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10.15. Your company sends you to a foreign country to take part in the bidding for a large construction project. Once you get there, your associates in the country tell you the bribing rates for the officials in charge of taking the bids. What should you do? A. Refuse to bribe the officials, knowing you will certainly lose the project? B. Bribe the officials at double the ongoing rate, to ensure that you get the project? C. Go along with the bribing scheme, knowing that it is the only way your project will be considered? D. Do something else? (If so, what?) Use one or more of the following heuristics - the four virtues, four-component model, evaluation checklist, ethics checklist, and five P's - to help you analyze each of these options. Problem contributed by Dr. Susan Montgomery, University of Michigan, 1992. 10.16. Your boss takes you out on the town dining the first weekend of your summer job, not knowing that you are still under the legal drinking age. In the restaurant, everyone at your table orders a drink. What should you do? A. Order a beer, wanting to fit in, and hope the server doesn't check your ID? B. Order a beer, wanting to fit in, and be ready with your false ID in case the server asks for one? C. Do something else? (If so, what?) Use one or more of the following heuristics - the four virtues, four-component model, evaluation checklist, ethics checklist, and five P's - to help you analyze each of these options. Problem contributed by Dr. Susan Montgomery, University of Michigan. 199