Chapter 6 Employee's Ethics: Getting a Job, Getting a Promotion, Leaving Case Study: Dirty Tricks 1. The exposure trick: Coercing a coworker by threatening to make public a professional or personal problem. If you're angling for a raise, and you know something damaging about your supervisor, you may be tempted by the tactic of exposure. Imagine you know that your supervisor has a prescription drug habit and it's getting worse. Her performance at the office has been imbalanced but not so erratic as to raise suspicions. You plan to confront her and say you'll spill the beans unless she gets you a raise. Whose interests are involved here? What responsibilities do you have to each of them? What ethical justification could you draw up to justify your threat? 2. The bystander trick: Knowing that someone is in trouble but standing on the sidelines and doing nothing even when intervention is clearly appropriate and would be helpful to the business. At an upholstering company you're in competition for a promotion with a guy who learned the craft in jail, through the Department of Corrections' job-training course. He hadn't revealed that fact to anyone, but now the truth has come to light. You've worked with him on a lot of assignments and seen that he's had a chance to make off with some decent jewelry but hasn't taken anything. You could speak up to defend him, but you're tempted to use the bystander trick to increase the odds that you'll win the duel. What ethical argument could you draw up to convince yourself that you shouldn't stand there and watch, but instead you should help your adversary out of the jam? CONTEXT SOURCE: Business Ethics: Chapter 6 Case Study - https://2012books.lardbucket.org/books/business-ethics/s10-employee-s-ethics-getting-a-jo.html Business Ethics v 1.0 https://2012books.lardbucket.org/books/business-ethics/