Assignment No.

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INTERACTIVE SESSION: ORGANIZATIONS

Submitted by
ASAD MEHMOOD (BBA07173029)
Submitted to
DR TAHREEM
Subject
CSR
Class
BBA 6th (2018-2022)

Department of Management sciences (LBS)

Your co-worker asks you to cover for him at work because he is taking the Friday off for a long
weekend. What would you do and why? What view of ethics is this?

I would ask whether the Day OFF was scheduled in advance, and whether the Boss is aware. As
long as both are true, there is no ETHICS concern.

If neither condition is true, unless the person has done exactly the same for YOU in the past, I
would suggest to not participate.
1. Your co-worker asks you to cover for him so he can sneak out of work early to go
to his son’s softball game. Do you agree? If he went anyway, would you keep
silent?
-Honestly, in this situation I would not cover for this co-worker but I would
probably keep my mouth shut and not rat on them unless I’m asked. I would tell
them that they shouldn’t go and that I’m not involving myself by lying for them. It
would heavily depend on if this were common behavior for the person.

2. You’re about ready to sign a big new client to a contract worth over $50,000. Your
boss is under a lot of pressure to increase sales. He calls you into his office and
tells you his job is on the line, and he asks you to include the revenue for your
contract in the sales figures for the quarter that ends tomorrow. You know the
contract is a sure thing but the client is out of town and cannot possibly sign by
tomorrow. What do you do?
-I wouldn’t add the revenue to the contract. No matter how much I value that
boss and how sure I am that the contract will go through, that’d put my job on the
line and risk being charged with financial forgery.

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3. 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?
-I don’t know a lot about manufacturing costs but it would depend on the
company’s policy and the boss’s policy on giving discounts. It would be very
important to me that I’m not risking integrity by giving a discount just because
someone else did it for a friend.
 

4. 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?
-I don’t think that having a crush on someone makes the risks of pursuing a
relationship worth it. It’s a lot to risk for just being attracted to someone; little
crushes happen all the time and aren’t worth breaking company policy.

5. 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?
-I would pay the check myself. If you’re just catching up, it’s immoral to report it
as a business lunch. You shouldn’t go out to eat if you can’t afford the check and
tip yourself, point blank. I don’t even like having others pick up the check on their
own accord, let alone when it’s unwillingly.

6. While in the restroom, you overhear your boss telling a colleague that Bob is
going to be laid off at the end of the quarter in about two weeks’ time. Bob is a
good friend of yours. Do you tell him?
-It would depend on the circumstances. I probably wouldn’t say anything to
anyone about it, just to stay out of it. It wasn’t meant for me to hear and telling
Bob might cause a huge blow out and end up getting me fired or ruin other office
relationships. There’s nothing he can do to prevent being laid off at that point
anyway.

7. 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 antics 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?
-At this point, I would find a higher-up if possible. If his father is the highest
person in the company and will just let him continue to disrupt sales and daily
work, I’d find somewhere else to work. Nepotism just leads to many problems in
these situations.

Ethics aren’t always easy to deal with in the real world. It’s difficult to know how
I’d always respond in workplace issues but I know I’d try to stay in my lane and
do the right thing when facing the opportunity to. I definitely know that I wouldn’t
take advantage of situations where it’s easy to sneak around, and I definitely
wouldn’t ever steal. But, for me I don’t think it’d be easy to involve myself in
others’ situations.