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Ethical Dilemmas for Business Students

This document presents several ethical dilemmas that may arise in the workplace: 1) A coworker asks you to cover for them so they can leave work early for a date. 2) Company policy prohibits romantic relationships between coworkers but you have become attracted to someone from another department. 3) You overhear your boss saying a coworker will be laid off soon but they are a good friend of yours. 4) Your boss instructs you to make a new employee, who is the son of the company president, look good by giving them easy accounts despite them being unproductive. 5) A customer asks for a discount on their order after learning costs went down but you do not offer the same to

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Ethical Dilemmas for Business Students

This document presents several ethical dilemmas that may arise in the workplace: 1) A coworker asks you to cover for them so they can leave work early for a date. 2) Company policy prohibits romantic relationships between coworkers but you have become attracted to someone from another department. 3) You overhear your boss saying a coworker will be laid off soon but they are a good friend of yours. 4) Your boss instructs you to make a new employee, who is the son of the company president, look good by giving them easy accounts despite them being unproductive. 5) A customer asks for a discount on their order after learning costs went down but you do not offer the same to

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Ethical Dilemmas: What Would You Do?

Suppose you are an accountant/in marketing position:

Case 1: Your co-worker asks you to cover for him/her so he/she can sneak
out of work early to go to his/her date. Do you agree? If he went anyway,
would you keep silent?

Case 2: Company policy forbids co-workers to become romantically involved.


You go to the same church as someone from another department, and you
find yourself becoming attracted to this person. Do you pursue the
relationship?

Case 3: While in the restroom, you overhear your boss telling a colleague that
Mark is going to be laid off at the end of the quarter in about two weeks’ time.
Mark is a good friend of yours. Do you tell him?

Case 4: One of the newest salespeople in your division is a real goof-off, never
showing up for work on time, distracting other people with his pranks and so
on. You complain about him to your boss, who tells you the kid is the son of
the company president. Your boss instructs you not only to leave the new guy
alone but also to make his sales numbers look good by throwing him some
no-brainer accounts. What do you do?

Case 5: The manufacturing cost of the widgets your company makes has
dropped by 50%. One of your customers, Sam, tells you he knows this
because he is best friends with your company’s VP of production and asks
you for a discount on his order. Your boss okays the discount. Your other
customer, Sue (who is one of your best friends and knows nothing about the
drop-in manufacturing costs), places the exact same order for widgets as
Sam. Do you offer her a similar discount? Do you tell her about the drop-in
manufacturing costs?

Case 6: Your best friend is the VP of one of the companies with which your
firm does business. You take her out for lunch just to catch up on personal
stuff, and you pick up the check. Do you declare this a “business lunch” and
submit the receipt for reimbursement?

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