Now you own a large corporation and a recent economic downturn requires you to eliminate all dividends to your company stockholders. This is a highly confidential decision because it will negatively affect your stock prices. Several of your wealthy neighbors own a considerable amount of your company stock. At a recent picnic in your backyard one of them asks if she should sell some of your company’s stock, considering how bad the stock market is doing in general. If you say “no,” she could lose a considerable amount of money. What do you do?

Use the Engineering Ethics Matrix to analyze the following situations.