Case study Assume you are the city manager of a financially strapped municipality and yourself worki...........

 Assume you are the city manager of a financially strapped municipality and yourself working uncharacteristically late one night in your office. The offices are empty and quiet and as you are leaving, you notice a sliver of light coming from the door of the new budget director, Sujata. You decide to stop in and praise her for her excellent report in which she discovered errors that will save the city crores of rupees, projecting for the first time in many years a budget surplus. As you approach her office, you can see through the

few inches the door is open that Sujata is in a passionate embrace with Garav, the assistant city manager. City employment policy strictly forbids dating between employees, threatening dismissal to those who do.

Your code of ethics requires you to enforce this policy, yet at the same time you do not want to lose either or both of these valuable employees. It would be difficult, if ot impossible, to bring in someone else with their experience and credentials for the amount of money the city is able to pay.

Discussion questions

1. What should you do?

2. Should you report Sujata and Gaurav in accordance with policy?

3. Should you overlook the situation believing the city will be best served in the long run?

4. Should you speak to each of them and threaten to tell if they don''t, end the relationship?

Ethical reasoning questions

1. Is there an ethical issue facing the city mare get? Sujata? Gaurav?

2. What is the ethical issue?

3. What might be done to resolve the situation?

4. Does the preferred course of action satisfy the needs/preferences of the primary stakeholders?

5. Is the preferred course of action ethical?

By: Mona Kaushal