lo 12 REDSTONE COMPTECH ANALYTIKS Aleeyah Watlington-Smith is a Cost Analyst for Redstone CompTech,, a technology research company located in Phoenix, Arizona. One of her responsibilities is to make future research cost projections. Back in September 2017, Aleeyah made a highly favorable projection of costsafor the next 8 years for Redstone's new generation computer, LIFETIMETECHIE Aleeyah presented the peojections to the R&D Group who decided expand research and development of the computer. This decision ledlo dislocations of some plant personnel who were reassigned to one of the company's newest plants in Lansing, Michigan. Fortunately, no employoes we terminated. In fact, an additional 125 people were hired at the new Michigan facility Last week, on May 31 Aleeyah rechecked her computations cn the cost projections. Unexpectedly she found that he had made an error that would increase her cost projectioes substantially. It is very fortunate, however, that costs of LIFETIMETECHIE computers had NOT yet exceeded previous cost projections and management is very pleased with the decision to expand rescarch and development on the project Alecyah is not sure what to do now. She wonders if she should confess her honest mistake and possibly jeopardize any possible promotions she might be granted. She reasons that no one will catch the error because cost of LIFETIMETECHIE had not greatly exceeded peojections to date. What's more interesting is that it appears that costs will materialize close to the peojections. Wrise a memo to Aleeyah Watlington-Smith. Address the following questions about which Ms. Watlington-Smith has concems I. Who are the stakeholders in this situations and what are the potential risks associated with each? 2. Identify the ethical issues involved in this situations. 3. What are the possible alsernative actions for Aleeyah? 4. What do you recommend that Aleeyah should do lo 12 REDSTONE COMPTECH ANALYTIKS Aleeyah Watlington-Smith is a Cost Analyst for Redstone CompTech,, a technology research company located in Phoenix, Arizona. One of her responsibilities is to make future research cost projections. Back in September 2017, Aleeyah made a highly favorable projection of costsafor the next 8 years for Redstone's new generation computer, LIFETIMETECHIE Aleeyah presented the peojections to the R&D Group who decided expand research and development of the computer. This decision ledlo dislocations of some plant personnel who were reassigned to one of the company's newest plants in Lansing, Michigan. Fortunately, no employoes we terminated. In fact, an additional 125 people were hired at the new Michigan facility Last week, on May 31 Aleeyah rechecked her computations cn the cost projections. Unexpectedly she found that he had made an error that would increase her cost projectioes substantially. It is very fortunate, however, that costs of LIFETIMETECHIE computers had NOT yet exceeded previous cost projections and management is very pleased with the decision to expand rescarch and development on the project Alecyah is not sure what to do now. She wonders if she should confess her honest mistake and possibly jeopardize any possible promotions she might be granted. She reasons that no one will catch the error because cost of LIFETIMETECHIE had not greatly exceeded peojections to date. What's more interesting is that it appears that costs will materialize close to the peojections. Wrise a memo to Aleeyah Watlington-Smith. Address the following questions about which Ms. Watlington-Smith has concems I. Who are the stakeholders in this situations and what are the potential risks associated with each? 2. Identify the ethical issues involved in this situations. 3. What are the possible alsernative actions for Aleeyah? 4. What do you recommend that Aleeyah should do
