Read the case study titled as Case Study: Protect Your Company or Your Cousin? by Joseph L. Badaracco published in Harvard Business Review, and answer the following Questions:

Write all the alternative choices of your decision. As HR Manager, what will be your decision to resolve this issue and why? [Mark 2]

Weighing the alternatives [Marks 2]

When weighing the various alternatives, how well each alternative fulfills the variables to consider can be expressed as scores. A different rating scale will be used to assess each alternative:

+2 very suitable

+1 quite suitable

0 neither suitable nor unsuitable

-1 not quite suitable

-2 not suitable at all

Note: Positive numbers (+2 or +1) indicate that the alternative is able to fulfill the variables, whereas negative numbers (-2 or -1) denote the opposite.