From an ethical perspective, should a boss provide a positive reference for a current employee's job application, even though he has shown poor performance in his role?

This new role has a pay increase, helping the employee support his family.

However, the employee may jeopardise the service at the new job.

Question:

Use the utilitarianism theory to evaluate whether the manager should lie and provide a positive reference or tell the truth and provide a negative reference.

i)Identify all the stakeholders affected by the proposed action

ii)Develop a list of consequences for those stakeholders (often two by two dimensions involving action/inaction; harm/benefit)

iii)Measure the pleasure and/or pain of each see Benthams dimensions

iv)Calculate the overall pleasure or pain of the options (use a table to format)