After 25 years, Harun is finally ready to retire and take it easy. Harun teaches accounting and general business courses at PJCC Community College. The business department at PJCC offers business administration classes transferable to State University as well as professional and technical programs that culminate in a certificate after one year of study or an associate's degree after two years of study. PJCC has a dual enrolment agreement with State, and as a result, many business students at PJCC are also enrolled at State. Harun teaches several of the business transfer classes at PJCC, but his real love is the nontransfer professional accounting program. He was part of the faculty that created the program, and over the years he has taught hundreds of accounting students and helped them obtain internships and find employment in the community. Harun's golfing buddy sometimes jokes that every bookkeeper in town has been through Harun's accounting classes. Besides the regular accounting classes and internships, PJCC maintains an accounting lab where students can get tutoring help if needed. The current lab tutor is David, who was hired two years ago when Dianne retired after nearly 10 years as the accounting tutor. David is a former student of Harun's and holds an associate's degree from PJCC and a bachelor's from State. The lab job is part-time, which works out perfectly for David, leaving him plenty of time to pursue his MBA in accounting at State. David wants to teach accounting at PJCC when he completes his MBA. As a tutor, David has brought the accounting lab to life. He relates well with students, is an excellent tutor, and the faculty sees him as a valuable member of the department. In the two years he has worked in the lab, David has become good friends with Chong, the business department dean. They frequently have lunch together and even socialize with their wives outside of work. Last summer the families went camping together over the Merdeka weekend, and this year they expect to do the same. Chong is chair of the committee to find Harun's replacement. The committee consists of Chong, two additional faculty members, an administrator from another department and Leena, the department chair for business and accounting. On Monday morning, Leena met with Chong to plan out the recruitment process. "I know HR requires us to do job search," said Chong, "but even so, there's no reason why we can't move David into Harun's position. He relates well with our students, knows all the ins and outs of the college, and is well liked by the faculty." Leena is surprised at Chong's suggestion. "David is a nice guy, and we all like him," she said, "but he's not qualified. This position requires a master's degree, and he's only got a bachelors.""He doesn't need a master's degree to teach in the professional/technical program," said Chong. "He's perfectly qualified for that, and we have plenty of other faculty that can teach the transfer program. David is in school anyway. He'll get his MBA next year, and until then, we'll just schedule him for the professional/technical program, and we'll fit the other classes into other faculty members' schedules." "This is not how we normally replace faculty," said Leena. She was particularly disturbed that Chong's attitude indicated it was a done deal. "It's no problem," said Chong. "Recruitment is just an HR exercise anyway. I'll have the paperwork ready for your signature by tomorrow." The paperwork, marked "confidential," was in Leena's mailbox the following morning. It contained all the documents necessary for HR to launch a full-scale recruiting plan, including a new job description written by Chong. Instead of the broad-based job description for a faculty member qualified to teach universitytransferable and non-transfer classes, Leena found a job description that described David exactly. This is a set-up," Leena mumbled to herself. She knows that even with five members on the hiring committee and the required selection process, the actual hiring decision is left to the dean. "It looks like David's got the job no matter what.

What good is PJCC's ethics committee when the deans have the power to do as they please anyway?" What should Leena do?

Required:

(a) Elaborate the ethical issues in the case above. (10 marks)

(b) Identify and explain the position of the stakeholder involved in this case. (10 marks)

(c) Describe the actions and possible solution that can be taken by Leena. (20 marks)

(d) Elaborate Leena's action from utilitarian theory point of view. (10 marks)

(Total 50 marks)