this clinic whereas you are seldom assigned to this clinic. You believe that the clinic management is indifferent regarding who is assigned to each consulting room.

Action Alternatives for Incident #$1$ Please indicate your first $(1)$ and second $(2)$ choices from among the following alternatives by writing the appropriate number in the space provided.

$\backslash$table$[[$Action Alternative,Ranking $(1$st & $2$nd$)],[1.$ You tell the other sonographer that she must return to her assigned room or trade rooms,$],[$with another sonographer. If she refuses, you state that you will ask the clinic manager to$,],[$enforce the room assignment.,$],[2.$ You politely tell the other sonographer that as a favour to her, you will let her use the,$],[$consulting room that you were assigned $($and she has taken$).,],[3.$ Given that there is a half hour before the clinic opens, you ask the sonographer to spend a$,],[$few minutes discussing her needs and preferences to determine if there is some solution on$,],[$the consulting room or ultrasound equipment that will benefit both of you.,$],[4.$ You tell the sonographer that she can have the consulting room you were assigned for most,$],[$of the day, but must swap rooms with you when you have appointments that are much,$],[$better served by the equipment in this room.,$],[5.$ Without saying anything, you walk away from the consulting room you were assigned and,$],[$work in the room assigned to the other sonographer. Later, you make some excuse $($such as$,],[$long driving distance$)$ to the company's central administration to explain why they should,$],[$not assign you to this clinic in future.,$]]$