What tool or job aid would have prevented or mitigated this situation?

2.Was there anything else management should have mentioned when coaching Luis?

3.What's the ethical dilemma if any and by whom?

4.Can Tronics sales accept the information from the procurement specialist?

5.What tools, procedures, processes might be useful from the procurement specialist's perspective?

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Lydia your colleague asks Louis the procurement agent the following. Thank you, for coming in today to speak with us. We have signed a non-disclosure agreement with Tronics Corp and anything you say here will be held in the strictest of confidence. That said, can you give me an example of an ethical challenge you have faced recently? Libre5 Corp is Tronics largest wireless sensor parts supplier. I am originally from Brazil and recently relocated to the United States. I work in procurement and one of our suppliers wants to have lunch and selected the location. It turned out to be a strip club. So, I go, and it turns out the Libre5 guy is the best friend of a VP of one of our largest customers. He provided me with some critical information that I passed on to my contact in the sales department. At lunch we caught up on some personal stuff, and I picked up the check. I didn't know what to do as far as paying for the lunch or expensing the lunch so I asked my boss if I could declare this a "business lunch" and submit the receipt for reimbursement? It was 75 dollars. He said I could expense it, but he coached me not to receive gifts from suppliers. Lydia your colleague asks Louis the procurement agent the following. Thank you, for coming in today to speak with us. We have signed a non-disclosure agreement with Tronics Corp and anything you say here will be held in the strictest of confidence. That said, can you give me an example of an ethical challenge you have faced recently? Libre5 Corp is Tronics largest wireless sensor parts supplier. I am originally from Brazil and recently relocated to the United States. I work in procurement and one of our suppliers wants to have lunch and selected the location. It turned out to be a strip club. So, I go, and it turns out the Libre5 guy is the best friend of a VP of one of our largest customers. He provided me with some critical information that I passed on to my contact in the sales department. At lunch we caught up on some personal stuff, and I picked up the check. I didn't know what to do as far as paying for the lunch or expensing the lunch so I asked my boss if I could declare this a "business lunch" and submit the receipt for reimbursement? It was 75 dollars. He said I could expense it, but he coached me not to receive gifts from suppliers.

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1 A code of conduct or ethics policy would have been a useful tool to prevent or mitigate this situation Such a document provides guidelines and standards for ethical behavior in the workplace includi... View the full answer