As a company which employs scientists and lab techs, you know that your most valued asset is the creativity of your employees. You also know that creativity doesnt always show up between the designated hours of 8 and 5. Thus, you have a very open flex time schedule for your employees. However, you have been noticing that some of your staff are abusing the privilege. The 45 people involved in the manufacturing group are not a problem as they work designated shifts and are responsible. However, some of the 30 Ph.D. qualified scientists and 60 college educated lab techs are coming in late, leaving early, and not being fully present for their designated 40 hours a week. As you explore the situation, you discover that five of the scientists are part of the problem. Two of them are your most productive scientists and responsible for some of your major product breakthroughs. Three of the scientists are performing adequately but are not exceptionally productive. About 10% of the tech staff are also playing fast and loose with their hours. Again, three are very productive, exceeding expectations as far as their work while the other six are adequate to below-adequate performers. After brainstorming with the leadership team, you have identified four options:

1. Handle the issue individually. Make the focus on productivity rather than whether "face time" has been met by meeting the requirements of the clock.
2. Do not make any change and send an intranet message to all employees that people need to pay attention to their hours and be responsible for making sure that they work the designated hours.
3. Institute a policy where each person has to wear a badge with a global positioning device and log when people come and go. Meet with those individually who are not at work their full 40 hours per week.
4. Get rid of all flex time and institute a policy where people have to be at work at designated times and take designated breaks. "Write up" those who do not comply.

Assuring Justice: In three to four coherent paragraphs, compare and contrast your options using the Relationship Lens. In the process, consider the following questions:

• Basic Liberties: What are the basic liberties to which each person is entitled? These liberties include right to speech and right to notice.
• Just Savings Principle: Which option best assures that our resources will be available for next generations?
• Equal Opportunity for Success: How well does each option assure that social and economic inequalities are arranged so that all constituents have an equal opportunity for success?
• Reflective Equilibrium: Using the tool of reflective equilibrium, which option gives the best advantage to the least advantaged without unduly burdening those who are the most advantaged? .ting people the way they have freely consented to be treated? Am I treating them as means to my ends or with dignity, as ends in themselves?
• Ecology of Care: Which option best contributes to an ecology of care? Which option best meets the requirement for building a strong community and strong institutions?