The entire assignment is based on the following scenario:

You work as a middle manager at a large bank in Los Angeles that *strongly* encourages employee volunteerism, allowing employees one day a month, or up to 12 days a year, to volunteer for a cause of their choosing. At the bank, youre trying your best and a decent job as a middle manager, but nothing special. Youre not in contention for any promotion, raise, bonus, or other career rewards (i.e., employee of the month). Youre qualified for your position as middle manager, but the other middle managers at the bank are MUCH more qualified for promotion to the open position of senior bank officer. Youre aware of this and disappointed since the salary associated with the senior bank officer position would allow you to move your family out of a particularly dangerous section of Los Angeles. You dont feel safe living at your current apartment. Moreover, your parents as well as your spouses parents have all been robbed at least once in the past year. They try to reassure you that they are okay, but you have overheard their private conversations, you know that they worry that they may eventually be assaulted, and you know that they are hoping you can help them.

One Saturday, as youre complaining to a friend about your situation while eating lunch, you ask your friend for advice regarding how to impress your boss. Upon hearing your bosss name, your friend (who works as the insurance claims processor of a large hospital Los Angeles) informs you that he recently processed an insurance claim involving your bosss wife and wonders if the information from the claim could be useful for you. You inform your friend that the information could help you learn more about your boss in order to become closer to him and convince him to promote you to Junior bank officer. Despite your awareness of HIPAA laws that forbid your friend from disclosing someones private medical information, you ask your friend to share the information.

Your friend informs you that your bosss wife is receiving specialized treatment due to recently being diagnosed with a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer and her odds of survival are 50/50. As a result of learning about this information, you quickly come up with the ideal charity for your volunteering efforts: You choose the local chapter of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundationa breast cancer charity that sponsors an annual Race for the Curefor your company-sponsored volunteer work. Youre so confident about the eventual success of your strategy that you feel guilty about how your success will impact the other middle managers seeking promotion. So, you occasionally help them out in various ways (e.g., bringing dinner to the office, helping their children learn a new language, complimenting them on their appearance even though they arent attractive).

In addition to working at the foundations office one day a month, you spend your own time actively soliciting other employees at your bank to sign up for the charity walk in a few months time. Your volunteering quickly overshadows the volunteering efforts of the other middle managers. Impressed with your qualities of tireless dedication, your boss puts your name forward for promotion to senior bank officer even though there were multiple middle managers who have worked more years at the bank and whose performance at the bank has consistently been better than your performance. The promotion will include a SIGNIFICANT salary increase.

In anticipation of the salary increase, you obtain documentation from the bank (indicating the forthcoming promotion) and use the documentation to sign leases for housing for yourself, your parents, and your spouses parents in a much nicer part of Los Angeles. After 6 months in your new role, you are the top performing senior bank officer. Your boss compliments your performance and informs you of his expectations for the next few years. You smile upon hearing the expectations, realizing you will be able to maintain your high performance.

NOTE: Some of the questions below have more than one potential correct answer.

1A. Which of the Kidder common dilemmas is represented in the above scenario? State ONE dilemma and justify your statement with some evidence from the scenario.

1B. Based on the justice approach, is your promotion to senior bank officer ethical? Justify your answer with evidence from the scenario.

1C. Based on the utilitarian approach, is your promotion to senior bank officer ethical? Justify your answer with evidence from the scenario.

1D. Based on the consequentialist approach, is your promotion to senior bank officer ethical? Justify your answer with evidence from the scenario.

1E. Based on the moral-rights approach, is your promotion to senior bank officer an ethical? Justify your answer with a combination of your *actual* perspective on moral-rights along with evidence from the scenario.

1F. Based on a review of your thoughts and actions in the scenario, which level of Kohlbergs model of moral development is evident in this scenario? Justify your answer with evidence from the scenario.

1G. Was there any evidence of moral licensing in the above scenario? If not, all you need to do is to say "no". If so, you need to say "yes" and provide the evidence.