Chapter 6, Problem 1EDM

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Executive expressing disagreement with Mike’s approach:

In this scenario, the executive crossed the ethical line. It is because of the reasons given below:

• The executive tried to threaten Mike’s approach by giving some non-specific reasons...

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Overt actions taken by Mike:

“Yes”, Mike must inform others about the conversation. It is because of the following reasons:

• To gain support from others, Mike must tell others about the wrong implementation of the executive...

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Actions done by Mike that would not embarrass the other executives:

Without hurting or embarrassing the other executives, Mike could do the following things.

• Mike can conduct a meeting with the same executive to describe each and everything in detail...