Ethics

For the Good of the School: Handling a Burned-Out Employee (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1993

The president of a small-town college must decide whether and/or how to fire a long-time director of athletics, whose performance had been deteriorating but who is a widely known and popular figure in the community--and who, after long years of...

For the Good of the School: Handling a Burned-Out Employee

Publication Date: January 01, 1993

The president of a small-town college must decide whether and/or how to fire a long-time director of athletics, whose performance had been deteriorating but who is a widely known and popular figure in the community--and who, after long years of...

Mores vs. Morals: A Teacher's Privacy and a School Board's Standards

Publication Date: January 01, 1993

A small-town Alaska teacher faces dismissal by a school board because, she suspects, she had begun to live with a man to whom she was not married. The situation is complicated by the fact that the man is a native of the small town and she an...

Disability Issues in the Workplace

Publication Date: January 01, 1993

This composite case explores the managerial, ethical, and logistical issues that arise when a federal employee is diagnosed with breast cancer and has difficulty dealing with her job responsibilities and co-worker reactions. The case ends with...

Regulating the "Cloak and Gown" Relationship: The Harvard CIA Guidelines (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

On the eve of the release of its bombshell report in early 1976, the head of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence quietly informs Harvard University officials that some of the school's faculty members have had secret relationships with...

Regulating the "Cloak and Gown" Relationship: The Harvard CIA Guidelines

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

On the eve of the release of its bombshell report in early 1976, the head of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence quietly informs Harvard University officials that some of the school's faculty members have had secret relationships with...

An Openly Gay Man in Politics: The Story of Michael Duffy

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

This case recounts the political career of a gay Republican who, first, decides to run against an incumbent state legislator who has traditionally been a liberal advocate of gay rights, and, second, decides to accept a Republican governor's...

Dealing with Corruption in the Police Force of La Paz (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

A reform mayor of Bolivia's capital city is taken aback by a consultant's report showing a shocking level of corruption on the part of municipal police-a force whose many duties involve regulation of the city's sprawling open-air markets...

Dealing with Corruption in the Police Force of La Paz

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

A reform mayor of Bolivia's capital city is taken aback by a consultant's report showing a shocking level of corruption on the part of municipal police-a force whose many duties involve regulation of the city's sprawling open-air markets...

A Policewoman's (Non) Use of Deadly Force

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

The new and growing presence of women in the police department of Houston, Texas does more than create a need for a new locker room. Women appear to introduce a different sense of policing tactics, particularly as regards the police response to...

"Affective Response": Market Pressures and Medical Practice in the Career of a Young Nurse

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This case--one in a series of nursing/health care management cases--explores the boom and bust cycle psychiatric hospitals in Houston went through during the 1980s. It follows a single nurse as he gains increased responsibilities, just as the...

President Salinas' "Untouchables": Fighting Corruption in Mexico

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This case explores the issue of widespread and persistent corruption, and the ways in which it so often complicates economic and political development strategies. It recounts the events of the anti-corruption campaign waged during the first two...