Assignment: Chapter 5 Exercises
WEEK 4, CHAPTER 5 EXERCISES
Please refer to the textbook for information that may help you complete these exercises.
Exercise 5-1: Identify What Power Can Do
Identify three ways employees without legitimate power can reward others.
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Exercise 5-2: Receiving a Gift at Work
Your company has a strict policy on not accepting gifts valued over $15. A key vendor for your company sends you flowers on your birthday. The arrangement is quite large, so you know it clearly exceeds the $15 limit. What do you do?
Exercise 5-3: Legal Behavior – Based on Cory’s dilemma, answer the three levels of ethical behavior questions.
1. Is Cory borrowing money from the petty cash box legal?
Yes ___ No ___
2. Is this behavior fair?
Yes ___ No ___
3. Would you feel bad about taking the money, why?
Yes ___ No ___
Whom could it harm and why?
Exercise 5-4: Honesty—Part I
It is 9:00 p.m., it is raining, and you are hungry. You are on your way home from a long workday. You only have $5 in your wallet, so you decide to go to a fast-food drive-through to get dinner. You order carefully so as not to exceed your $5 limit. You hand the drive-through employee your $5, and he gives you change and your meal. You place it all in the passenger’s seat and drive home. When you get home, you discover that the fast-food employee gave you change for $20. What would you do?
Review the scenario; and apply the three levels of ethical decision making to the following questions.
Is it legal to keep the money?
Yes ___ No ___
Is it fair to keep the money?
Yes ___ No ___
Do you feel bad about keeping the money?
Yes ___ No ___
Exercise 5-5: Honesty—Part II
Typically, in the fast-food business, employees whose cash boxes are short or over more than once are at risk of being fired. If you initially were going to keep the money, but now you know the employee who gave you too much cash could get fired because you decided to keep the money, would you still keep the money?
Exercise 5-6: What Do You See?
Look around the room and list at least three differences between you and your classmates.
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Exercise 5-7: Look for Prejudice
What areas of prejudice do you see on campus? What areas of prejudice do you see in your community?