In the case: Cecilia is the CEO of a mid-sized company. One of Cecilia's favorite expressions is If people don't like working here, we'll help them leave." She has been at the company only a year, and people are not sure how seriously to take her. But in the past year, Cecilia has identified several top managers she thought were not a good fit with the company, and she helped them leave. Many of the remaining managers are now nervous about losing their jobs and are careful not to say or do anything to confront her.

Cecilia meets weekly with her 10 top-level managers. During these meetings, she often makes fun of other staff who are not present, or the members of the Board of Directors, mocking them and imitating them in an unflattering way.

During these times, some of the managers laugh at her antics, while others look down at their notes, sneaking looks at the other managers at the table to try to gauge their reactions. Early on, when the CEO had just joined the company, one of the managers asked a pointed question about the ethical boundaries of the comapany. She became angry and accused him of having no sense of humor. He was demoted soon threreafter. Since then, no one at the company has left comfortable speaking up, or calling her out on her mockery of staff and Board members. No one wants to go over her head and tell the Board of Directors what is going on. So Cecilia just continues this behavior, and now people expect it of her and see it as normal. Some of the managers who report to her also now engage in the same mocking and demeaning behavior."

1. How does this situation present an ethics issue? How is the scenario related to the myths of ethics in the work place?