An Ethical Dilemma

1. Sophie has many issues to resolve after her training and conversation that she had with Emma. First of all, this is Sophie's first real job out of school and all the information that she has just received from Emma probably has her in a storm of questions of why Emma and her colleagues do the things the way they do. Sophie has probably figured out that Emma and the others actions are probably not the best because her training demonstrated a different outcome of certain situations. Sophie has learned from Emma that in their accounting department they do not provide space on the expense vouchers for extra expenses such as “tipping waitresses, waiters, cab drivers, bellhops, airport baggage and handlers” (page 2). Sophie then finds out that Emma along with other workers have a way of going around the issue without getting caught. Emma explains that as long as all the salespeople “cooperate” there is no way the vice president will question them as Emma explained “I tip 20 percent, so I make sure I write down when I tip and add that to my overall expense report” (page 2). Sophie at this point knows for a fact that this is against company policy. Emma then brought up a past situation that involved someone who brought up this behavior to the vice president, then that person getting fired at the end.

2. Sophie needs to figure a way out to avoid trouble and keep her job, she has gathered information from Emma that will lead her to making a final decision. In my opinion I don’t think she should fall into the company culture of doing things. She even recalls from the video “There were a lot of memos and even a thirty minute video as to the proper way to record expenses. All of them had conversations with the vice president, but no one was fired” (page 2). Sophie should have hope and do some more research so that she can attempt to speak to the vice