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Prepare a paper analyzing a professional dilemma conflict that you experienced before you began your major course of study or during your program of studies at the university you are attending. Be sure to complete all three sections of the assignment.

a. Describe the experience:
1) What was the ethical issue you experienced?
2) Who was involved? (Please use only first names or initials for the participants.)
3) What was the relationship of the other individual(s) to you?
b. Analyze the ethical dilemma:
1) Was there a difference in power and authority? Explain.
2) What were the ethics in question?
3) What personal values were in conflict?
4) What were the potential outcomes?
5) What were the potential consequences to you and the other parties involved?
c. Evaluate the outcome
1) What was the outcome at the time?
2) What were the consequences to you and the other parties involved?
3) Based on what you have learned since you began your program of study and through your continuing work experience, would you handle the situation differently or in the same way? Explain.

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Prepare a paper analyzing a professional dilemma conflict that you experienced before you began your major course of study or during your program of studies at the university you are attending. Be sure to complete all three sections of the assignment.

a. Describe the experience:

1) What was the ethical issue you experienced?
The ethical issue that I experienced happened before I began my major course of study. I was working as a supervisor in a forging factory where I came across a fraud being perpetrated by the production manager. The fraud was that finished forged products were being sold off by truckloads as scrap. The value realized as scrap was very low. This is what the company got but the difference between the price of the good parts and scrap value was pocketed by the production manager. The entire scheme was being carried out routinely and cost the firm a sizeable sum of money.
The ethical issue that I experienced was if I exposed a corruption scheme that was carried out in my company then I was likely to be punished. I might lose my job; there would be a blemish on my reputation as I would be given a poor reference.

2) Who was involved? (Please use only first names or initials for the participants.)
The production manager of the company that I was a supervisor in was the key person. There were several other employees without whose help, the scheme could not have been carried out by the manager but the extent of their involvement is not clear to me.

3) What was the relationship of the other individual(s) to you?
The relationship of the production manager to me ...

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