• Recent new hire at your company and have been given the responsibility for soliciting the employees in your 10-person department for the company’s annual drive to support United Way (a national nonprofit organization that works with a coalition of volunteers, contributors, and local charities to help people in their own communities). Your company sets “giving goals” based on each employee’s annual salary. You have completed your initial solicitation of your coworkers, and several of them declined to contribute, while others have pledged amounts well under their “giving goal.” As a result, your department is a few thousand dollars short of its goal. You have a meeting this afternoon with the senior vice president responsible for the company’s United Way program. You are concerned that you may be pressured to solicit and encourage under contributors to pledge more. Do you think that this is a fair request? How would you respond if such pressure is applied to you?

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