A man has had a difficult time finding a job that pays enough to support his family. He has finally landed the job and has been working six months. He discovered that his manager is engaging in illegal activities on the job.

Emotional intelligence could be applied to this scenario by the man in the scenario making a decision to either be fired or stay with the company, and deal with the situation of his manager engaging in illegal activities. When being faced with these sort of issues, you must take into consideration that if anyone finds out that you do know about the situation it may come and bite you later. I was once put in this situation at my place of employment. I was being sexually harassed at work for a long period of time, until the situation became dangerous for me. I then later decided to let the superiors know about the situation, and found that they were very understanding, this situation later caused my manager to be terminated, and he has not been able to find any employment in the law enforcement field thus far. I feel that if there is something going on at work that makes you uncomfortable or uneasy, it is your duty to make sure you help protect the rest of your co-workers.
Successful intelligence could be used in the sense of finding a unique tactic for dealing with the situation at work. If the gentlemen involved can come up with a creative way to let a higher official know about the situation it may turn out where he would feel more comfortable. I feel that if he would send an anonymous letter to a superior, and let them make the decision about rather to investigate, or choose to not believe it. This may make the man more at ease, and it also takes the pressure off him, and into the officials hands. This leaves room for someone else to make the decision about what should be done with the manager. If nothing gets done, than he will be able to continue his job, even if there are wrong doings, just letting someone know would help him.
Factual knowledge about matters of life, knowing the outcome of the man’s situation may have an affect on what he decides to do. To me doing what is right seems to be the only way, but when it comes to employment, or any thing that may be part of your life will make it very difficult to make a decision that may affect everyone in a negative manner. Knowing that a situation could go either way, may cause one to decide to do the wrong thing, just so they do not become affected by the situation at hand.
Procedural knowledge is something that can be used to allow the man to come up with a way to deal with the situation that he is dealing with. He is going to want to come up with a plan that allows him to come up with a way to deal with things if he does tell someone about the situation. He is also going to need to find a way to deal with the situation if he decides not to tell anyone about the situation. It seems that he may also need to come up with a plan if he chooses to leave to job because he cannot deal with the situation at hand. He may need to come up with other strategies for dealing with what is going on in the workplace, and finding other means of coping.
Lifespan contextualism can be used by allowing the man to decide what decision to make. We all know, over time we all have many jobs, but at this time the man has already had a hard time finding employment, and may not want to risk going through any more obstacles for job hunting. I believe he may want to start looking for other employment while he works the job he has. People always say that a job is easier to find when you already have a job. I would say he needs to sit down and think on a broader scale, and find out if this is a job he will want to do for a long period of time, or if this job is something that he may want just until something better suited for him comes along.
Recognition and management of uncertainty comes in handy because you will always want to stop and think about all options available, and the outcome of all. For instance, if he decides to tell someone about the situation, but the situation is taken lightly, he may find himself jobless. At that point, he wont know if there is anything else out there and available for him. I think not knowing what is going to happen can cause people to make many poor decisions in life. This causes life changing decisions, simply because many people do not stop to think about all options for one situation.
Relativism regarding solutions can be applied by taking a minute to evaluate the manger. Maybe he is a person who doesn’t fully understand what he is doing is wrong, or knows its wrong, but doesn’t see the wrong in what he is doing. At his point you may want to take that under advisement, and maybe approach the manager with the issue and allow him to make a decision to stop doing what he is doing or allow him the opportunity to come clean with the superiors about the situation. I think approaching the situation like this may make things easier to handle. On the other hand, it may make the manager uneasy and cause him to retaliate on the man. In a situation like this, I think I would approach the manager first, and if that didn’t work I would then take it to the superiors about the situation. To me that gives the manger some time to think about what decisions he is making, and he can decide if it would be worth potentially losing his job over. Everyone in this day in age is trying to hold onto whatever job they get, so I think giving the manger a simple heads up on what is going on will make all the difference in the world.