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Legal Case Discussion #$2$

You need to review the following $2$ separate situations and prepare your analysis $-$ and also reply to at least $2$ other students in the class.

Ethics and the Law $-$

Consider the following Ethical Situation: Executives were considering the possibility of moving their company to a different state. They wanted to determine if employees would be willing to relocate, but they did not want the employees to know the company was contemplating a move because the final decision had not yet been made. Instead of asking the employees directly, the CEO hired a firm to carry out a telephone survey. When calling the employees, these "pollsters" pretended to be conducting a public opinion poll and identified themselves as working for the new state's Chamber of Commerce. They asked the employees if they would move, and if they liked working for the company. Then they reported all the information, including who said it$,$ to the company. The CEO told the firm it must keep this a secret. Would the CEO have conducted the poll if he had considered his behavior under the front page test $($meaning if it was on the front page of the paper and everyone knew about it would he still do it$)?$