Dear Class,
This is the Discussion for Week 2 and it consists of one of the Discussion Questions from the end of Chapter 2. Your response to this question will only be submitted to me and I am looking for you to provide your opinion and thoughts in coherent and complete sentences. Your response should be a paragraph or two of about 150 -200 words.
This Discussion will be open for one week, from July 12, 2021, at 12:00 am until July 18, 2021, at 11:59 pm.
Thank you,
J. White
Discussion Question:
I was a plant manager at a factory that used a lot of steel equipment. When a piece of equipment failed and was not worth repairing, it was sold for scrap. Plant managers usually kept the scrap money for themselves without telling headquarters. That money was considered an unofficial bonus. (After all, the equipment was no longer functional, and plant managers are underpaid.) I felt a little uncomfortable taking the money, but my boss warned me that, if I didn’t, I would make the other plant managers look bad. I could have paid off my credit card debt with that money but, instead, I hosted an employee BBQ and bought work boots for the low-wage workers. Did I do the right thing? What traps did I face?