This discussion is based on a question from your textbook. It is designed to test what you will do in a potentially unethical situation(Learning outcome 2). It is further designed to test your understanding of the difference between compliance-based ethics and integrity-based ethics.

Preamble: You are a salesperson at a clothing store. You walk into the storage room to start ticketing some clothes that came in that morning and see a co-worker quickly take some pants from a box and put them into her knapsack. Your colleague does not see you enter the room.

Contribute to the discussion board by answering all the questions below?

a) What do you do? Do you leave and say nothing to your employer? Do you say something to your colleague? Is your responsibility to your organization, your colleague or both? What might be the implications of your decision? (Nickels, McHugh, McHugh, Cossa & Stevens, 2019, p. 209)

b) Based on your reply to (a) above, will you be practicing compliance-based ethics or integrity-based ethics?