The Chief Engineer (CE) of GFC commissions a study on potential liabilities for the Hover-vees. The preliminary result is that Hover-vees will likely kill or maim humans at an increased rate of double to triple over automobile travel because of collisions and crashes at high speeds -- projected annual death rates of 100,000 to 200,000. However, global warming will end, and the environment will flourish. The U. S. Government gets wind of the plans. Congress begins to discuss the rules on who can own and operate Hover-vees. GFC's stock skyrockets. The Chief Engineer takes the results of the study to the Chief Legal Counsel (CLC), and together they agree to bury the study, going forward with the production plans. The Chief Project Manager (CPM), who has read the study and agreed to bury it, goes ahead and plans out the project for the company, with target dates and production deadlines. Somebody sent a secret copy of the report to you at your home address. It has no information in it at all, except for the report showing the proof of the increase in accidents and deaths. The report shows, on its face, that the CE, CLC, CPM, and your Congressional Representative have seen copies of this report. On the front there are these words typed in red: They knew they buried this. Please save the world!

The Chief Project Manager (CPM), who has read the study and agreed to bury it, goes ahead and plans out the project for the company, with target dates and production deadlines that have been burred by Congress. Thus, there is an ethical responsibility of the person to approach the correct ethical agency, as the case deals with high mortality. First of all, I would make sure that the study report sent to me is accurate. After finding it to be true, I would contact the various whistleblower organizations which deal with these sorts of incidences so that they can bring the issue in front of the public, and some actions can be taken.I will not go to press or contact my boss as it will have a negative consequence on my career or family. Contacting the genuine whistleblower agencies or the government agencies those deal with the ethical aspect of the government decision, audit these decisions should be reached. Talking to the boss may have a negative consequence, and the boss can dump this report, and if the press is contacted, it will provide negative publicity to me, and it will risk my family. The article, Loyalty Isn' A Virtue, It's The Enemy Of Workplace Ethics, talks about how a situation like this isn't easy because humans are tribal. In essence, we evolved to be in the society of other humans and to sacrifice our safety to defend them against outside threats instinctively. However, when it comes to the public, people can become ruthless and take situations more based on emotions or lack of "real" facts. In the scenario, Congress begins to discuss the rules on who can own and operate Hover-vees, which may deem more control of production and distribution. Congress can override a veto, declined by the President, by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. Congress can also empower to enact laws deemed necessary and proper.

QUESTION:

Upon studying the issue, you determine the source of the message that set you on the trail! The Source is Trace Velvet, a worker on the project that was fired for gross incompetence. As near as you can tell, the firing was deserved. This could be an act of revenge, or a demonstration of said incompetence. But you have no evidence that the information you have received was false. It may well point out a real problem. How does this change your responses?