Indicate whether you consider each of the following actions ethical, unethical, or a gray area. Which of the actions would you do? Which would you feel uncomfortable doing? Which would you refuse to do?

Discuss your answers with a small group of classmates.

In what ways did knowing you would share with a group change your answers?

1. Taking home office supplies (e.g., pens, markers, calculators, etc.) for personal use.

2. Inflating your evaluation of a subordinate because you know that only people ranked excellent will get pay raises.

3. Making personal long-distance calls on the company phone.

4. Updating your Facebook page and visiting the pages of friends during business hours.

5. Writing a feasibility report about a new product and de-emphasizing test results that show it could cause cancer.

6. Coming in to the office in the evening to use the company’s computer for personal projects