Situational & Ethical Analysis — Practice

Question 1

An intern, Vivaan, accidentally sends an internal team email to an external client's mailing list instead of the internal team. The email contains no confidential information, only a routine internal status update that would look mildly unprofessional if noticed by the client. What should Vivaan do first?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 2

Arjun, a sales associate, realizes after closing a deal that he quoted the client a discount rate slightly better than his manager had authorized, due to a genuine misunderstanding of the approved rate. The client is happy, and the deal is signed. The discrepancy is small enough that it's unlikely to be noticed in a routine review. What should Arjun do?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 3

A team lead, Kavya, is finalizing a performance-based bonus pool. She discovers her close friend and top-performing team member, Dev, submitted a self-assessment that overstates his contribution to a project two other team members also worked on substantially. What should Kavya do?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 4

A startup's growth lead, Ishaan, finds that reclassifying a portion of paid marketing spend as a different budget category would make the quarter's customer acquisition cost metric look significantly better for an upcoming investor update, without technically altering any actual number's accuracy in isolation, just its presentation. What should Ishaan do?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 5

A company policy requires all expense reimbursements to be submitted within 30 days, with no exceptions stated in the written policy. An employee, Meera, submits a legitimate, well-documented expense 35 days late because she was on approved medical leave for the entire submission window. The finance team lead, Rajat, must decide how to handle it. What should Rajat do?

Accepted Answer

C

Question 6

A consultant, Priya, is finalizing a report for a client. She realizes a key data source she used, while credible, was later publicly revised in a way that would modestly change one of her report's secondary recommendations, though not its main conclusion. The report is due in two hours and the client has not asked about this specific data source. What should Priya do?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 7

A hiring manager, Sanjay, is on a panel selecting between two final candidates for a role. One candidate is personally referred by a close friend and is well-qualified, though the panel's structured evaluation scores the other candidate marginally higher across the agreed criteria. What should Sanjay do?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 8

A product team is under pressure to ship a feature before a competitor's expected launch. The lead engineer, Tanvi, identifies a minor, low-probability edge-case bug that could cause a small data display error for a small fraction of users, fixable in three extra days that would mean missing the competitive launch window. What should Tanvi do?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 9

A university's late-submission policy states that assignments submitted after the deadline receive an automatic zero, with no stated exceptions. A professor, Dr. Kapoor, receives a submission four hours late from a student whose documented family emergency is independently verifiable through the university's own student services office. What should Dr. Kapoor do?

Accepted Answer

C

Practice — Situational & Ethical Analysis

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