When is it appropriate to give a job applicant, employee, associate, colleague, or partner a second chance? Consider the following situations: 

a. A manager is very effective in getting maximum efforts and results from her staff. However, the staff complains about suffering continual verbal abuse from the manager, including receiving belittling comments both privately and in public. Should her employer fire the manager or seek to rehabilitate her? 

b. An employee is a recovering cocaine addict. Since successfully completing rehabilitation, he has received a college degree and been drug-free for three years. Would you hire him? 

c. Donald Sterling, co-owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, a team in the National Basketball Association, made racist remarks in a private conversation that was recorded secretly by his girlfriend. Should the other NBA owners have attempted to oust him from team ownership? 

d. Jerry Sandusky, a coach for the Penn State football program, was observed engaging in same-sex relations with a youth attending his program for underprivileged youths. In 2012, he was convicted of 52 counts of sexual abuse of young boys over a 15-year period. Should Penn State have fired him as a coach when it had first notice of one instance of abuse, or should it have attempted to rehabilitate him? After the full extent of his crimes have become known, would it be appropriate for Penn State or any other employer to hire him for a position in which he has contact with young boys? Are there jobs for which you would hire him? Why or why not?