WHAT WOULD YOU DO? After graduation, you obtain a job as a Google engineer and are soon promoted to manager. Your subordinates are remarkably talented, committed, hard workers, mission driven, and idealistic.' They chose Google not only for its high pay and benefits but also because of its corporate culture symbolized by Google's mission statement ["Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" I, vision statement ["To provide an important service to the world-instantly delivering information on virtually any topic"l, and motto loriginally "Don't Be Evil" and then changed to "Do the Right Thing"l. A recent series of events makes you wonder if employees are taking Google's motto too thr. First, in February 2018, Google employees, having used their engineering skilts to search company intranet sites, made public Project Maven, a potential $250 miltion annual contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to develop drone technology that could be used to search for and kill people. Second, in August 2018, Dragonfly, a secret project to develop technology that the Chinese government could use to censor search results, was made public. Third, just two months later, the New York Times, most likely based on internat Google documents, reported that a high-level executive received a $90 miltion exit package after being dismissed following sexual misconduct complaints. This led to 20,000 Google employees worldwide staging a walkout to protest their concerns that Google was violating its core values as stated in the mission and vision statements and motto. Some of your subordinates were interviewed during an internal investigation for the teaked secrel projects. To the surprise of management, the information seems to have been obtained through creative intranet searches without violating internat data-security policies. But executives plan to fire four employee activist leaders on the same day, the Monday after Thanksgiving, to send a strong corporate message and quiet escatating employee dis: sent. One of them is in your department. You are instructed to terminate your subordinate for violating data-security policies, even though technically that is not the case. Critical Thinking Questions a. Do as instructed and tell her she is being terminated for violating data-security policies b. Terminate her but don't provide a reason why c. Refuse to terminate her because it seems as if she technically did not violate datasecurity policies d. Something else lif so, what?] 3. Why is this the right option to choose? 4. What are the ethics underlying your decision
