Question

4. You’ve been told confidentially by management that your branch office is to be closed. You will be transferred, but all 23 of your employees will be let go. So as not to disrupt productivity, you are forbidden to tell your people in advance. You: a. Defy the order and let your people know exactly what’s happening. b. Plant a rumor and plan to deny responsibility for it. c. Obey the order and worry about what explanations you’ll make to distraught employees later. Explain your choice.

Answer 1

a. Defy the order and let your people know exactly what’s happening.

As a manager of the branch office, I need to think about the employees as well because we work as an unit and therefore the collective objective needs to be served and hiding the truth will be very much u ethical and immoral as well from a manager and employee perspective.