HUMA 1745 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ebay
HUMA 1745 Tutorial 5 Notes – Five Ethical Decisions: What Would You Do?
Introduction
• Assume that you are a middle manager in a company with about 1000 employees.
• How would you respond to each of the following situations?
• You are negotiating a contract with a potentially very large customer whose
representative has hinted that you could almost certainly be assured of getting his
business if you gave him and his wife an all-expenses-paid cruise to the Caribbean.
• You know the represetatie’s eploer ould ot approe of suh a paoff, ut ou
have the discretion to authorize such expenditure.
• What would you do?
• You have an autographed CD by Sam Roberts and put it up for sale on eBay.
• So far, the highest bid is $74.50.
• A friend has offered you $100 for the CD, commenting that he could get $150 for it on
eBay in a year.
• You know this is highly unlikely.
• Should you sell your friend the CD for what he offered ($100)?
• Do you have an obligation to tell your friend you have listed your CD on eBay?
• Your company policy on reimbursement for meals while travelling on company business
is that you will be repaid for your out-of-pocket costs, which are not to exceed $80 a
day.
• You do’t eed reeipts for these epeses—the company will take your word.
• When travelling, you tend to eat at fast-food places and rarely spend in excess of $20 a
day.
• Most of your colleagues submit reimbursement requests in the range of $55 to $60 a
day regardless of what their actual expenses are.
• How much would you request for your meal reimbursements?
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