APPENDIX C: PRETEST

Answer the following questions for each scenario: A. Is this a common occurrence?  Y (Yes) or N (No). B. Does this scenario raise an ethical issue?  Y (Yes) or N (No). C. Is the action taken ethical?  Y (Yes) or N (No).	Com-mon?	Ethi-cal Issue?	Ethi-cal?
1. A Japanese engineer refuses to work with a woman, Puerto Rican engineer precisely because she is a woman.
2. A student buys copies of the exams for a class he will be taking next semester because he has a difficult schedule and needs all the help he can get.
3. An engineer accepts an offer from a vendor to pay her expenses to a conference where software that her company is interested in will be displayed.
4. Workers complain that a chemical they use is making them sick.  But the supervisor does nothing because he doesn't want to create problems with higher level management.
5. A student copies from a textbook his part of a group, written report project because it's the end of the semester and he has other, more important projects to turn in.
6. An industrial engineer uses information in her new job that she had obtained while working at another, previous job.
7. A supervisor asks a computer technician to copy software licensed to the technician's company for use by a client who does not have the license to use the software.
8. An employee sends emails to her relatives on company time using company resources.
9. A mechanical engineer spends time outside of work and at his home to develop a cheap muffler for electricity generators because he has a neighbor who couldn't sleep in the aftermath of Hurricane Georges because of his neighbors' noisy generators.
10. A student tells his professor that another student was copying from his exam during the test.