Assume you are a middle manager in a company with about 1000 employees. How would you respond to each of the following situations? 

1. You are negotiating a contract with a potentially very large customer whose representative has hinted that you could almost certainly be assured of getting his business if you gave him and his wife an all-expenses-paid cruise to the Caribbean. You know the representative’s employer would not approve of such a “payoff,” but you have the discretion to authorize such an expenditure. What would you do? 

2. You have the opportunity to steal $100 000 from your company with absolute certainty that you would not be detected or caught. Would you do it? 

3. Your company policy on reimbursement for meals while travelling on company business is that you will be repaid for your out-of-pocket costs, which are not to exceed $50 a day. You do not need receipts for these expenses—the company will take your word. When travelling, you tend to eat at fast-food places and rarely spend more than $15 a day. Most of your colleagues submit reimbursement requests in the range of $45 to $50 a day regardless of what their actual expenses are. How much would you request for your meal reimbursements? 

4. You want to get feedback from people who are using one of your competitor’s products. You believe you will get much more honest responses from these people if you disguise the identity of your company. Your boss suggests you contact possible participants by using the fictitious name of the Consumer Marketing Research Corporation. What would you do? 

5. You have discovered that one of your closest friends at work has stolen a large sum of money from the company. Would you do nothing? Go directly to an executive to report the incident before talking about it with the offender? Confront the individual before taking action? Make contact with the individual with the goal of persuading that person to return the money? 

6. You are in the process of hiring a new assistant, and your number-one client in terms of dollar value in sales has suggested that his sister-in-law would be ideal for the job. You have interviewed her, but believe that another candidate you interviewed is better qualified. You are concerned that if you don’t hire the client’s sister-in-law, however, you may lose some or all of your client’s business.