Assume that you work for a midsized non$-$union company. The firm is facing its most serious union$-$organizing campaign in years, and your boss is determined to keep the union out. He has just given you a list of tasks that should thwart organizers$$ efforts. For example, he has suggested the following:

Whenever you learn about a scheduled union information meeting, you should schedule a worker appreciation event at the same time. He wants you to offer free pizza and barbecue and to give cash prizes. The winners have to be present to receive their prizes.

He wants you to look at the most recent performance evaluations of the key union organizers and terminate the one with the lowest overall evaluation.

He wants you to make an announcement that the firm is seriously considering new benefits such as on$-$site child care, flexible work schedules, telecommuting options, and exercise facilities. While you know the firm is indeed looking into these benefits and several others, you also know that ultimately what is provided will be far less lavish than your boss wants you to delicately communicate.

When you questioned the ethics and legality of these practices, he responded by saying, $$Look$,$ all$$s fair in love and war, and this is war.$$ He went on to explain that if the union wins, the company might actually shut down its domestic operations altogether and move all of its production capacities to lower$-$cost foreign plants.

He concluded by saying that he was really looking out for the benefit of the employees, even if he had to play hardball to help them. And indeed, while you can see through his hypocrisy, you also recognize that there is some potential truth in his warning $$ if the union wins, jobs may actually be lost.