3. Career Activity: As this chapter indicated, ethical decisions are not always clear-cut. To think about some difficult ethical questions, complete the following activity:

a. On your own paper, answer whether it is ethical

(yesorno) to do the following:

1. Use your company email address to send personal email?

2. Use your personal smart phone during office hours to send personal email or text messages?

3. Use a company phone to make personal calls during working hours?

4. Use your smart phone to make personal calls during working hours?

5. Use a company computer during working hours to play games or shop online?

6. Use your personal smart phone during office hours to play games or shop online?*

b. In groups of four to seven compare individual answers. Discuss the reasons for your answers and work to come to an agreement on as many questions as possible. For any questions receiving a “yes” answer, what percent of an eighthour day would be acceptable?

c. Compare answers with other groups. To see how business students and executives from the United States and college students from a Middle Eastern culture answered the questions, see the research study conducted by Michael Shurden and colleagues (2008)—use a database like EBSCOHost to locate the article.