Think about why ethics are especially important in today$$s business environment and complete the following sentence.

If your manager is honest, fair, and kind and enforces that behavior in others, then you have an ethical manager manager.

Which of the following represent ethical dilemmas? Check all that apply.

Belinda volunteers at an animal shelter. It breaks her heart when animals need to be euthanized. Rex$$s time runs out tomorrow. Ms$.$ Splatt wants to adopt him, but everything about Ms$.$ Splatt$$s profile indicates that she will probably be a neglectful, if not downright abusive, dog owner. The shelter$$s policy says that volunteers should never allow someone like Ms$.$ Splatt to adopt an animal. Belinda wonders whether she should let Rex go to a bad home, to an owner who might abandon him to the streets or worse, or whether she should hope he gets adopted by someone else tomorrow before his time runs out.

At a family get$-$together, Thom$$s brother has quite a bit to drink and says that his company is about to file major new patents on technology that is expected to be highly profitable. Thom already owns quite a bit of stock in his brother$$s company, and he was planning to sell most of it soon because the company$$s results have been poor. Now, however, he thinks he should probably hold on to the stock.

If Saylee reports another $$1,000$ of sales this month, she gets an extra $10$ percent commission. She has a verbal commitment from a regular customer to place a $$1,000$ order on the first day of next month. Since she knows now that the sale will occur, she is considering reporting it as happening in the current month.

According to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act $($FLSA$),$ so$-$called $$nonexempt$$ workers must be paid for all time worked. Damion manages a number of part$-$time nonexempt employees, and he really needs them to work more hours this week to meet a deadline. However, if he pays them for their time, he will go over budget, and his boss will be angry at him. He wonders whether he should ask his employees to work the extra hours and accept $$comp time,$$ or time off work a different week, instead of their hourly wage.