G-biosport dilemma worksheet – 5 of 5

G-BioSport Dilemma Worksheet – 5 of 5

The Problem: The Case of the Brightest and the Best

From the increased communication and reports, the Board of Directors has indicated that new hires have to be one of the company’s top priorities, despite the fact that the financial situation remains unstable. In the current job market, finding new hires at the salaries the Gnomengen Group can afford is very difficult. Faced with increased pressure for more manpower from all levels, you have decided to examine current hiring practices and policies.

One proposed solution to the hiring situation is to advertise your positions at salaries above what you know you can pay. When applicants are interviewed, they are told that their skills do not match “the optimal skill set we were assuming in advertising that salary.” Thus, if they want the job, they are forced to take the lower salary that you intended to pay from the beginning, with the promise that if their skill set increases, they may be able to work up to the pay scale that you had advertised. The expectation is that by drawing on a larger applicant pool, the number of hires should increase, and because of stock options employee retention is expected to stay high.

Please complete each section of this worksheet. Some people find that writing the answers out on another page and then “cutting and pasting” them into the worksheet lets you think through the problem better. 

If you only have time to do part of this worksheet, click the “save work” button at the bottom of this page. At any later time, you can then return to this worksheet and continue.

Return to Awareness

1. Reflection for Networking
   

   Write a reflection which discusses whether or not the ethical analysis made sense. In this reflection, also indicate how you have corrected for personal bias, attended to the common good, and acted with courage.

After you have completed your reflection, you have one more choice to make. If your responses on the five Worksheets that comprise this assignment are in final form, you should click the “final submit” button. This action will finalize your work and complete your assignment. However if you want to edit any of your responses, you should click the “save as draft” button. This action will keep your work in an editable form so that you can review and modify it.

PLEASE NOTE: If you keep your responses in a draft form then your assignment is not done! You will still need to do a final submit from your Memo page before the assignment Due Date in order not to suffer any financial penalties for late work. 

If you are satisfied that your work is in final form, click the “final submit” button.

PLEASE NOTE: The “save work” option allows you to save your reflection as a work in progress. You will still need to return to this page, complete your reflection, and then choose either “final submit” to complete your assignment or “save as draft” to continue the editing process. 

If you wish to save your current reflection and then return to this worksheet at a later time, click the “save work” button below. Please note that this action will truncate any response that exceeds the 2,000 character limit.