How ethical are you? Close the door and lower the shades. It's just you and your conscience. Choose a response to each question; then, compare your scores with other respondents' to gauge your values in school, business, and life. Quiz by Jeffrey L. Seglin
		1.  An employee you manage tells you he's about to put a down payment on a house. You know he's going to be laid off before the month is out, but you've been told this information in strict confidence. He wants your advice on the stability of the company. You:  Tell him the company is doing just fine, and wish him well.  Tell him that he's about to be laid off.  Suggest he wait until the end of the month before making a decision.
		2.  During your annual review, your boss goes on and on about how wonderful a job you did on a particular project. You know that the bulk of the work was done by a colleague whose contributions have gone unnoticed. When the boss stops gushing, you:  Thank him, but let him know that your colleague was the chief contributor to the project.  Thank him, and let him know that it was a team effort.  Thank him, and smile.
		3.  You get the final exam back from your finance professor, and you notice that he's marked correct an answer that you got wrong. Revealing his error would mean the difference between an A- and a B+. You:  Tell the professor about his mistake.  Say nothing, figuring you shouldn't be penalized for his oversight.  Tell the professor, but make the case that he should still give you the higher grade since you could have said nothing.
		4.  A beleaguered classmate offers you a nice chunk of change if you'll write his final paper for him. You hear him out and then:  Politely decline.  Decline, but offer to edit his paper for a fee.  Turn him in.
		5.  You're the only one at the office working late. As you pass by the boss's office, you notice his e-mail is still up on his screen. You:  Pass on by. It's none of your business.  Pass on by. You might get caught.  Pop in, and read as much as you can.
		6.  Company policy is not to pay for in-room movies when you're on the road. Nevertheless, you call up a few films on the hotel set, and an $18 charge appears on your bill. You:  Decide not to request reimbursement for the $18, and instead pay for the movies out of your own pocket.  Choose not to request reimbursement for the movies, but add $18 to your expense account disguised as another expense.  Insist to the hotel front desk that you never saw the movies and you've been billed incorrectly.
		7.  Bids come in from three equally qualified vendors for a project you're managing on a tight budget. Your company has a policy against accepting gifts from vendors, but the high bidder has offered to slip you World Series tickets. You:  Give the job to the high bidder—telling yourself that the tickets are a sign he wants your business more than the others.  Give the job to the low bidder, and ignore the high bidder's ticket offer.  Give the job to the lowest bidder and tell the high bidder that company policy forbids you to take gifts.
		8.  You've waited in line for 10 minutes to buy coffee and a muffin. When you are a couple of blocks away, you realize that the clerk gave you change for $20 rather than for the $10 you gave him. You:  Go back to the coffee shop, and tell the clerk that he gave you too much change.  Wait until the next time you're at the coffee shop, and return the difference then.  Savor your coffee, muffin, and free $10.
		9.  A classmate tells you that she has been sexually harassed by someone in her study group. You:  Encourage her to report the harassment incident to the dean.  Report the harassment incident to the dean yourself.  Suggest that she switch into another study group.
		10.  You've done some independent consulting work during the year. When tax time rolls around you realize one client neglected to issue a 1099 form for the $4,500 he paid you. When you're calculating your taxes, you:  Report the $4,500.  Let your client know you haven't received a 1099 but that you're going to report the $4,500 to the IRS.  Don't report the $4,500.
		11.  Your company is seriously considering entering a new market, and you want to find out how much its competitors charge for their various goods and services. You:  Pose as a prospective customer and get as much pricing material as you can from the competitors.  Call the competitors, identify yourself, and see if they'll share pricing information with you.  Pay a graduate student to call the competitors and tell them that he'd like their pricing information for a research paper he's working on.
		12.  A highly talented member of the team you manage misses a critical meeting with your company's largest customer. As a result, you lose $100,000, half of the expected fee. Three days later, you discover that the employee has started drinking after having been sober for five years. You:  Fire him on the spot.  Get him to agree to go through rehab, and give him another chance.  Forget about it. He's too talented to lose, and in the long run he'll more than make up for this one lost customer.
		13.  You're taking a quiz to gauge how ethical you are. You:  Answer the questions honestly.  Figure out what the most ethical choice is and choose it, regardless of what you'd actually do.  Peek ahead at the scoring to see what it will take to ace the quiz.
		Thank you!