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Take the role of a mid-level manager at Pegasus from the Case of the Million Dollar Decision. If the CEO decides to go ahead with the payoff scheme and you are told to execute it. What do you do and why?

http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/million.html

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This is a discussion of middle management ethics at a company called Pegasus International.

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Middle Management Ethics at Pegasus International

Take the role of a mid-level manager at Pegasus from the Case of the Million Dollar Decision. If the CEO decides to go ahead with the payoff scheme and you are told to execute it. What do you do and why?
http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/million.html

I would personally refuse to help upper management carry out the payoff scheme because ethically that is the right thing to do. Going through with the payoffs would be violating Pegasus's own ethical guidelines and is likely to lead to bad results for which I personally would be held accountable.

There is a tendency for employees to act unethically when an ethical code does not exist in a company or is when one exists but is ignored by the company's top managers. ...

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