Question: 1. Is lying a routine ingredient in American sales practice? Explain.
2. Assume you are working as manager of women's clothing in a large department store. You observe the manager of equivalent rank to you in men's clothing performing poorly in that she arrives late for work, she keeps records ineptly, and she is rude to customers. Her work, however, has no direct impact on your department.
a. Do you have any responsibility either to help her or to report her poor performance? Explain.
b. If the store as a whole performs poorly, but you have performed well, do you bear any personal responsibility for the store's failure in that you confined your efforts exclusively to your own department even though you witnessed mismanagement in the men's clothing department? Explain.
3. We are often confronted with questions about the boundaries of our personal responsibilities.
a. How much money, if any, must you give to satisfy your moral responsibility in the event of a famine in a foreign country? Explain.
b. Would your responsibility be greater if the famine were in America? Explain.