Management 13th Edition by John Schermerhorn,Daniel Bachrach

Exercise 6

KNOW RIGHT FROM WRONG
"Why don't I pass this information along anonymously so that everyone knows what's going on "
Information Goldmine Creates Equity Dilemma

A worker opens the top of the office photocopier and finds a document someone has left behind. It's a list of performance evaluations, pay, and bonuses for 80 co-workers. She reads the document, and finds something very surprising. Someone she considers a "nonstarter" is getting paid more than others regarded as "super workers." New hires are also being brought in at much higher pay and bonuses than those of current staff. To make matters worse, she's in the middle of the list and not near the top, where she would have expected to be. The fact is she makes a lot less money than many others.
Looking at the data, she begins to question why she is spending extra hours working evenings and weekends at home, trying to do a really great job for the firm. She wonders to herself: "Should I pass this information around anonymously so that everyone knows what's going on Or should I quit and find another employer who fully values me for my talents and hard work "
In the end she decided to quit, saying: "I just couldn't stand the inequity." She also decided not to distribute the information to others in the office because "it would make them depressed, like it made me depressed."
WHAT DO YOU THINK
What would you do in this situation You're going to be concerned and perhaps upset. Would you hit "print," make about 80 copies, and put them in everyone's mailboxes-or even just leave them stacked in a couple of convenient locations That would get the information out into the gossip chains pretty quickly. But is this ethical If you don't send out the information, on the other hand, is it ethical to let other workers go about their days with inaccurate assumptions about the firm's pay practices By quitting and not sharing the information, did this worker commit an ethics mistake