Working in small groups and using the guidelines for ethical decision making discussed in this chapter, decide what you would do in each of the following situations:
1. Confidentiality: Your boss told you that one of your employees will have to be laid off because of budget cuts, but this information is confidential for the time being. You know that the employee just received a job offer from another company but is planning to reject the offer.
2. Copyright Issues: During peer reviews in a class, you read another student’s paper and noticed two paragraphs of information that sounded familiar. The content appears to be quoted directly from a textbook used in your Introduction to Marketing class.
3. Employment: You accepted a job but received an offer for a much better job two days later.
4. Hiring: A Colombian candidate is the most qualified for a job, but the position requires quite a bit of face-to-face and telephone communication with customers, and you’re concerned that customers won’t understand his accent.
5. Academic Integrity: A friend asks you to proofread and correct his 12-page Financial Accounting report, which is due online in two hours. You notice lots of grammatical and typographical errors.
6. Merit-Based Pay: An employee has performed well all year and deserves a pay raise. However, she is at the top of her grade scale and can’t be promoted.