Your company is fairly progressive and has started to use peer-evaluations in the performance evaluation process with the idea that nobody knows team members behaviors better than the team. Each individual completes a self-evaluation and then one evaluation on each member of the team. The overall average is used to calculate performance grades for each team member. Dave, one of your teammates is not fond of Sherry; in fact its fair to say hed rather work with anyone but Sherry. They are both good performers but Dave confides in you that hes afraid she will give him poor ratings. Anticipating this likelihood, Dave tells you that he feels like he has no other choice but to provide Sherry with lower ratings so as to counteract the effect of her lower ratings of him. Which of the following actions would be most helpful to Dave in promoting an ethical choice?

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Ask Dave to consider other potential options regardless of whether he is right or wrong about Sherry.

Call your companys confidential ethics hotline to inform senior management that people are abusing the performance management system.

Tell Dave that lying is never the answer especially since he doesnt know for sure that Sherry will behave as he fears.

Tell Dave that although you appreciate his candor, you now have no other choice but to contact your boss about the situation