Therein was her first ethical dilemma: should she remain quiet about this, or should she share this information with others and see what their response will be? Her boyfriend gave her worthy advice: keep this to yourself because if your boss is found to be accepting kickbacks, and this revelation results in his removal from the company, her unit may well be disbanded, or otherwise affected in a way unfriendly

Basically, she is confronting the issue of role ambiguity. Is it really her job to monitor corporate ethics and compliance or should she simply wait until her manager hangs himself through his own carelessness? This introduces another stressor that she faces, that is, one of career development. Turning her boss in jeopardizes her upward mobility. Ambiguity and threat to her career are big factors. The interpersonal relationships she has developed

She has two strong motivating reasons to not report the bribery. She could lose her work status in the United States and she would jeopardize her ability to receive her education. She owes herself and her partner a duty of care as well, to place value on her education and her ability to live in Chicago and therefore maintain the relationship. For Valerie, these considerations are powerful, since Waters'

Valerie's Dilemma The instruction file attached. "How Personal Can Ethics Get?" Discuss how personal differences and preference can impact organizational ethics. An organization is only as 'good' as its people. Vigilant ethical policies in writing are only useful if they are diligently upheld by the organization's leadership. In the case of Valerie's company Wilson Fragrance, this is obvious, as her superior Lionel Waters has engaged in flagrantly unethical policies virtually since his first days

Further, Valerie doesn't have any experience in the beauty industry other than Wisson, so the loss of a reference for this experience would be devastating. A loss of a job at Wisson would also mean that she would lose her tuition reimbursement for a master's of science program she has just been accepted to at the prestigious University of Chicago. Without this assistance, she might be unable to pay

Clearly from this case and others there is a critical need for the development of safeguards on consumer data captured over the Internet, both of the opt-in (where the customer approves the data being captured) and the non-opt-in variety. An Explicit Requirement for Transparency and Ethical Use of Data Consumers have become increasingly concerned that their data, however acquired, will eventually be sold without their knowledge, eventually leading to the potential