This document contains a take-home quiz for a Business Ethics course. It presents two ethical dilemmas involving workplace situations and asks the student to discuss how they would resolve each dilemma. The first dilemma involves a human resources director receiving pressure to consider the boss's daughter for a job opening despite her application being past the deadline. The second dilemma involves a senior manager creating an uncomfortable work environment to try to force out an older long-term employee that they want to retire. The student is asked to discuss how they would handle each situation and the pros and cons of their arguments.
This document contains a take-home quiz for a Business Ethics course. It presents two ethical dilemmas involving workplace situations and asks the student to discuss how they would resolve each dilemma. The first dilemma involves a human resources director receiving pressure to consider the boss's daughter for a job opening despite her application being past the deadline. The second dilemma involves a senior manager creating an uncomfortable work environment to try to force out an older long-term employee that they want to retire. The student is asked to discuss how they would handle each situation and the pros and cons of their arguments.
This document contains a take-home quiz for a Business Ethics course. It presents two ethical dilemmas involving workplace situations and asks the student to discuss how they would resolve each dilemma. The first dilemma involves a human resources director receiving pressure to consider the boss's daughter for a job opening despite her application being past the deadline. The second dilemma involves a senior manager creating an uncomfortable work environment to try to force out an older long-term employee that they want to retire. The student is asked to discuss how they would handle each situation and the pros and cons of their arguments.
This document contains a take-home quiz for a Business Ethics course. It presents two ethical dilemmas involving workplace situations and asks the student to discuss how they would resolve each dilemma. The first dilemma involves a human resources director receiving pressure to consider the boss's daughter for a job opening despite her application being past the deadline. The second dilemma involves a senior manager creating an uncomfortable work environment to try to force out an older long-term employee that they want to retire. The student is asked to discuss how they would handle each situation and the pros and cons of their arguments.
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LA VERDAD CHRISTIAN COLLEGE - APALIT
Semester: 2nd Semester 2018-2019 Quiz Date: February 13, 2019
Course Name: BUSINESS ETHICS Section:
Assessment: TAKE HOME QUIZ Date of Submission: February 22, 2019 Student Name: Student ID: Total Marks: 60 Awarded Marks:
Question One _ 30 Marks each
1 – THE BOSS’S DAUGHTER AS APPLICANT As head of the HRD, you received a phone call from your boss who was also the board president and your godfather, asking to determine whether or not you received his daughter’s application for a current job opening. You indicated that it had indeed, come in, but that the closing date for the paperwork/filling of application had passed. “oh”, he said, “you are not going to let a qualified candidate be excluded because of a closing date, are you?”. Then he added quickly, “but let me not interfere”. As you hung up the phone, you replayed the conversation in your mind and pondered the implications. Later that day, your senior manager asked to see you. Despite offering him a chair, he chose to stand by the door that he had just closed and said, “I hear that the boss’s daughter has applied for the opening. You are going to consider her, are you? She worked here years ago, and there were problems. The place will be up in arms if you take her back.” He smilingly added, “I just wanted to let you know and to help”. Then he turned on his heel and left.
QUESTIONS: 1. If you were faced with this situation, how are you going to resolve the dilemma? Kindly stress the point of your arguments for this case. 2. Discuss the pros and cons of your arguments. LA VERDAD CHRISTIAN COLLEGE - APALIT
2 – HARASS HIM UNTIL HE QUITS
Ruben Dinacaya is 62 years old and has been with the company for 28 years. He has had a varied career, and possesses a number of skills and abilities. Mr. Dinacaya is quite set in his ways and somewhat eccentric. His supervisor and other senior managers would like to see him retire or let him go, but his performance meets the standards of the company in all respects and he has no interest in retirement. No one has been able to identify any deficiencies that would warrant discharge. The senior manager in Mr. Dinacaya’s department recently decided to create a work environment for him that would be so uncomfortable that it would ultimately cause him to quit. The manager presented the idea to Mr. Dinacaya’s immediate supervisor who readily accepted the idea. They began to give Ruben thankless assignments and assigning him to the “graveyard shift”. Younger employees with less experience and service were given better assignments and shifts. Ruben appealed the decision but was told by his manager that “the assignments have all been made, if you don’t like yours you can look elsewhere”. There is no union or employee problem-solving process.
QUESTIONS: 1. Indicate how you would have handled this situation if you had been the immediate supervisor? Mr. Dinacaya? 2. Discuss the pros and cons of your arguments.
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