5 Cascade Constructors has a contract for the construction of a major hotel in the Middle East. Many of the workers employed on the project were imported from Asia. The workers requested that they be allowed to work ten hours per day seven days per week in order to make significant overtime wages. Cascade’s project manager, seeing the benefit of early completion of the project, readily agreed.

• Were the actions of the project manager ethical?

• How would you have handled the situation?